Our first hike of the weekend was here to Beacon Rock, my husband had never been. We parked on the west side and started on the trail that leads towards the state park itself then cut across on an established boot path to meet the regular trail at the first bridge.
I love this trail for the intricate twist of switchbacks used to create a trail up the rock face, a mix of wood, steel piping and patterned iron fencing. You can almost imagine what it must have been like to have been some of the first people to climb it without the use of ropes. It reminds you of such trails as the West Rim to Angel’s Landing. Again, I was glad to be doing it after the early morning frost and ice had melted, those wood boardwalks would be quite slick otherwise.
GAIA had us topping out at 812 feet and we had the interesting phenomena that looking west we had sun and looking east we had darker skies. Clearly we would be hiking with the threat of rain later on today.
Our total distance was 1.4 miles, it is always fun to see the zigzag design the track makes for this hike!
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