Today I started at the Big Creek Campground and went up the Upper Big Loop trail to the Ellinor connector trail. I turned around just before the Lower Mount Ellinor Trailhead.
My snowshoes were dead weight on this hike, I lugged them all the way up and all the way back. The only snow I encountered was at 1700 feet and was only patchy. There was one fresh blow-down on the trail, I thought it was small enough for me to be able to move but it was not.
There is a very nice over look 3 miles and 1750 up from the Big Creek Campground and this was my turn around point today. The sun came out briefly and the view of Lake Cushman was nice. I brewed a cup of tea at the viewpoint and this combined with doing a shorter then normal hike gave me a nice hikers high that carried me all the way back to the car.
There were two other parties on the trail today and one of them had a WTA sticker on their car.
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