Wilson River Trail: Jones Creek CG - Eastwards (toward North Fork Bridge)

In this fourth week on the Wilson River Trail, we continued westwards. We hiked from Jones Creek CG - Eastwards (toward North Fork Bridge). This was an intermediate hike on a well maintained and very beautiful trail. This hike crosses Wilson River on the North Fork Bridge.
Here is a Map of this trail:

http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/TSF/docs/WilsonRiverEastTrail.pdf

Where:
Wilson River Trail: Jones Creek CG - Eastwards (toward North Fork Bridge)

Difficulty/Distance:
Intermediate / ~4-7 miles

Directions:
Rt 26 West to Rt 6 towards Tillamook
At mile marker 23, turn right at the Jones Creek Campground sign. Park in the day use lot

Coordinates:
45.58718, -123.55313

Weather:
It turned out to be a really beautiful day for this hike. We had clear skies and a warm (but not hot) day.

Pictures:
Here is the link to the pictures.

My Experience:
It was wierd in the beginning cos it was just the hike organizers and me from JF campus ...but soon after we reached there we saw a huge turnout. This time I was very hungry right at the beginning of the hike and I completed my snack bar.

The trail was beautiful with all the wild flowers in full bllom.

I liked the greenery and the tiny white flowers which were present all through the hike. 

There was tiny waterfalls (may be Wilson Falls) and the water here was gushing!  

This is where we reached after a 2mile hike. There was this mossy path which led to this place and I slipped and hurt myself badly. We played here for sometime before turning back. I could not do more than 2 mile 1 way! I was very tired.  

This one is for posing :)  My gloves ...I was cold after I slipped on that path :( 

 

And this is the suspension bridge right above that place that we played at. We wondered if it was really made all out of wood :P

 

And here I was testing my photography skills ! This is almost to the end of the hike. The sunset lighting was perfect for taking these pictures.

On the drive back, I slept for most of the time ! And I missed a deer which crossed our car. A real beautiful hike overall!! 

Wilson River Trail: King Mt TH - Westwards (toward North Fork Bridge)

In this third week on the Wilson River Trail, we covered some more ground than the last couple of weeks. We hiked from King Mt TH westwards (toward North Fork Bridge). This is an intermediate hike on a well maintained and very beautiful trail. This hike crosses several tributaries of Lester Creek. Here is a Map of this trail:

http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/TSF/docs/WilsonRiverEastTrail.pdf

Where:
Wilson River Trail: King Mt TH - Westwards (toward North Fork Bridge)

Difficulty/Distance:
Intermediate / ~5-7 miles

Directions:
Rt 26 West to Rt 6 towards Tillamook
The trail is on the north side of Rt 6 near milepost 25 at the Hiker sign
Coordinates: 45.59709, -123.50626

Weather:
A few clouds from time to time. High 53, Low 41F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.  It was perfect weather  for a hike.

Co-ordinates:
Coordinates: Start: 45.59709, -123.50626 (180m)

Pictures:
My Pictures
David's Pictures

My Experience:
This week's hike was the most difficult one till now. The weather was very dissappointing in the afternoon when I saw a hail storm. By the time we started for the hike, it was a beautiful sunny evening. It has already become a norm that we desis formed a small group withing ourselves already :)

After we started, we were hoping the trail would end sloping at atleast some point. It did not. All throughout the hike, we were gaining more and more elavation with very little plateau regions.
I was so tired, I could not even chew my snack bar :) So I could not even take pictures along the way.

There were many wild flowers on the way, which added color to the totally green trail :)

 

The trail was not so not so green like it was last week but it looked very beautiful with few small creeks along the way.

The final view where we saw the Wilson River Valley was worth the difficult hike.

Here is where we took our group picture.

Poor guys, Sourav and Jayaram they had to wait for us till we were done taking pictures cos they drove us :)

While coming back the tints of the sky with the hues of green, were such a delight to the eye.

I was able to capture few very good snaps on the way back. I think I am starting to get better at looking at things from that angle ;) Here are few of them.

Beautiful weather, good trail and a nice workout :)

On our way back while we driving, we saw a car turned out and the car was on smokes. There was an accident and we tried stopping and helping but later drove ahead till we got a telephone signal to inform 911. Luckily everybody was safe and the ambulance reached pretty soon.