4.4 hr
Overview
Most of the best features of the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness can be visited on this rather arduous hike. You'll ascend leafy slopes of old growth montane forest, visit grassy clearings framed by stunted oaks, take in views up and down the Cascades from a lookout maintained by volunteers, stop at a secluded mountain lake, and hike along the beautiful, tumbling Salmon River. Give yourself plenty of time for this loop, and choose a day when you can take in the views. In the first part of summer, wildflowers abound in all the various habitats you'll pass through. Note that some of the trail sections are rather remote and are not maintained regularly. To reach Green Canyon Way, walk back 0.4 miles from the trailhead. The Salmon River rushes by on the other side of the road. Pass a gully on the right and then a sign on the opposite side where the Old Salmon River Trail meets the road. Take this trail to enter deep, leafy woods of big-leaf maple, red alder, Douglas-fir and western hemlock. Note some large trees and a small waterfall spilling down into the Salmon River. The trail rejoins the road. Walk alongside the road for about 250 yards. See the sign for the Green Canyon Campground, and then find the sign for the Green Canyon Way Trail #793A at the Green Canyon Trailhead opposite the campground on the right side of the road. The trail heads into the woods on the right side of a map sign and then runs along a fallen Douglas-fir. Traverse up under some large hemlocks and Douglas-firs. It’s a ferny woodland of maidenhair, spiny wood fern, deer fern, and sword fern. Early in the morning, this side of the slope is in deep shadow. Switchback under Douglas-firs, hemlocks and cedars at the sign proclaiming entrance to the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness. Then switchback again above steep-sided Green Canyon, which is the first and last time you’ll see the bottom of it. Switchback again, ignoring a track going off to the right. Make two more switchbacks and then a longer traverse. Then switchback around the nose of the ri
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