Middle Fork Snoqualmie River — Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

The road up to the Middle Fork Trailhead is now open - and a very smooth drive after all that work and grading. The Middle Fork trail, however, has been decimated by some fairly severe washouts/avalanches. I would guesstimate from mile 2.0 to 3.0 (where the trail comes back down to the river) that there were three major washouts. The first one requires scrambling over downed timber and rocks while the next two are simply traversing the sand and boulder strewn new creek beds. There is one bridge out that has a safe detour around it. All are marked as of today with pink tape to help hikers navigate back to the main trail. At the approximate 3 mile mark we could not find a way through the brambles and mud to circumvent the eroded river bank or a particularly large downed tree. It was disappointing to turn around as we had planned to continue on the Dingsford trail.