Ingalls Creek — Saturday, Apr. 19, 2025

Decided on Ingalls Creek as a one night backpacking trip, we started our day late, getting to the trailhead at 4:00pm, knowing that there are a variety of sites along the trail we set out with the plan to get to the fire pit site 5.5 miles in. The first 3 miles were beautiful, hiking through wildflowers next the rushing and powerful Ingalls creek, passing a variety of amazing campsites along the edge of the water (spoiler alert we wish we would have picked one of these sites). At around 3 miles in we started to encounter some sections of huge puddles on the trail, not impassable, then the sections of snow came. The Snow on the trail is intermittent but consistent, with the depth being between 1 and 3 feet covering the trail at times. As we continued our hike through the snow, we noticed horse prints and the occasional bobcat print. We arrived at camp as the sun was setting, and with the snow as it was wished that we had chosen one of the sites within the first 3 miles. But it was beautiful and the fast flowing water made for excellent white noise while we slept!