Ingalls Creek — Monday, May. 21, 2001

Central Cascades > Blewett Pass

Azure colored skies, temperature in the low eighties. Snowless, dry trail- up to Falls Creek turn-off point, and according to a forest crew quite a bit beyond - discounting the half a dozen or so shallow creeks to be crossed. Can be done in tennis shoes ! A field of lupines with their fragrant perfume right at the onset. Calypsos hidden on the forest floor. Glacier lilies, spring beauties. Large stretches of Trillium along the trail between 2800- 3200 feet. Just go there, and don't forget to cool off, if necessary, at the base of a boulder field, at about 2600 feet, with large car-sized boulders in front off it. You come out of a temperature in the eighties and suddenly you feel like walking into a freezer. It felt very much like standing in front of the Big Four Ice Caves off the Mountain Loop Highway. I haven't seen anyone commenting about this phenomenon ''