10 CRUCIAL Things I Wish I Knew Before the Wonderland Trail
7.1K views · Jul 29, 2024 · Education
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@chadlubinski · 2 years ago · pinned
📌 When are you planning to start the Wonderland Trail? Will you do a walk up permit or apply in advance?
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@MarioTricomi · 1 year ago
I’d like to add a few comments. I just finished the Wonderland in July and these are some of my observations. We went counter clockwise out of the White river campground. We carried 6 days worth of food in order to get to Longmire. This was we were unable to resupply at Movich Lake campground, due to a road closure. Going CCW the climbs were steeper but the downhills were not as steep. Your legs took less of a pounding. As a rule the trail grades were not bad at all. This is coming from an AT section hiker, esp NH/ME. What did slow us down were the number of blow down that hadn’t been chainsawed off the trail. Also I don’t necessarily agree about not having rain gear. We hit one afternoon of ice cold rain and I don’t mind being soaked as long as I’m warm. Was surprised that the trail wasn’t blazed. The trail could get sketchy in rocky river valleys looking for tiny rock cairns.
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@dancoursey5447 · 2 years ago
Thank you! Very informative series. Next summer.
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@sgtpickles1319 · 1 year ago
WA native here, my top sites to stay at would be:<br>1. Indian Bar (Group site is best one)<br>2. Golden Lakes<br>3. Summerland<br>4. Mowich Lake<br>5. Mystic Lake<br><br>The best section of the whole trail is starting at Fryingpan Creek and camping at Summerland, then Summerland to Indian Bar, and then out at Box Canyon.<br><br>If you are doing the whole thing I highly recommend the Spray Park alternate and a short side hike to the Burroughs. (Stop at 2nd Burrough, 3rd is a lot of work for basically the same view)
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@thebreakingday · 1 year ago
Wondering what you meant with "scoring some food" at the Mowich ranger station. Did other hikers just not pick up there stuff there so its available for other hikers? I'm planning to do the trip this summer and read to bring my resupply to the ranger station near Mowich a day prior or early the day before starting in Longmire 🤷♀
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