East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley — Friday, Jun. 10, 2005

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West

We hiked up the Necklace Valley trail and spent the night at Jade Lake. Trail is in great shape and an easy ~flat walk up until the ~5 mile point at the big bridge crossing. After that, the steepness of the trail caused quite a lot of water on trail (a creek, really!) intermittently from miles 6 - 8. You may know that the trail is in pretty nasty shape in those last few miles, anyway. It snowed at night, leaving almost an inch, and we got up very early and left Jade Lake for a snowy/changing to rainy hike in, until descending to ~3500 ft where it was light fog/drizzle and sunbreaks. No bugs (maybe b/c of rain). Pretty muddy, though! There is one big blowdown that someone else already noted in a previous report, right before the big bridge crossing.