8.6 miles of hiking • 2250' elevation gain •
This is a very obscure and unknown trail that I found one day several years ago when looking for the Skyway trail to Silver Star! The single parking spot is just down the road from the trail. We didn't see the sign posted next to the road, and found it thrown off to the side of the trail! The sign looked in excellent shape, but wasn't concreted. It didn't take long to see the obvious, that this area was designate to be logged!!! All the trees in the first region of the trail were surrounded with a red mark. Obviously, they aren't logging next to Snass Creek, but it's going to look awful. :( It turned out to be a foggy and cold day. At 3200ft, there was some occasional but very, very light snow flurries. Snass Creek is a very small stream-like waterway that is extremely easy to cross. The upper portion of the trail is on an old forest road. There are a couple of nice views, facing east, when the clouds aren't blocking it. You can make this into a 9-10 mile hike. Unfortunately, there was a single truck driving to the ridge to dumb a load of yard debris, but it all looked bio-degradeable! We have been to the spring before, and were somewhat unimpressed as there was discarded junk in it. :( It's still a nice hike and never crowded. You don't have long before the TH is logged out? The logging companies have cleared quite a few areas along Sunset Falls Rd., and it looks disgusting, but won't affect this hike. Active logging was going on today! :(
