Ingalls Creek — Friday, May. 24, 2024

Lovely trip up Ingalls Creek, a favorite in Spring (and other times too). Plenty of wildflowers blooming; Trillium by the hundreds. Trail is in really good shape for early season, with just a few blowdowns and some minor brush through the old burn area which starts around a mile past Falls Creek camp. Nothing that has to be climbed over or represents a significant detour off trail.

I only went as far as Annapurna Creek, around 9-ish miles from the trailhead. Last season there was quite a bit of blowdown just past that creek crossing, up into the forest. Hopefully that got cleared last season, or will be soon (Thanks WTA crews!!). This is one of the longer Cascades hikes that takes you along a stream/river from lowland forest all the way up to alpine splendor, and it's great to see it still gets maintained pretty well.

Only saw 4 other folks on Friday. Many, many more on Saturday going in as I hiked out.