Fletcher Canyon — Saturday, Apr. 23, 2016

Olympic Peninsula > Pacific Coast

My faithful canine hiking companion and I decided to hike this trail on our way home from the annual beach cleanup at Kalaloch. The trail is steep and rough, as described, but so worth the effort. The trees down across the trail are large and I had to crawl under most. The trail is in desperate need of some good maintenance as it is becoming overgrown in places, and is easily lost in others. Such a pretty area - it would be sad to see this trail fade into obscurity. One possible route took us down to the bank of the creek, but a washout there prohibited us from going any further that direction. We turned around and followed another possible route that carried us a bit further into the canyon. This dead-ended at a sizeable boulder that we couldn't figure out how to circumnavigate. We never found the footlog, nor did we end up within sight of the waterfall (beyond a glimpse). According to my gps, we actually overshot it a bit. I fully intend to return and hike this one again!