Bridal Veil Falls, WA-style
While living in Utah, I would often ride my bike on the Provo river canyon trail (or whatever it was called) when the weekend was nice. That trail passes right in front of the Utah version of Bridal Veil Falls. Taking a break there to touch the cool water was very refreshing for a roasting sweaty bike rider.
This week, we decided to check out Washington’s Bridal Veil Falls. As with most of our other hikes, we didn’t know anything about it beforehand and I just pick it randomly from a map.
The forest part of the trail seemed different than those of our other hikes – many aspens and other deciduous trees were dominating instead of the evergreens. I’ll have to come back in autumn when the colors change.
Eventually, the trail forks to either a Bridal Veil Falls viewpoint or a much longer switchback-riddled climb to Lake Serene. Since we didn’t have my hiking poles with us, we decided to save my knees and instead go to the viewpoint. After a brief climb, we unfortunately discovered that the trail was impassable due to snow. So we went back and instead walked along the start of the Lake Serene trail and got some great views of some of the many falls before turning back.
We intend on returning with my hiking poles sometime so we can make it all the way to Lake Serene. Many people on the trail mentioned how beautiful it was and how it truly lives up to its name – a smooth alpine lake surrounded by incredibly sheer and tall granite cliffs. We’ll be back.
More pictures at the picture album
posted by Jefferson @ 8:22 AM
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