Palouse to Cascades Trail - Easton — Saturday, May. 20, 2023

This hike wasn’t really from Easton. I started on the Stampede Pass road. You get off I-90 at Exit 62 and go south. The trail crosses the road in a mile or so. You have to go past the Snopark and past the Lost Lake road a bit. The PTC trail is then obvious and there is lots of room to park, although this isn’t an official PTC TH. I went west for a couple of miles and at the intersection with the Lost Lake Trail I turned left and walked up that road a ways. Meadow Creek is right there and it is roaring at this time. There are trillium here and there in the woods on the side of the trail. There were a lot of bikes on the trail today. There was even a Boy Scout troop of about 30 biking towards the east. They told me they had started at Easton Lake State Park and ridden west through the tunnel and then turned around to come back. There are not many mountain views on the section I hiked. For a while you can see  Silver Peak straight ahead. Other than that, it’s not a big  view hike. For days now, it’s been uncommonly hot in Upper Kittitas County for May, and every day we’ve had thunderstorms, sometimes with pouring rain, in the afternoon. Feels like August in May.