11.5 miles of hiking • 2250' elevation gain • 2 nights
The forecast told me the rain would cease after 11am. I got to the TH for Crabtree Valley at 1pm and it was still raining hard. I took the short hike to nearby Crabtree mountain instead. Logging road with intermittent snow drifts. The rain did stop, but the trees kept on with their drip drip drip. Camped nearby and awoke to sunny skies next day.
Lots of old growth all around this area. As you hike down into the valley, you look into the canopy of the trees rising up from below. I wandered the established trail around the lake, then set off on a deteriorating hidden logging road towards King Tut. It petered out after a mile, and then there was postholing in soft drifts, bushwacking through wet shrubs, and stream crossing-my kind of fun just to hug a tree. Got soaked again.
