Started hiking at 7:30. Wallace River is still running strong. Only a few muddy spots. Stopped at all the view points, but skipped the Boy Scout nature trail. Pace was slow and leisurely with lots of conversation. Followed the blue diamonds from the Upper Falls up steep unmaintained user trail to abandoned road. Walked to the Wallace River to look at location of the old bridge and then turned around and headed to Wallace Lake. Tire tracks here on the road. Easy flat walking in the shade till the last mile or so when we were on a working forest road with no shade (welcome this day). Walked to the NW corner of the lake and ate our final lunch on the small delta of the North Fork Wallace River where it enters the Lake. Followed several roads down to the Greg Ball Trail. Very nice trail and beautiful forest. We can hear the North Fork, but only a few views of it. Bike tracks on the trail (closed to bikes????). Continued back to the TH on the RR Grade. Trails are well signed and in good condition. Met maybe a dozen hikers all day until we neared the parking lot when there were lots coming up. Stats were: 13 miles, 2,010’ gross elev. and 8 hours.

I had heard this trail was usually pretty packed so when i saw the weather was reporting cloudy skies but no rain i knew this would be the day to go. I showed up around 11:30 am and there was plenty of parking, there was probably 5 other cars in the lot. A short way into the hike it rained a small amount then the skies cleared and it was sunny, although the trees give great coverage to protect you from the sun. Really beautiful hike! I walked to the waterfall and back out for a 3 hour 6 mile round trip hike. There are lots of unripe berries and a few ripening ones. The watterfalls and views of the river are amazing. When i got back out it was nearly 2:30 and the parking lot had since become full, probably due to the better weather (:

This is one of the most scenic trails we have done. We took the woody trail because it runs along the wallace river. It's a pretty simple hike upto middle falls and then the difficulty level goes up a lil bit on the way to the upper falls. There is a small diversion right after the middle falls which is really worth a stop. You get this gorgeous view of the valley below and great view of central cascades and a nice view of gold bar or sultan. We were planning to go all the way to wallace lake from Upper falls but the hike after upper falls is not advised. If you plan to go wallace lake, I think greg ball trail is a better choice. All in all great workout and a nice long trail. There were many people(families) on the hike, obviously it was a Saturday afternoon. I have no idea about other reviewers talking about bugs.....Just few regular bees and mosquitoes (what do you expect in the meadows which is right next to a river?). On your way back, if you like getting rewarded, try this awesome milkshake/creamshake ;) at a Shell gas station in Sultan. It was outside this Subway. I don't remember the name of the coffee shop but it was absolutely awesome.

Being a hazy day this was a good low land hike/walk. We went up the to the falls, across the ridge, over to the lake and down the Greg Ball trail. The falls were beautiful and the trail is in good shape all around. Not to many hikers, but lots of bugs.