North Fork Coffee Creek Backpacking Trip

We had another adventure weekend. Back in January we decided on all our summer trips and sent out an email to family to see who could watch the girls. Elaine choose this weekend and the girls were so excited to see her. Thanks Auntie for watching the girls so we could have fun. We also planned this trip in March. We had been looking at our backpacking book and decided on this trail because it has the best fishing and we had a chance to catch a golden trout. Well as most of you know it has been a crazy year in the weather department and the creek has a crazy amount of water in it. Fishing was not going to happen but we still tried. A month ago this trail was only open to 1.5 miles. We had a good time and here our the pictures to show it!

Alway happy in the beginning. There wasn't a trailhead marker to we started a different way. It was not a good way to start, it was close to the creek and hilly and we were not happy. After about 10 minutes Scott goes up higher on the hill we were climbing and found the trail, thank gosh! The trail was really easy and scenic.
1.5 miles in there is a bridge that crosses the creek. The bridge was nicely build and it was cool to cross this way instead of on a log or wading.

View of creek

Us at the first bridge

He had to try fishing what he thought was good pools, but sadly nothing

We made it up to camp at around 12:30 which we figured was about 5 miles from the trailhead. It was on an island with the main creek on one side and a little creek on the other. It was a perfect camp and just up the way was the crossing of the creek. After having lunch we decided to go explore and we had to cross the creek on this log. It was really slippery but we made it across.

Across the creek was a hill that had tons of deer on it. There must have been some mineral in the ground because they were feeding on it. The deer were really curious. In between the trees is a deer looking at me. It was playing hide and seek with me. The wildlife was great this trip. On our drive in we saw two bears, mom and an older cub.

The deers eating the sand. At one point Scott said there were 18 deer right there. It was amazing to watch.

Saturday we tried to hike up to South Fork Lakes but we got one mile up and snow was everywhere. We didnt make it but we did get a good hike in and saw some cool things.

Fishing again. Not at this location but another he did get two bites!
The look of the trail
Since we couldn't get to the lakes we headed to Schlomberg's Cabin. It looks like a mining cabin, not it good shape but cool to see.

The well at Schlombergs Cabin

We packed up camp early and decided to check out the other cabin on the trail but we couldn't get there because of high water. Here is the log we would have used to cross.

Hodges cabin is back in the trees..really nice cabin that belongs to the forestry department now

Us

Closer view of Hodges Cabin

We were going to stay another night but decided to come home instead. Our traditional picture of afterwards! We decided to fish trinity lake on the way home and i got a small trout and we got a view other bites but thats it. Sunday we celebrate Father's Day with traditional sunday events. We feed the ducks and just relaxed. The girls got Scott a fishing pole which he hopes to us next weekend.