Distance: 15.4 Miles (Round trip)
Elevation: 6,400 Feet
Elevation Gain: 4304 Feet (Round trip)
This hike offered a lot of great views of Mt. Rainier. Spray Park is very pretty with a lot of ponds and a series of meadows. It is not
flat.
Next time, I say we do this as a day hike. We lost 1200 feet in elevation down to Cataract Camp and there is nothing to see once you get there.
Finally, the bugs have diminished, but there are other pests around who can be just as annoying. We were camped fairly close to some dope smoking insomniacs who managed to wake me up several times as they wandererd back and forth through the camp for no apparent reason, talking about weird random stuff that made no sense.
Spray Falls is well worth the short side-trip.
