Flapjack Lakes via North Fork Skokomish River — Saturday, Jun. 25, 2022

Great trip up to Flapjack Lakes. The drive to Staircase is really smooth right now with few potholes on the gravel road. Any vehicle should be fine. From Staircase, it's a completely flat 3-4 mile hike to Spike Camp. There were no permits left for Flapjack Lakes so we got one for Spike Camp. The campground is fairly small and doesn't have much going on. Just a spot to camp in the woods. There's a toilet and bear wire. We set up camp and set out to Flapjack lakes which is pretty steep. Another 4 miles or so later and we got to the lakes. Super beautiful. I definitely recommend walking around the lakes. There's a cool giant rock formation at the north end of the lake you can swim to and jump off of. Water is freezing though. Still a few patches of snow around the lake. The trail is completely snow free though. We didn't try to go up to Glady's divide but we ran into people that tried and turned around because of the snow conditions up there. I'd say the hike is a solid 4 stars. Lakes are great and pretty and the Olympic forest is always nice but there aren't many great viewpoints looking down at other mountains.