Larrabee State Park - Rock Trail — Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2017

Puget Sound and Islands > Bellingham Area

I hiked most of this today as a volunteer for a WTA Trail Work Party. The unpaved road up to the trailhead at the overlook is good with no potholes. We were in search of downed trees on the trail that had been reported by some great hikers to the Larrabbe Park workers and found a large double tree felled by winds immediately next to Boggards Bridge whose root ball completely obliterated the trail. Some of us worked on that and others of us attended to other things including a smaller tree across the trail farther down and widening out the trail in a couple of narrow spots. After the double tree was cut from the immense root ball, the root ball righted itself into its original spot (wish I could have seen that at the time) and we roughed in the repair for the trail. That's the first time I've been on the Rock Trail, and although I didn't make it all the way down (that'll be another day on my own), it's a really neat hike - phenomenal geology, and some lovely views. Just take a care for your knees - it's quite a climb up and down those stairs.