Due to having to move campground locations we started very late at about 5:30pm. The trail parking area was full so we joined others parking along the highway on the other side of the road. Hordes of hikers were making their way down the trail as we went up so by the time we arrived at the viewpoints there were only a handful of people still there. The well maintained trail generally goes up and up but at a gentle pace; lots of kids and grandparents enjoying the day.
The Gorge dam spillway was open so the normally dry river bed from there to the powerhouse in Newhalem was a spectacular, raging torrent. Could salmon actually swim upstream against that wild flow? It would be a very tough go.
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