This is one of many posts about the West Coast Trail trip I did in 2013. See the rest of the West Coast Trail posts.
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Mud.
Lots of it.
I expected to see a lot of mud on the West Coast Trail but I don’t think anything really prepares you for how much there really is.The photo above is a mud pit not 50 metres in from the start of the trail. We had officially begun the trail and we had officially begun the mud.
Some of the trail is nice and dry. The south end is a lot of mud. If you take beach routes, you’ll be spared the mud. Beach routes have their own … challenges. More on that in another post.
Even knee deep mud is really just what you make of it. It doesn’t have to be that bad. A couple of girls we met on the trail were doing the entire trail in Chaco sandals. Pretty crazy in my opinion!
No matter how bad it can seem, they still managed to get through all the mud fine.