With a rainy day on the forecast, I started looking for a good forested hike and decided to visit the Siouxon Creek up in Washington. I already knew the area a bit as I hiked a portion of this trail when I did the Huffman Peak hike a while back, but back then, it was already dark and we were on our way out from a very long day. This trail, instead of doing the hard climb to either ridge on the side of the creek, just follows it for pretty much as long as you want to follow it. Wanting to do a somewhat easy hike, we started from the middle trailhead that quickly descend thru the forest and gets to the creek. This part of the hike was thru a very dense and dark forest full of ferns and the smell of wet wood. Being a gloomy day, it gave this area that eerie look that was very nice. Once we got to the creek, we started following it upstream and getting only small glimpses of it. As we meandered thru the forest, we got some nice views of the creek and some of the waterfalls but not that turquoise color you usually get on sunny days. That was compensated by the immense variety of mushrooms on the trail though. My initial plan was to head up and find a bridge to cross the creek and then continue towards Wildcat Falls to stop for lunch but we never found that bridge. After exploring possible routes to take and finding that any would have required fording the creek, we decided to turn back, stop in one of the campsites for lunch and then head back to the cars.
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