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| Made it to the Big Creek trailhead parking lot. Time to head out. |
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| Crossing Smith Creek on the road. |
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| The start of our epic journey. |
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| We always fill out the registration cards. It helps keep our wilderness areas funded when they know how many people use them. |
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| “River of No Return Wilderness” has got to be the best name ever. |
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| The trail starts out nice and wide. |
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| But it gets narrow not too far in. I stayed close, but also ahead, of Ambrose for this day’s hike. |
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| There were so many trees fallen on this slope; Ambrose thinks it was from an avalanche. |
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| Flowers in bloom. |
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| Our campsite is getting closer. Just 3 miles today, which is why we didn’t start until after lunch. |
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| I did not step on this spider. I just wanted its picture, but it kept moving away when I stepped in closer. |
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| Alas, the thimbleberries are not ripe in July. |
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| I remembered this part from last year. So close to being able to sit down and relax. Well, relatively relax, there was still camp to set up after all. |
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| Here’s the path to where we camped last year. This year we were going to try the other site. |
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| The theme of logs continued at the meeting of Big Creek and Beaver Creek. |
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| I was glad, I am glad, there is a bridge over Beaver Creek. |
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| Posing for the camera. |
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| I’m surprised there wasn’t flooding with all those logs jammed up. |
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| Chamberlain, yay! |
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| This campsite was okay. There was some trash on the ground and that was yucky, but it had logs for sitting and a flat spot for the tent, so it performed adequately. |
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| It also featured this large mushroom. |