Big Creek — Thursday, Mar. 9, 2006

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

This is really a report for the upper big creek loop and the Ellinor Connector trail. Six inches of snow at the junction of the connector trail. I made it about a mile up the the Ellinor connector trail and had to turn back because even with my snowshoes I was sinking too much and it was too much work. I was sinking almost to my knees with my 22 inch snowshoes on. It's 6 miles to the summit of Ellinor from the Big Creek Campground. That is something to keep in mind when you can not drive your car to the lower Ellinor Trailhead due to snow. Upper Big Creek Loop had six inches of snow at the most and it was meltin fast.