I arrived at the western trailhead to find no other cars in the new shopping mall-sized parking lot. Even more amazing the outhouse was open and in good shape. No one has shot, run over or blown it up for quite a while. The new bridge is in fine shape, but after that the trail gets worse. There's numerous mud-holes the whole length of the trail. At about 1 mile the trail is witness to the worst devastation I've seen. A large chunk of the hillside sloughed off wiping out several hundered feet of the trail. A fault line in the soil running above and along the trail appears to have opened and the ground fell away below it leaving a jumble of mud and 30 plus bowled-over trees. Short stretches of the trail can be seen in the mess tilted or twisted at odd angles, several feet lower than it once was. It looks like the aftermath of a mini-earthquake. Find your way around the mess by heading further up the hillside. Beyond it you'll find many more mud-holes and just a handful of blowdown. Where the trail skirts the river it becoming badly undermined and one short stretch has sunk (ca 2.5 miles). The eastern half of the trail is in good shape all the way up to road #56 and the Dingford Creek trailhead. Here I turned around and retraced my steps, but the trail heads further up the valley.