17 miles of hiking • 4000' elevation gain •
After all the trailwork done by mcds up on Bell Creek, we just had to go take a look for ourselves. What an amazing transformation this trail has undergone! It's so walkable now, as to not even seen at all to be the same one I hiked just a couple months ago. Not only were there very few trees to clamber over, under or around, but even the normal creekbed that passes for a trail in winter had dried up with a result of no wet feet at all. Oh, and the "PortlandHikers Effect" was in full-force, as we passed at least a half-dozen groups on a trail where solitude was all but guaranteed for (apparently) many years now. The landslide below Triple Falls is passable, but might be a problem when wet. Very steep, and probably increasingly muddy. Otherwise, the repair seems very well done.
