What happens when you hike in January in Western Washington? You get wet, of course! We definitely encountered rain on our hike at Dosewallips (pronounced doe-see-wall-ups per a local woman) State Park today along with sun, hail, snow & wind. It was kind of a crazy weather day!
We hiked both the Steam Donkey Trail and the Maple Valley Trail which went down to the Dosewallips River. Some highlights of the day: we saw 2 bald eagles, some large animal tracks (per the WTA description it appears there is an elk herd that resides there) and a really gorgeous waterfall (Rocky Brook Falls). It was a small group, just me, Corey, Brenda & Pace, but we had a ton of fun!
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| Corey & Pace in the car. Poor Pace got a bit car sick on the ride up there on all those windy roads & threw up all over Corey's sweatshirt. Luckily Brenda had a spare fleece jacket in the car. |
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| Brenda & Pace on the first of several bridges we crossed. |
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| Corey, Pace & Susan on the 2nd bridge of the day. |
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| Corey & Brenda |
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| Some of the original train tracks. |
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| Corey with some more old railroad items. |
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| The top of a waterfall that we encountered. |
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| The waterfall above was part of this Phantom Creek. |
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| Peekaboo view of the Dosewallips River. |
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| Corey next to some really cool roots on this tree. |
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| Look closely and you will see the 2 bald eagles right in the upper middle of the picture on a branch. |
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| We walked right down to the river and found some oyster & clam shells. |
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| Corey & I next to a really cool tree. How did it grow like that? |
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| This is the Rocky Brook below the falls. |
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| We were all in awe of these falls. They were huge! And you could get up really close to it. |
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| Group photo: Susan, Corey, Brenda & Pace. |
