A friend and I went on a nice overnight backpacking trip along the Bogachiel over memorial day weekend. We ended up doing 10 miles each day, out and back, spending the night at Flapjack camp.
The trail was fairly muddy, especially the two to three miles after the fork with the South Bank Trail, which is almost entirely missing. There's two sections with EXTREMELY slippery rocks with moss again towards the end of the trail. I believe there was one to two blow downs, which is to be expected this early in the season. Nothing insurmountable. There's one bushwack section towards the middle of the trail marked by ribbons. Keep in mind later in the year when Devils Club starts sprouting!
GNATS! GNATS! GNATS! tons of them at Flapjack campground.
For wildlife, we saw plenty of beetles, some snakes, lizards, a single salamander and a herd of elf (they seem to love the river! keep an eye whenever the trail passes by it).
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