Sol Duc Falls — Friday, Aug. 26, 2022

Hidden Lake is appropriately named. The forest has almost completely reclaimed the faint way trail with fallen trees, limbs, forest duff, young trees, salah, and blueberry bushes. I lost the trail several times along the way. At three or four points what seems to be an obvious trail heads downslope which is the way I went. Mistake! I found myself several hundred feet below the actual trail. The trail tends to stay high. There is a small amount of flagging on trees but most has deteriorated over the years. Blueberries and huckleberries are ripe. I didn't see any wildlife but fresh bear scat.