North Fork Skokomish River, Staircase Rapids — Friday, Jul. 26, 2013

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Dad is 99% recovered from that nasty respiratory thing that he picked up on the cruise ship, but we still wanted something easy for our Friday hike. This trail was perfect. The Skokomish is VERY low right now. I hate to say it, but we really do need a little rain! Everything is looking DRY up there. Trail is in great shape, but there are some blowdowns past the junction to Flapjack Lakes. We hiked to the Madeleine Creek bridge and had lunch there. About 9-10 miles round-trip. Very few bugs, which was a refreshing change of pace after the nightmare that my husband and I endured at Sunrise on Monday.