Umtanum Creek Canyon — Saturday, Apr. 27, 2019

A lovely hike on a cool windy spring day.  Lots of flowers and birds and a big variety of different forest and riparian habitats. And snakes (!) We saw 6 snakes, two of them were rattlesnakes, one of those we had to detour around.  The trail- It starts out nice and slowly gets worse until you give up.  I like bushwalking, so we got a long way before giving up about half way to Umtanum falls. I suppose you could make it all the way with sufficient determination, but it could very slow going.  The GiaGPS map is pretty good in telling you which side of the stream you should be on.  Or you can just try and turn back when it obviously wrong.  Expect to cross the stream a lot.  It was fine with boots- if you had sneakers you would have wet feet.   Enjoy!