10.88 miles of hiking • 3000' elevation gain •
We planned on hiking up to Larch Mountain from Multnomah Falls. But, we reached the area where the Larch Mountain trail breaks into the scree and it was raining, so we decided to just head over to Multnomah Basin instead. We got on the Franklin Ridge trail and then cut over on the path that goes to the Nesika Lodge area. We also detoured on to the ornament trail and then headed back down to the trail head. We spent a lot of time on the way back enjoying the creek. Lots of mushrooms and fungus bursting out everywhere, as well. We looked for the elusive hydnellum peckii, which we have been trying to find for some time now. We thought we had found it, but we think what we found were a type of bracket fungus with some similarity to hydnellum peckii.
