Big Creek — Friday, Jul. 13, 2007

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Long, hot, humid, and muggy made this trek much harder than it should have been given the 8 mile distance. Pick a more typical day with some of the usual rainforest drizzle, and avoid overheating as badly as I did! There were maybe half a dozen trees across the trail, but nothing a bit of scrambling can't take care of. Three quarters of a mile in (before the branch spur to Irely Lake) the walkway over a swampy section is gone. There are some planks resting across the water, so you can get across dry with a bit of scrambling, but good balance, waterproof boots, and poles definitely helped! Would be a nasty dank muddy place to fall in.