Middle Fork Snoqualmie Trail Run July 3rd

Rainy weather canceled our plan to take Bill out in the canoe today. So I went ahead and did the run I was planning for Friday morning.

I drove out to the Middle Fork Snoqualmie Trail and started my run at the Gateway bridge around 10:40 am. The river was raging and covered in a foggy mist. I made it pretty quickly to my turnaround points on my prior runs. It's really hard to gauge how far that section is, time-wise it should be at least 6 miles. Running the trail feels like a mix between jogging and a game of soccer.

At the Dingford Creek trail, I ran across the bridge and up to the trailhead just to get my bearings. Then decided to head further up the Mid Fork trail. I was thinking I would try to get to the Goldmeyer Hot Springs bridge. After several miles completely by myself on the trail, I got to Thunder Creek. It was raging, a crossing would involve wet rocks, a jump, a log shimmy, and possibly wading. This seemed dumb and I was getting tired. So I turned around and headed back to Dingford.

On the road, I headed back towards the car. It read milepost 18 near the trailhead and as I walk/ran I counted off the miles until feeling beat enough to hitch a ride. I took this picture along the road around 2 pm or so, the fog was still around.

It never rained on me, but I was drenched completely the entire run from stream crossings, sweat, wet branches and high humidity. I never stopped walking or running for 4 hours and 23 minutes until I flagged a ride for the last couple of miles.