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Boulder River — Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway
Boulder River by Alexandre Kaspar

A great forest walk to multiple beautiful, roaring waterfalls. Beware that there are many downed trees along the trail, some of which require good mobility to pass. We stopped half a mile after the meditation falls where the trail disappeared completely below many downed trees. After hopping on some of them, I could imagine the path, but we didn't go further because we didn't expect things to be much better beyond that mini forest collapse.

We arrived at the trailhead at 8:50am as the first two cars. There were 4 more as we got back a bit after 1pm. The first road to the trailhead has quite a few potholes but it's good otherwise.

The trail was beautiful and in a reasonably good state given the recent wind and flooding damage. There were a few traces of snow along the trail but nothing that would stay more than a few days. It was certainly wet but I'd not expected the lovely moss to be visible everywhere along the trail otherwise.

Boulder River by Alexandre Kaspar
Boulder River by Alexandre Kaspar
Boulder River by Alexandre Kaspar
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