Cheese Rock and Split Rock Loop

We drove to Teanaway Community Forest, parking at the end of the West Fork Teanaway Road to hike to Cheese Rock and Split Rock making a loop out of some of the many trails here, including a side trail to Cheese Rock. Our route was 5.5 miles with 700 ft of overal gain. The snow levels are very low, with at least half of our route snow free. The first part of the trail had the most snow/ice coverage, starting with the bridge over the Teanaway River

View of Cheese Rock

Cloudy views at Cheese Rock

A short ways down the trail were a cluster of 4 large boulders, some had interesting columns, cracks and/or holes

View of distant snowy peaks from along the trail

Large boulder near Split Rock

Views of Split Rock from various angles

As we continued along the trail we had some views through the trees, the rock shelf near Cheese Rock

snowy enchantment peaks

zoom of a cloudy Mt Stuart and other Enchantment Peaks

Looking down on the Teanaway River

Dickerson Falls

After walking the Big Tree Trail this morning, I drove to Ueland Tree Farm to walk to Dickerson Falls, this was 2.2 miles with abou 220 ft of overall gain through a lovely forest. I took the forest trail to the junction with the forest road, a well maintained trail

Culvert along Dickerson Creek

Views along the short trail going down to Dickerson Falls

Dickerson Falls

Big Tree Trail

This morning I drove to the Rhododendron Preserve part of the Keta Legacy Foundation near Bremerton. I took the Big Tree Trail (1 mile round trip/150 ft loss/gain) through a beautiful forest. Some views through the forest heading down the switch backs.

Bridge over Wildcat Creek

The trail continues through the forest along Lost Creek

The Big Tree, cannot see the top due to branches in the way