Deer Lake — Saturday, Jun. 18, 2022

As described elsewhere, shortly after leaving Sol Duc Falls and entering the trail to Deer Lake the tread becomes narrow, rocky, rooty and continues steadily uphill. The trail was snow-free the entire way.  At Deer Lake, patches of snow appeared on the west side of the lake and continued into the forest. We stopped for lunch at a mostly-flooded campsite adjacent to the inlet of Canyon Creek. The bridge over Canyon Creek was covered beneath sloppy, wet snow and snow continued for as far as we could see.