- Getting to the trail was a bit challenging our car was a Honda Civic which doesn’t have much clearance and the road is really bad if it needed to be graded. We started out before noon and hiked a lot. The first part of the trail was pretty interesting with a couple of massive caves the cathedral falls was outstanding! After we took the left fork that eventually leads to deadman’s lake, We did a lot of uphill which was pretty grinding the forest was dismal shaded with very little underbrush. We hiked until 630 or 7 and we’re so beat that we decided to bivouac alongside the trail about 2 miles shy of the lake. We saw very little wild life! The next day we arrived early at the lake it was beautiful. We were greeted by half a dozen camp robbers who evidently had been expecting us the previous night they were very impatient! After leaving the lake the trail was much more interesting a lot more underbrush including huckleberry bushes and and the berries were plentiful. We hiked till mid afternoon and set up camp near the lake which is described as hard to reach. Only one little trail offered a look at the lake it was surrounded by dense underbrush. But water was plentiful. The next day was pretty hard on our knees for the hike was mostly downhill. It was much prettier with lots of green. Call me as we were finishing our hike did we bump into someone a single hiker with two dogs. As we reach the end suddenly there were 6 to 10Hikers just getting ready to start out.
Type of Hike
OvernightTrail Conditions
Trail difficult/impossible to navigate:Trees down across trail,
Overgrown in places.
Road
Road recommended for high clearance onlyBugs
No bugsSnow
Snow free
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