Duckabush River — Friday, Jul. 24, 1998

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Anderson Pass Duckabush Main Fork Dosewallips River O'Neil Pass - The Olympics - Three of us left Duckabush trailhead Thursday 8am. Spent the first night at 10Mile camp and made Upper Duckabush Camp at 1:00pm the next day. Saw only 2 parties on all of Duckabush. The trail is in great shape. Saw weasels and a little bear sign. It was too dreary and buggy at Upper Duck so we headed uphill to Marmot Lake Friday afternoon. It was a bit hot, and brought the total elevation gain for the day to 3300 feet, but a swim in Marmot Lake and spending the night at lovely Lake Lacrosse made it well worth it. Saw two bear in the basin and heard coyotes nearby at night. The only other party up there awoke that morning to elk bugling in their camp. Beautiful place. Saturday morning we abandoned our plan to hike back down the Duck to our car. Instead we headed out O'Neil Pass for the trip along the southern rim of Enchanted Valley to Anderson Pass. Wildflowers were intoxicating and we saw a BIG bear (and sign of plenty more.) Trail from O'Neil to junction is in great shape, no snow to speak of. Only saw two people headed up to O'Neil. Cleared Anderson Pass in sweltering heat around 4pm and headed down the Dosewallips to Honeymoon Meadows. Saw more folks in the first hour on the Dose trail than we did the whole 3 previous days. Left Honeymoon Sunday morning and got to the trailhead at 11am and hitched a ride back to the car. Dose trail in great shape. This is a nice route. 44 miles and about 6800 feet all together. StallingsFamily@worldnet.att.net