Date Hiked: 11/4/07

Conditions: Trail from Upper Works was frequently wet and muddy to jct w/ trail to Duck Hole. From that jct. to where we left the trail it was frequently wet and muddy. But that all improved once we left the trail.:~) Mostly we hiked in the woods on the right side of the stream, but occasionally we walked up the stream. Doing so we found a small fraction of the rocks to be glazed. It was thin, very clear ice, so sometimes it was hard to see, especially when glasses were fogging up. We happened to not hit any really thick spruce, but there could have been some 50 yards to either side. Going down, we first followed the path on the ridge southeast until we lost it. At that point we saw a bad patch of blow down at our level and above us. I prepared myself for having to negotiate a lot of that, but we actually ran into very little. We headed SE and hit the stream draining Wallface Ponds in a beautiful, open, grassy area. The woods along the stream were generally good going all the way down to the Indian Pass trail. The IP trail back to UW was...frequently wet and muddy.

Special Required Equipment: Gloves for bushwhacking. You'll probably have them anyway due to colder temps, but on the chance that you're hiking on an unusually warm day this month, bring gloves anyway.

Comments: Found: A commemorative pin, just over 1" in diameter. The design has a leaf, a bear, and a team name. I found it in an open area along the Wallface outlet stream. It was probably lost by a Canadian. To claim it, identify the leaf (duh!), the bear, and the team.
--The forecast was 10% PoP. Before we'd been on the trail an hour, Kevin pointed out that it was snowing very lightly. It was that very light, granular stuff like tiny styrofoam balls. It lasted less than 5 minutes and was very hard to see. At one of the ponds along the trail we saw the granules on the ice, and we saw a a few more granules on the summit. They were in very few places, and there weren't many. It wasn't even a dusting.

Submitted by: MarkL and Mudrat