East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley — Saturday, May. 15, 1999

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West

With fond memories of this trail, same time a few years ago, we planned to hike to the five mile point where the trail crosses the Foss River and enjoy a great variety of wildflowers. Instead, we found occasional snow patches beginning at 2 1/2 miles or 2000 feet and extensive snow in the valley bottom at 3 miles, where we lost the trail and turned around due to relentless rain. Flowers were limited to many trillium and a lovely show of fairy slippers. Occasional blowdown was easy to traverse and the trail was surprisingly not muddy.