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.