Panjab Trail — Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2018

Eleven of my new best friends and I spent a week working here on our volunteer vacation. We removed countless logs and debris from the trail, and cut back brush in places as well. The first three miles are free of downed trees until the wind blows again. The entire trail is about five miles long, but time and the number of fallen trees did not allow us to complete the logout of the entire length. The snow I encounter about 3.5 miles from the trailhead on my hike on my day off would have presented a different level of challenge as well.

We experienced the variety of weather that spring in eastern Washington offers, from overnight lows in the 20s with snow falling as we woke up to sunny days in the 70s when the butterflies woke up and entertained us.

I never did make it to the top of the trail, but the first few miles are well trod by the crew on our way in and out every day, and most hikers will not notice the lack of trees to climb over or around until the reach the upper part where the fun begins, especially if the stream is still flowing down the trail from the spring.