Bedal Basin — Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019

The road to to the Bedal Basin trail is narrow and rough. I would advise a higher clearance vehicle with four wheel drive if you decide to go up there.

The trail is bushy, overgrown, and difficult to follow sometimes. Pink ribbons have been tied to trees at major creek crossings showing you were to cross, and they've been tied to trees marking the route up the gully to the basin.

If you are attempting to follow the map on your Gaia GPS app, or the 7.5' USGS map from Caltopo, be advised that the route these maps show is wrong. You'll want to stay on the right hand side of the gully and follow the ribbons.

We followed the map, which had us cross back over to the left side of the gully, and then we bushwhacked our way up to where the map said the trail ended -- and then we went little way past that.

I wouldn't recommend going the way we went. We made it to a boulder field at the base of the mountain, but we were north of the actual basin. So the moral of the story is make sure you have an accurate map or GPS track to follow.

There were no views because it was foggy and snowing like crazy. It was raining at the trail head, but started snowing fairly hard once we got above above 4,000 feet. We stopped at about 4,700 feet and there was around ten inches of snow on the ground.

We didn't see anyone else on the trail, and it doesn't look like this trail gets a whole lot of use.