8.8 miles of hiking • 1750' elevation gain •
This is an excellent loop trail and it was a perfect cloudy cool day for the hike! There's plenty of nice streams and a beautiful waterfall on the trail. A work party was replacing a bridge, so the main Gales Creek parking lot was full, and they were actively cutting wood. Besides this work party, only four other people were seen on the entire trail! We did see a couple of hunters leaving at the off-road bike course way up on Storey Burn road, but saw no hunters on the trail. It was a tad muddy from Hwy 6 going towards Gales Creek, but the rest of the trail was in excellent shape.
