Duckabush River — Thursday, Mar. 5, 1998

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Friday I had off from work and decided to try the Duckabush for an overnighter. The weather was supposed to hold until Saturday (3/7) and it did. The road to the trailhead has potholes but I have seen alot worse and its only dirt for about 2.5 miles. The trail is in good shape with only a few blowdowns. I hiked to FiveMile Camp and only saw dayhikers from the Port Ludlow Hiking Club who were enjoying the view of snow-capped peaks from the lower of two view points on Big Hump. There are no big stream crossings to talk of although in the event of big rain there would be 1 or 2. Fivemile Camp is really nice, by the river and pretty clean except for the big rock where people have made a fire and left it black. I hiked a little further up the trail from camp past a couple of other good camps. There was no snow anywhere along the entire length of the 6 miles that I hiked. Noel