Ingalls Creek — Friday, May. 30, 2025

The trail smelled so, so good with the lupine, paintbrush and Solomon’s plume all blooming. We left Friday after work and hiked in 4 miles.  Had a lovely campsite by the creek. Saturday we had planned to hike in another 5 miles and build a nice fire to lounge by, but it seemed to get windier the further we hiked so we decided to turn around and hike back to our original campsite rather than having a cold and windy night. Trail is in great condition until between mile 8 and 9 there were 5 trees to navigate around, otherwise mostly clear for the first 8 miles.  Someone’s tent poles in a brownish/khaki bag are hanging on a burnt out tree between miles 8-9 on the left side of the trail hiking in; hopefully that person finds them. Even at max runoff right now we could stone hop across all the creek crossings and kept dry shoes. One party we met said they had gone up falls creek and the crossing was over knee deep, but doable. A good early season backpacking trip with not much elevation gain and scattered campsites every mile or so to give you lots of options. Felt like we had the place to ourselves too. We saw 3 groups Saturday (plus 2 tents but didn’t see the people) and only day hikers the last few miles as we hiked out Sunday.