Yesterday Sandy, Christopher, and I went to Otter Falls and Big Creek Falls, up the Snoqualmie Lake Trail. It was an easy 10 mile round trip that took us about 4 hours, including the lunch break and such.
The trail is an old logging road that is being reclaimed by the forest. It had a nice gentle grade and was wide enough to walk three across for god portions of it.
The first falls we came to were small, but you got to cross in front of them on this really cool foot bridge. The logs that are supporting this bridge are HUGE!
The next falls we got to, at the 5-mile mark, are the Big Creek Falls and were bigger and had a lot more water coming down them. The rocks were mostly smooth, and the water had a really cool sheeting effect over the rocks. The bridge is a lot more modern too.
We sat on the curb and looked at our feet.
The we got up, turned around and walked about a 1/4-mile back down to the "non-trail" that is the trail up to a tiny lake and Otter Falls. This was the coolest of the three falls for sure.
It's at least a couple of hundred feet to the top of Otter Falls.
By the time we got out, we were all hungry and kind of tired. We ended up stopping at a bar and grill in North Bend for dinner. We tried to find a pizza place, but the only one we saw was closed...oh well. We were back in plenty of time to chill around the house before Monday snuck up on us. Happy Monday! Yeah, right...
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