After a lovely hike on Saturday, I decided to take a group to an easy, close to town hike. For that, the Lower Salmon River seemed like a good choice. This trail follows the Salmon River on a gentle uphill that eventually departs the river basin to some outstanding viewpoints. I recall doing this hike several times with Shia a couple of years ago and it was always very nice. What I wasn’t counting on though, was how wrong the weather man was going to be. Sunday was supposed to be just a cloudy day but instead, we got rain almost for the entire hike. As soon as we got out of the cars at trailhead, it was a race to put on rain gear and head into the forest. The trail itself was very muddy but incredibly green with moss and ferns. Unfortunately, with all the rain, I wasn’t able to take many pictures on the way up and we were able to stay at the first view point for just a couple of minutes. Since it didn’t make a lot of sense to continue on those conditions (people were getting a bit cold) we decided to stop under the trees for lunch before heading down. Just when we did that, rain stopped for a while so I was able to take some pictures. Coming back down was a lot faster than going up in part because, well, you’re coming down but also because everyone was tired of the rain already. It ended up being a nice hike nonetheless and the dogs had a lot of fun.
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