Spray Park — Sunday, Sep. 1, 2024

I made it up the road in my low-clearance Mazda in an hour, going slower than I probably needed to. There were plenty of cars at the Tolmie Peak trailhead when I passed at 8:15 but I didn't see anyone on the Spray Park trail for a good hour. A surprising number of the people I passed after that were not very friendly or didn't seem to know trail etiquette, as the last trip report says. Bugs were almost non-existent, never bad enough to break out the deet, and I got a few handfuls of ripe berries. The parking lot was a zoo when I got back around 1:30 - lots of boaters and swimmers in addition to the hikers. Spray Park itself was nearly empty, and beautiful.