Hears Different Drummer: Wonderland trail 2019 Day six Golden lakes camp to Klapatche park camp

Monday, September 2, 2019

Wonderland trail 2019 Day six Golden lakes camp to Klapatche park camp

The next day dawned pretty much the same as it had last year at Golden lakes. Foggy and damp. Not really raining this year but very dewy.

No great views either.

At the Patrol cabin.

We entered the Silver forest and continued walking in the fog. Many trees have grown since the first time we were here in 1975, at that time it was mostly just "silver looking" old bleached snags from a past fire that were on this ridge. That and many blueberry bushes, all has changed now

The trail began to descend into a green forest trail.

Another bridge still in disrepair.

After crossing the north Puyallup river and bridge it was time to begin our climb up to Klapatche park.

I loved this large root above the trail.

Heart Rock on the trail.

Last year this section of the trail was horrible, made worse by the hard rain that fell on us all the way to camp. This year we were excited to see some actual trail maintenance along the side of the trail.

A waterfall flowing down the hillside across the way from us.

The trimmed trail didn't last long, we were soon in thick vegetation just like last year. The trail is fairly steep and narrow in this section so not being able to see the trail and where our feet are was a bit unnerving at times.

Some flowers were in bloom, but hard to see with the fog.

We made it to Klapatche park and could barely make out Aurora lake, it was so foggy.

Happily for us it wasn't raining or too cold at Klapatche park this year. The lake had more water in it and wasn't orange as it was last year. I felt much better about drinking it this year. We always filter and boil our cooking water, so we're fine but last year it just looked horrible.