Sunday, November 20, 2016

2016.11.20. Wallace Falls state park

11/20, Sunday. My first trip to this nice state park 1.5 hours from Seattle. Light rain, plenty cars in the big parking lot, under power lines which emitted zapping sound. Toilet with running water. Posters with mushroom and animals.

Trail follows power line for a bit, then into the woods. The lower trail is by Wallace River, not always have views, but often have water sound. The little Small Falls loop isn't worth the short detour. 1.5 miles to a shelter by the Lower Falls. 2 picnic tables and plenty benches to sit out of the rain. No view from inside of the shelter, but just steps out of the shelter, you can see a good size waterfall, and a cascade dropping out of the view. 0.5 mile later is Middle Falls. It's the prettiest, double tiered. A few minutes higher, more short cascades by the trail. Then a good viewpoint of the valley. Back in the woods for another 1/2 mile, that's the Upper Falls, tall and double tiered. Trail continues up with blue diamonds on trees. We did follow it a bit.

I found only 1 chanterelle. A few oyster mushroom on dead logs. Dried them later in the evening.