Gold Creek

I led a small Boy Scout backpack trip (3 scouts, 2 leaders) over the weekend. We hiked a bit over 5 miles up Gold Creek on Saturday, camped, and returned on Sunday. The trail had lots of exciting stream crossings, since the water flow was high from snow melt. At five miles, we came to a nice campspot, we hit almost constant snow on the trail, and we came to a impassable ford across Gold Creek, so we made camp (at 3000 ft elevation).

The scouts entertained themselves playing in a small sidestream, building rock dams, throwing rocks at a baseball floating along. It got cold, 35 F over night. The scouts ate an interesting menu, including spam, ham, bacon, hot dogs, casserole, scrambled eggs, soup, and mashed potatoes.

At the trailhead on Saturday, the ranger warned us of nightly car prowlers and strongly urged us to clean out our vehicles. Both our vehicles were pretty cleaned out, so we decided to take an extra tent with us instead of leaving it in the trunk, we took the vehicle registration from each vehicle, and we left them unlocked. It must have worked, because everything was right where we left it upon return.