Taylor River - Otter Falls — Saturday, May. 8, 1999

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

Another wet and cold day in the Northwest found us on the Taylor River trail. I went for a hike on Saturday to check out the trail before the work party on Sunday. The trail is an old road bed that follows the river 6 miles to the trail junction to Snoqualmie Lake. There is an old rock slide about 4 miles in that requires a little scramble and lots of rock hopping over the stream on the other side of it. This needs a rerouting but is not hard to go through. There is another slide area not far past this one, too. The snow started about 3 miles and was steady for the last mile of our 6 mile walk. It was melting fast though, in spite of the occational snow falling. The trail up the the lake is in a creek bed and could be a long workproject. This trail would be a good canidate for a week long WTA work party since most of the damage is at 3 miles and beyond, and there is a lot of it. One of Sundays volunteers suggested getting the Forest Service to drive us a couple of miles in so we could work on more of these projects. The river is very pretty and it is an easy hike. My book said 500 feet gain for 6 miles. The weatherman also said sun. So, who can you believe these days''''