This was a Mountaineers Scouting trip to see what needed to be worked on to improve/and maintain the trail. We started on the Skokomish (east) side of the trail. The trail was in pretty good condition with just a few small trees down (easily to climb over) for the first 1.5 miles. However, on arriving to the decommissioned road the snow became quite thick and while passable slowed us down and made it difficult to see what repair work needed to be done. We turned around here since it would have been impossible to see what other work needed to be done.
The wildflowers were wonderful. We saw blooming wild ginger, carpets of avalanche lilies (so you know that the snow has just melted) - and I mean carpets!, alpine white marsh marigolds, fairyslippers orchids, tiger lilies, trillium (yes, they were still blooming in June! - what does that tell your?) and I am probably forgetting some so forgive me.
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