Hoh River Trail to Blue Glacier — Friday, Aug. 5, 2022

The trail was is great shape overall. We did this as a 4 day 3 night trip. We got to the parking lot at 7am on Friday due to reports of terrible traffic. Stayed at Lewis meadows the first night and got to the campground around 2:30pm. There were plenty of spots, though the area filled up rapidly throughout the day. Second night was at glacier meadows. We did the ladder with full packs down and up. The worst part was scaling the ravine after the ladder. As a side note: please wait for others to descend the ladder before you climb up especially if they have full packs. There were two very rude hikers who did not ask if they could climb up while a member of our party was going down and it could have caused an injury. The ladder is much taller than it appears in pictures so be aware if heights are not your thing.

Bugs were the worst at glacier meadows but fine. We hiked both moraines and they were spectacular! We could not have asked for better weather. The meadow and flowers at the top were also beautiful. The last day we camped at happy four which was lovely along the river. We got out around 10:30am the last day (a Monday) and the visitor center and parking lot were very busy. So so many people. The line to get into the park when we drove out was long. We did not have to wait more than 5 minutes for road construction.