Umtanum Creek Canyon — Friday, Mar. 11, 2022

A beautiful area with lots to experience. Some grand old Ponderosa Pines that survived the fire, beaver dams, Western Bluebirds and some sage buttercup just starting. The trail needs some major clearing - my guess is that is because it’s been closed when they built the new bridge - lots of brush that hasn’t leafed out. It might be worse in a few weeks - felt like bushwhacking at times.  It was hard to know where the trail was at times, and other times multiple spurs were confusing. All the talk about stream crossings is confusing since there is a trail that avoids this. And in this area trail location is very confusing. One of us crossed, they other went around yet we were able to reconnect. I hope WTA can do some work here!