Pacific Crest Trail

The first "fork" of Sulphur Creek you reach if hiking from east to west is what I call the "east" fork, although it might be signed as being the "north fork". It is, however, "east" of the next fork you'll come to, which is what I call the "west" fork. Feel free to call them anything you want, but they do have water in them pretty much all year.

From here the trail continues to wind in and out of canyons, with the occasional switchback bringing you up to the junction of the Dog Trail in about 35 minutes.

One advantage (if you could call it that) of such a dry year is that creeks that normally required a high level of skill to ford without getting your boots wet are now, literally and figuratively, a "walk in the Park". Sulphur Creek is just a whisper and the upper end of Root Creek is dry. Paraphrasing Rachel Carson, this is certainly undoubtedly a "Silent Fall", but here and there are seeps that seem very drought-resistant if you look in the right places.

The area west of the Dog Trail intersection is covered on the pages describing Burstarse Creek and Burstarse Falls.