Hiking Knapsack Pass to Spray Park ( Carbon River Entrance)

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We hiked Knapsack Pass to Spray Park on Saturday Sept 2nd.

Facilities onsite and open.

What a treat!  I hiked well over 100 hundred hikes in the last 2 years I can easily say this is my favorite. 

Note, we started the day at 8:30am. There were 80-100 lining the road to the trailhead.  Its a good idea to come early.   Also note, you should put the MRNP parking pass in the windshield.

To get to the unmaintained TH, go down to the campground stay to the left of the campground (you'll see a sign for the wonderland trail). Walk towards Mowich. You'll see a ranger cabin on your right and a sign for unmaintained trail.  Start there.

Its easy to find and stay on while hiking.  The trail starts off steep then levels off to a meadow area then gets a steep (but manageable). 

You can turn back once you get to the peak or keep going to Spray park. 

If Spray Park go down the talus and stay to your right.  You should see cairns through the talus and stay right.  You'll go through some pretty cool tarns too. 

You should be able to find and stay on the trail from there.  Once we got to the other side of the next peak we saw the first BIG bear in a meadow.  He/She seemed content eating and did not pay us much mind.  We followed the ridge till we saw the Spray Park jct.  Immediately thereafter we saw our 2nd bear.  He kinda startled me as I walked around a tree on the trail. 

Everything was beautiful but some of the seasonal creeks are drying up so bring plenty of water.