It is a little bit of a long drive to get to the trail head coming from the mouth of the Methow River but worth it. The paved road is in great shape, the gravel, dirt road isn't really that bad, I have drove on worse. With care you can miss most of the large potholes, a few sections of fairly rough rock. But if you have been to Harts pass this seems fairly tame. By the time we made it to the trail head it was close to 9 AM, we left the house at 5:30 AM. There was about 25 cars in the parking area and starting to narrow the road down with cars parked on both sides. Most of them appeared to have been there all night. The trail is in great shape, very well maintained, wide and a beautifully maintained forest. The blueberry plants were very lush and very picked over, some of the tallest blueberry plants I have saw in a long time, waist high in some areas. We spotted 2 goats through one of the clearings on the far mountain, a doe followed us up the
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