Whites Creek Trail completed – now just to hike the short spur trail back to the parking lot.
May 2, 2021
Backpacking 04-30-2021
May 2, 2021
The final crossing of Whites Creek.
May 2, 2021
Fiddler Spring – I took a quick detour to checkout the spring and top up my water. +1
May 2, 2021
Hello li’l buddy – It’s probably as fast on the trail as I am.
May 2, 2021
Looking back along Whites Creek Trail – This is fairly typical of the trail conditions I encountered. Note the recently cut deadfalls. At this point, it started to rain, and it carried on raining for the next four hours.
May 2, 2021
Looking into Whites Creek Cave – No I didn’t go in. I took this picture through the grill using my headlamp at full brightness to light up the cave. Had I been thinking, I would have set the camera on my mini tripod and gone for a longer exposure and some light painting. There’s nothing to give the picture any feeling of scale. Let’s just say, “Pretty big.”
May 2, 2021
Whites Creek Cave. +1
May 2, 2021
Looking back down the trail – the trail turns up the hill here (you can just about make it out in this picture). Most people (including me) appear to miss this. The trail marker is not particularly helpful either.
May 2, 2021
Heading up towards Whites Creek Cave – the trail is narrow and the drop-off steep. It appears that most people miss where the trail turns left up the hill to the cave.
May 2, 2021
Back on the Whites Creek Trail – Whites Creek Float Camp spur trail (branching right in the foreground). Time to head back to the trailhead, seven and-a-half miles of hiking and lots of rain in my future.
May 2, 2021
‘eek Float Camp – signs that there has not been a lot of trail maintenance for a while.
May 2, 2021
Crossing Whites Creek – You have to cross Whites Creek to get back to the main Whites Creek Trail. It’s not very obvious in this picture (or in reality), but the trail climbs up the bank just to the right of the tree on the left side of the frame.
May 2, 2021
Change of Plan (And an unloved wilderness registration point) – My original plan for today was to hike part of the southern loop of the Whites Creek Trail and stop for the night near one of the big pools that form on Whites Creek. Instead I’m heading home. One-minute read
May 1, 2021
Time for a nice cup of hot chocolate – Cadbury’s Hot Chocolate, of course. +1
May 1, 2021
I have a picnic table and a grill – When I found this empty float campsite with a picnic table I knew I’d found my spot for the night. +1
May 1, 2021
Path from the put-in to the float camp.
May 1, 2021
Whites Creek at the Whites Creek Float Camp – Whites Creek Float Camp looks to be abandoned, but I’m guessing it is just showing a lack of TLC brought on by a year of neglect because of COVID-19. +2
May 1, 2021
Caves on Whites Creek.
May 1, 2021
Eleven Point (Wild and Scenic) River – This is pretty much the only overlook in the entire 20-mile Whites Creek Trail. The trail here is very narrow and rough with a 100+ft. drop-off on one side. +1
May 1, 2021
This is not the trail you are looking for… You would think (and I and apparently, many, many others have), that the trail goes straight on here. Not so. Look carefully and there’s the trail, two feet in front of the sign on the left going up the hill. +1