This was an awesome hike its grueling and hard and you will get very dirty, the maintained trail is actually pretty good minus all people who have gone off trail thus damaging it🙃. It is steep and switch backy but i never thought it was particularly crazy for washington just not a tourist style trail.
The sketchiest part is the unmaintained trail with multiple rope sections after the trail offically ends. I added some pictures that hopefully give a decent idea of what youre in for.
The rope areas are not extremely hard but definitely more dangeroues then your average hiker is probably used to so please use best judgement and always think about going back down! Its easy to go up it, it is alot scarier to go back down and a few folks were held up cause they got scared.
The ropes them selves are in pretty suspect condition there are multiple ropes that have been either desheathed or damaged in some noticable manner i would NOT trust them and use them only as you have to, also Definitely watch what you put your weight on but more then that please be patient when other people are on the ropes putting 3+ peoples weight on these lines is reckless for no real reason.
Once you have past the roped area youll find your self at the summit with a bit of a scramble to go over its easy terrain kinda hands and feet needed but very exposed and the dirtyness of the area causes it to be slippery make sure you have shoes with good traction!
I highly suggest having nice shoes and trekking poles for the way back down as even the well maintained trail is slippery with the dry dirt and generally choss of the area.
Finally this trail was WAYYY more popular on a tuesdsy at 2pm then i thought it would be for how hard and spooky it can be at times becareful who is infront of you and avoid people who are being dangerous. (I had to tell "adults" to not throw rocks off the side of the cliff) other then that this is a 5 star hike.
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