A misty, rainy morning on Lake Quinault. I had no idea what trail to take, so I tried asking around at the motel and also the cafe where I ate breakfast. I got…
Merriman Falls along the road past the Southeast corner of the lake.
Bunch Falls a little farther down the road. Green and gorgeous.
The falls draining into Quinault River on the other side of the road.
Looking up the Quinault River.
Made it to the trailhead. I had actually contemplated doing the Pony Bridge trail, but the road leaving the lake quickly turned into an unmaintained, potholed…
Heading up the trail. It's very similar to the Hoh Rain Forest except with much less traffic and much less maintained.
Epic singletrack through the temperate rainforest.
Entering the Colonel Bob Wilderness.
Already starting to hit snow patches.
Looking down at the stream with patches of snow amongst the cascades.
The snow is getting heavier on the trail, and I seem to have picked-up a pawed friend. Earlier on there were boot prints, presumably from the person on the…
The epic singletrack is starting to get slick with increasing snow cover. And my camera is starting to fog-up with condensation from the increasingly heavy…
At this point, the trail is starting to dissapear, but the paw prints that I've been following keep on going. Even when there's no perceptible trail at all, the…
And the tracks continue, even through areas of treefall, heavy snow, and across creeks. The only explanation I can think of is that the fox is so used to…
Climbing up through the snowy rainforest.
On top of the ridge and into a creek bed with heavy snow. Yet the paw path continues...
A beautiful creek, fairly wide, and flowing fast. With no apparent easy way across.
A snow covered log seems to be the only way across. That can't possibly be an intentional part of the trail? There is at least 5 or 6 inches of snow stacked-up…
It's hard to see in the picture, but sure enough the damn paw prints go straight across the log. That fox hasn't led me astray this whole time, so I decide to…