Wallace Falls - Lake Loop, Wallace Falls State Park — Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West

We hiked from the trail head on the Railroad grade to the DNR Road. On the DNR road we headed to Wallace Lake, then down Woody Trail to the Upper Wallace Falls. The weather was great but great while we were in the open on the DNR road. As we got into the trees closer to Wallace Lake there was a quite a bit of snow on the ground. As we headed down Woody Trail towards the Falls we thought we may have to figure out our own trail to get there. When you head from the Upper Falls towards Lake Wallace there is a sign warning hikers that the trail is not well marked going to Wallace Lake, and that only experienced people should attempt it. We got to the end of Woody Trail, and thought that we had to make our own trail, so we started trekking straight through the woods. When we had gotten about half way Jordan realized that we had missed the trail heading from Woody Trail towards the Upper Falls. We had misread the sign pointing towards the falls, and if we had just followed it we would have had an easily marked quarter mile trail to the falls. Contrary to what the sign says this is NOT a difficult trail, and should be as easily hiked as the section from the Middle Falls to the Upper Falls. Overall this was a very long, but very enjoyable hike. We got back to the car worn out but feeling good about the day.