Went out to the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River area to hike to two waterfalls along the Taylor River: Big Creek Falls and Otter Falls. Due to a couple of washouts in the road before the trailhead, we parked about 0.5 mile away. Today's hike was 12.5 miles with about 600 ft of elevation gain.
This is a nice walk in the forest with several streams rushing down the hillside to Taylor River.
Some of the creeks had stones or logs to walk over while a couple had bridges.
None of the fords seemed treacherous
About 5 miles along the trail we ran in to some snow on the trail. The snow was soft and traction was not needed.
There are some lovely huge boulders along this trail.
Big Creek Falls (238 ft) can be seen from the bridge on the trail.
After viewing Big Creek Falls we returned about a 1/4 mile back along the trail for the stone arrow pointing to the boot track that leads up to Lipsy Lake and Otter Falls.
Otter Falls (1200ft)
The view opposite Otter Falls.
This little drop off one of the creeks caught my eye on the hike back.
We saw some skunk cabbage and trillium in bloom along the trail along with these fun fungi:
Big Creek Falls (238 ft) can be seen from the bridge on the trail.
This little drop off one of the creeks caught my eye on the hike back.
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