Lusk Creek

After schlepping down Trail 481 since Stone Bottom Road was too washed out and rutted to take down to the ford crossing (even in a Subaru Outback), we left the car at the trailhead and hiked down to the creek. For reasons that defy comprehension, none of the trails in the Lusk Creek Wilderness area are measured out in miles or kilometers, either on the trail signs or the official map. (That said, the individual trails are posted well both in the wilderness area and the map, just not how long any given trail is...) Trail 481 is approximately 1.5 miles long, and it took us 1h 40m to get down to the water from Stone Bottom Rd. If the trail had snow, we could have just pulled our boats. Instead, we had to shoulder them in, which was arduous.