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Jake Robinson Member
Joined: 02 Aug 2016 Posts: 521 | TRs | Pics
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Patchy snow after Goat Flats, a few steep snow traverses beyond Tin Can Gap. Happy to have packed ice axe and crampons, and a bike! Nice day out with Dave.
Three bullet holes for Three Fingers Bullon and Whitehorse above Goat Flats Tin Can Gap at center Three Fingers A snow crossing Dave in the lookout Middle and North Finger, and Whitehorse a snow traverse
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veronika Member
Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 3015 | TRs | Pics Location: On the road |
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Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:44 am
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Great report. I like that it doesn't get much use anymore. A great place to go for vacation these days. 👍
Take risks not to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping
I may not have anyone rocking my world right now but, I don't have anyone messing it up either.
Take risks not to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping
I may not have anyone rocking my world right now but, I don't have anyone messing it up either.
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uww Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2015 Posts: 319 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 02, 2019 9:39 am
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Looks like a great day! Thanks for the report.
What was the road situation?
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Jake Robinson Member
Joined: 02 Aug 2016 Posts: 521 | TRs | Pics
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The road is blocked just before the bridge across SF Canyon Creek, so that adds 9 miles of road each way onto your trip. There's a big washout ~2 miles before the TH but it wasn't hard to walk our bikes across.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Yet another good reason for an E-bike. Although Im beyond (in a age) the desire to ever care to mess with those ladders. LOL
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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raising3hikers Member
Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 2344 | TRs | Pics Location: Edmonds, Wa |
that's a long day when you can drive to the TH. with the extra 9 miles of road biking each way, you guys had a big day! nice work
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lopper off-route
Joined: 22 Jan 2002 Posts: 845 | TRs | Pics
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Wed Jul 03, 2019 9:11 am
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Thanks for the report & pics. Good to see the inside of the lookout in decent shape. The missing shutter on the E side had some of us worried.
Horrid trail (641) below Saddle Lk.
Meadow Mtn trail: shorter bike-pedal, decent trail, a bit of extra hoofing.
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7707 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
lopper wrote: | Meadow Mtn trail: shorter bike-pedal, decent trail, a bit of extra hoofing. |
That might be a better option for some, when we hiked it a few years ago, we had to push our bikes most of the way to the old TH, of course the return trip was fast, awesome, and a bit scary.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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lopper off-route
Joined: 22 Jan 2002 Posts: 845 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:57 pm
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Before the logging road was built to Tupso Pass, the two trail routes to Goat Flat would have been the Meadow Mtn Trail from Canyon Creek and the Boulder River Trail.
Here is a 1940s map.
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Stuke Sowle Member
Joined: 23 Sep 2016 Posts: 21 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah, WA |
Awesome stuff Jake! I need to go back now that I have a bike. I love running but that road was a bit tedious when I did it a couple of years ago.
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MangyMarmot Member
Joined: 06 Apr 2012 Posts: 474 | TRs | Pics
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Cool trip Jake. This must be the coolest lookout in Washington. Here are a few of my photos:
Traversing a snowfield More snow Our buddy Last ladder The lookout The lookout Climbing out
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the1mitch Member
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 280 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish |
My son and I did 641 last September and found it very doable. The switchback section under the big trees from the forest service road was in great shape. After 2 miles or so it begins to flatten out and rollercoaster a bit and that section requires stopping at every clearing to pick your path. BIG PILES of BEAR SCAT there on the high point of Meadow Mtn. 18 inches across !
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illegitimi non carborundum!
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lopper off-route
Joined: 22 Jan 2002 Posts: 845 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:54 pm
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Just a clarification......the Meadow Mountain trail: #715
Tupso Pass trail #641
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allie Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2014 Posts: 8 | TRs | Pics Location: seattle |
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Tue Jul 09, 2019 8:22 pm
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Great map thanks for sharing!
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the1mitch Member
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 280 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish |
I stand corrected!
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