We went out on a three night backpack. Overall, trail is in good shape thanks to all the hard work from the trail crews! We started at LeBar (much better place to start to avoid the early switchbacks), and turned around when the trail meets the river at about 8 miles. 

Lots of green, and some flowers! Loved the maidenhair ferns, and were lucky enough to find some coralroot orchids. Great option for someone looking for a less crowded hike through the forest

Day 2 of our work weekend with BackCountry Horsemen of Washington today's crew was all about working from the 100 access road (Camp Comfort) to the river crossing (4 miles one way). Getting to the 100 access road trailhead, all trees have been cleared off the road thanks to our crew. A horse trailer can now get to the 100 access trailhead without having to worry about trees in the road. Between Lebar Horsecamp and the 100 the road is a little rough, but nothing like the upper trailhead used to be  before that road graded last summer. 

The trail is in good condition all the way to the crossing. Our crew of 9 was slipt into two different groups, One group worked with power brushers, clearing the brush from Camp Comfort about 2.5 miles up trail from there. A group of 5 of us headed up to the switch back right before the river crossing. A very large  ceder tree took out most of the trail when it fell over the winter and it's rootball making it hard for hikers to get to the crossing. After our hike to the project site the real work began. Our task was to make it so you can get around the rootball. We removed roots from the big rootball, and widened the trail a little bit. We added some rock to the trail since the area is one big 30 foot wide seep in the hillside. You will have to walk through some of the seep, but we made it much easier for hikers, hikers, and even stock to get by. If you are on this trail with stock you'll be able to get by, except if you have paneers with gear on your stock animals. In just a few short hours we were able to transform this area of the trail. On our hike out, our packer for the weekend came with his stock to help lighten our load on the hike back to the cars taking the chainsaw, tools, and whatever else we didn't want to hike out with. On the way out, it was nice to see day hikers and backpackers heading to the crossing and enjoying some freshly redone sections of trails without trees down across it.

Over the course of just two short days, this trail has been transformed from winter clean up to being ready for hikers, bikers, and stock!

Grew Wolf Trail Crew in conjunction with Backcountry Horsemen of Washington worked on this trail the past weekend. Friday some of us drove from Lebar trailhead to the upper trail head on the other side of the river from the main portion of the lower South Fork Skokomish River.

The road has been paved all the way until you get to where it splits to go to Browns Creek. On the way youlkk pass some not so cool road featuers... a care that's been burned and left, and another car that's been dumped into the woods. Once you are on 23 after the slip, the road is graded, a little bit of some washboarding and once you are on 23-61 (the road to the upper trail head) there are some pretty good run-off ruts on the road right after either Cedar creek or Pine Creek (Sorry I foret which hairpin like turn it was after). With the road being graded, you don't want to go too fast on the road, since they did add a good amount of new gravel. Some not so cool road 

From here we split into two different groups, one group went up the upper trailhead to clear some downed trees. My group headed town from the upper trailhead to the Church Creek ford/ access trail. In our 2.5 mile hike, we cleared 22 trees out of the trail, we were able to improve our sawyer skills and enjoy the beautiful weather. Church Creek is not that bad to cross, one of our team members went through without bothering with water shoes, the water went over his 8inch high boots, others of us, didn't want to chance it, put on our water shoes rolled up our pant legs and walked acorss with no issues. There are logs that you can cross on, but we didn't want to do make it harded on ourselves carring chainsaws and other tools. Within a month I would suspect that the water in Church Creek will be down pretty low. The trail is in good condition. 

The crew that went up the upper portiong of the trail worked on the approach to the log that you have to walk aross about a mile up the trail. They added a few logs and cut out some others to make it very hiker friendly (See trip report https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report-2025-05-03.142919550488 for a photo from a hiker who enjoyed their hard work!) There is still a good sized blowdown on the upper trail which the crew did not get too.

We had a few crews working from LeBar trailhead up to the Church Creek Crossing from the lower portion of the trail. These crews were able to clear out all of the trees on that side of the trail on Friday! 

NOTE to Trail workers:  Great tree clearing work has been done on this trail but one large tree remains across the trail at about 3 miles. Hikers have been going up and over on the left side of the trail but if this could get cut out it would be great. The other downed tree has been made passable by hikers going to the left and around the root side.  Thanks Trail Workers!  

Followed another hiker's suggestion in a previous trip report and drove a little farther up the road to the Lebar trail head.  Much better warm up on this trail instead of the hefty switchbacks from the lower trail head. Vault toilet still NOT OPEN at lower trail head. Does it open at Memorial Day?

Perfectly sunny mild day for this hike.  Went about 4.84 miles in and over 4 real bridges (not small helper bridges or logs) and multiple small streams.  We were trying to get to the "Old Camp" and a secret trail down to the river for lunch spot.  Didn't find either and we searched pretty hard.  Decided to call it, have lunch and head back. Glorious hike with everything green and growing. Very nice trail for both distance and up and down leg work. 

Road: It's paved all the way to the trailhead.

Trail: The trail is in great shape. There were a handful of water crossings so waterproof shoes are helpful. I loved all of the old-growth forest and trillium! I don't know if I have ever seen so much trillium. It was a nice way to spend the day with many opportunities to sit and relax in solitude.