At about 8AM, we continued hiking on the trail from Scott’s Beach. Instead of taking the inland detour, we opted for the “almost always impassable” coastal bouldering route. Several times during this 3o minute bouldering adventure, we had to walk in knee-high in order to make our way between boulders. However, for the most part, this route was easy to navigate at the still-low tide levels at 8AM.
After a couple more hours of hiking, we descended to Third Beach. Due to its relatively easy accessibility via a 15 minute walk from Third Beach Trailhead, Third Beach was relatively busy with overnight campers, day-hikers and SCT backpackers.
From Third Beach, we hiked the last 30 minutes of the trail to Third Beach Trailhead. This last section of the hike began with a steep uphill climb, but soon leveled off and remained flat for the rest of the hike.
Mike’s photos from the trip are below:
On the way back to Seattle, we passed through Fork, WA. Forks, WA is the setting of the fictional book series Twilight. The town has taken full advantage of the attention it has received because of the book, going so far as offering Twilight tours, an annual Twilight celebration, and offering a map with Twilight points of interest.
During the car ride toward Seattle, I reserved an AirBNB in Tacoma, about 1 hour south of Seattle. Tacoma is a relatively rural, older, and lower income suburb of Seattle. There wasn’t much to do besides eating a quick dinner and taking a well-deserved lazy afternoon.
