I lost count at 150 cars at the Valley Way trail head this afternoon. The parking lot always overflows on the weekend, but this is the first nonpeak foliage weekend that I've see cars parked on both sides of the highway and extending a good 1/4 either way. The photo below doesn't capture half of them. Must have been standing room only at the summit of Madison today.
Meanwhile on the other side of the valley, we brushed and blazed 2 miles of trail and we didn't see a single other hiker. (I now have over 60 hours of volunteer trail work with the RMC crew this summer).
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