East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley — Saturday, Jun. 1, 2013

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West

Decided to do an overnight in Necklace valley. I always get bored for the first 5 miles of the trail. After 5 mile camp, the trail turns up and keeps going. All the bridges are in good shape but the last one near the valley, the hand rail is not usable and about to fall into the river. At least the bridge is in good shape. we hit patchy snow about 3400 feet but still mostly bare. After the last bridge, it was mostly solid snow with a few patches of dirt showing. This is about 3800 - 3900 feet. The valley is solid snow still. We only went to Jade lake which is the first one but we were tired and it was about 4 pm and we were getting hungry. In all it was a good, some wildflowers, 2 owls making noise at night, a black bear was running down the road before the trailhead but then turned into the woods and never saw it again. Camping was great because we were the only ones in the valley. Some blowdowns but not hard to get over, parts of the trail have snow melt running down them. A lot of water on the trail so you won't get thirsty.