Melakwa Lake, Franklin Falls & Denny Creek — Tuesday, Jun. 5, 2012

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

So first, we hiked the first mile of the Melakwa Lake Trail. There is still snow in the parking lot, but not very deep so it will likely be melted in the next week or two. The first mile of the trail wasn't all that bad in terms of snow. There was patches of snow still and short sections with snow but with footprints to walk on...and there were long sections without snow, just a lot of water running across the trail. With the rain coming down today, it appeared the snow is melting away fairly rapidly. At the one mile mark, we reached the waterfall/creek where there's no bridge. This creek can be crossed when water is not running high...but with the rain coming down today and the water running high, we didn't want to chance it. We probably could have made it across okay, but not worth risking. Someone needs to place some rocks across this stream as stepping stones so that everyone can get across the stream more easily. After this we went over to Franklin Falls. Again in terms of snow it was just patches here and there...not too bad and where there was snow, footprints to walk in. The waterfall was really raging today with the rainfall and melting snow. Pretty easy hike. Franklin Falls, very impressive! Asahel Curtis is just a short 1/3-1/2 mile loop nature trail, and we did it at the end to add a tiny bit of mileage on...we saw a small section of waterfall and lots of tree names.