I have bad memories of hiking that trail out of Cultus Creek campground up that hill. Sometime between the mid-80's and the late 90's, the trail that exists now was rerouted from the original path which-- I know this is hard to believe-- was even steeper.
After the trails I’ve experienced elsewhere in the Gifford Pinchot, it doesn’t surprise me at all that it used to be steeper. There’s some genuinely crazy stuff in that forest!
I have bad memories of hiking that trail out of Cultus Creek campground up that hill. Sometime between the mid-80's and the late 90's, the trail that exists now was rerouted from the original path which-- I know this is hard to believe-- was even steeper.
After the trails I’ve experienced elsewhere in the Gifford Pinchot, it doesn’t surprise me at all that it used to be steeper. There’s some genuinely crazy stuff in that forest!