May 17th Group Hike to Barclay Lake
May. 13th, 2003 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikMeet at 10:15 at Victor's Coffee (http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile?id=10758567) in Redmond.
Barclay Lake is a little farther out, and perhaps have shade longer than the last hike, but less steep. It's a rougher trail (if you have a tendency towards twisted ankles, make sure you're wearing supportive boots) through woods with some of the most impressive mosses, shelf fungus and contorted logs that look like trolls ought to be resident I've yet to see. There's a certain amount of scrambling over logs, some bridges which aren't that much more than logs, along a beautiful stream and at last to a mountain lake. It's around three miles round trip, with only about 100 feet of elevation gain.
Directions: Take Highway 2 eastbound, through Index, into the town of Baring. You will see a sign marked "Forest Service Road 6024 next left" and indeed, this is the left you want to take, for all that it crosses the train tracks and becomes a fairly piddling road. It then turns into a gravel track, which you follow for about 4.5 miles until you reach the trail head. When we were there last week, the road was a bit rough, but they were also working on removing the worst of the potholes, but we warned.
We will Northwest Forest Service Wilderness passes to park at this trail head -- I'll be buying one (my old one just expired) before the trip, and they can be purchased either as day or annual passes. (http://www.naturenw.org/press-fs050100.htm).
Barclay Lake is a little farther out, and perhaps have shade longer than the last hike, but less steep. It's a rougher trail (if you have a tendency towards twisted ankles, make sure you're wearing supportive boots) through woods with some of the most impressive mosses, shelf fungus and contorted logs that look like trolls ought to be resident I've yet to see. There's a certain amount of scrambling over logs, some bridges which aren't that much more than logs, along a beautiful stream and at last to a mountain lake. It's around three miles round trip, with only about 100 feet of elevation gain.
Directions: Take Highway 2 eastbound, through Index, into the town of Baring. You will see a sign marked "Forest Service Road 6024 next left" and indeed, this is the left you want to take, for all that it crosses the train tracks and becomes a fairly piddling road. It then turns into a gravel track, which you follow for about 4.5 miles until you reach the trail head. When we were there last week, the road was a bit rough, but they were also working on removing the worst of the potholes, but we warned.
We will Northwest Forest Service Wilderness passes to park at this trail head -- I'll be buying one (my old one just expired) before the trip, and they can be purchased either as day or annual passes. (http://www.naturenw.org/press-fs050100.htm).
