Bridal Veil Falls

Bridal Veil Falls

This past weekend, we took advantage of a dry Saturday morning, and took off for a hike in the Central Cascades.  We had originally planned on doing a different hike, which one source stated as 5 miles and another as 6.5 miles.  We were more interested in a shorter hike, as we had plans for the afternoon.  We quickly settled on Bridal Veil Falls, which is 4 miles round trip, and the book said it would take roughly 2 hours (and it was right!). 

We got off to a 'rocky' start, when once we arrived at the trail head we realized we left our discovery pass at home!  (Don't worry it has now been placed in my car!).  We headed back into town, and bought a day pass.  The first 1.5 miles up was on a nice terrian (with a few streams to cross), and not too steep of an incline.  I should have paid closer attention to the description of 'rocky terrain is at the top'.  There were quite a few streams to cross, with poor footing.  With my somewhat fear of heights and falling this was not helpful.  But the view from the top was worth the last 1/2 mile.  I had read that it was 'kid friendly', and mentioned holding your child's hand at the top, so as not to fall into the waterfall.  I'm not sure what the definition of 'kid' is - but I wouldn't recommend taking under 10 along for the hike, due to the last stretch of the trail. 

At the start