The ford at the start was knee high but pretty doable, a few smaller downed trees but easy to navigate. Pretty uneventful until you hit the juniper ridge junction. That trail from there has been throughly ripped to hell by dirtbikes, but is still pretty passable. When we got to the turns, we found the skeeters. I took a swat with my hand that caught more than a dozen, there were literal clouds. A few sprays of bug dope and they mostly run off, but holy hell did they give us a whooping before that. Pretty nice views of dark mountain and the tarns were looking like the just recently melted out.
The dirtbike trail goes directly through a bunch of headwaters streams that have a good population of frogs and aquatic insects, not sure who figured that to be a good idea.
Comments