Skykomish River

... balm especially as I spent the 55 miles of so today following a river all the way upstream and arrived 6 hours or so later in Skykomish a tiny town at the foot of a Mountain, which I will have to climb tomorrow! I arrived and felt exhausted, my lungs ...

... We get a good pace going and make it to the trailhead by 5:30pm. We rest our feet for a little while, then work on catching a ride to Skykomish. In 20 minutes, we are picked up by Jim in a tow truck. He ends up letting us camp in his back yard. As we are ...

... lovely weather since leaving Spokane and it's warming up nicely. From Wilbur we went to see Grand Coulee Dam, on the Columbia river. It's an awesome structure a mile across, 450ft thick at the base and 550ft high (3x more concrete than the Hoover Dam). ...

... chance of a campsite for Friday, Saturday and Sunday was grim.  The camp host, however, informed us that Beckler River Campground, six miles down the highway had two sites still available that were not on the reservation system but she recommended ...