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nordique
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nordique
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 Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:37 pm |
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Thanks for the info about that gate! Are there interesting hiking opportunities or views beyond that gate? And don't forget that not all Vietnam vets are nuts! Just some of us--and we are nuts for the Middle Fork!
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Backpacker Joe
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I hope they fix the road by summer. I’m looking forward to biking to the end and getting back up the Dutch Miller after so many years.
"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."
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"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."
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puzzlr
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Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:19 pm |
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Last weekend the DNR moved the Middle Fork road closure back to Valley Camp. On the weekend officers were posted at the closure to enforce it. All DNR land and trails are closed, so don't park before the closure and walk in.
 Middle Fork closure by Valley Camp  Little Si trailhead closure  Mount Si trailhead closure  Teneriffe trailhead closure  Teneriffe bus turnaround trailhead closure  CCC road trailhead closure  North Bend ranger station closed  Sunday Creek bridge  Big slide along the North Fork river a little past Sunday Creek. Google Earth imagery shows this starting in about 2009, but it seems to still be eroding.  Trashed car at the Sunday Lake trailhead  Lennox Creek bridge view downstream  Spot along FR 57 where the creek is running close to the road  My turn around spot on FR 57. The snow got deeper here and I could see deep snow ruts ahead. I wasn't even close to the Bare Mountain trailhead.  View down to Lennox Creek. The old road has been completely washed away  Hail on the North Fork road  Mount Si from 428th Ave
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Backpacker Joe
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Thanks for the North Fork information Puzzlemeister. I was wondering about that.
"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."
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flatsqwerl
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I was wondering about the N fork as well. Gee, that vehicle sh##-show really gives me pause about parking anywhere up that road. That might keep away people as well as any gate!!
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zephyr
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Thanks for the update puzzlr. Whoa--that car destruction. To think of the malice of those individuals is unsettling to say the least.
| puzzlr wrote: | Mount Si from 428th Ave |
Some of my favorite views of Mt. Si are in this area. Thanks, ~z
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Brucester
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Tinkham Road is closed? Washouts and trees?
Noticed this several weeks or months ago, just too lazy to do a search here.
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flatsqwerl
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I wonder about Hansen creek road...is it blocked by snow on the first flats?
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blendergasket
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I think Tinkham road always closes for the winter, but I wouldn't be surprised if it stayed closed longer to keep people from camping up there.
"He who would understand the Book of Nature must walk its pages with his feet"
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"He who would understand the Book of Nature must walk its pages with his feet"
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Randito
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Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:15 pm |
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| puzzlr wrote: | Trashed car at the Sunday Lake trailhead |
The North Fork is the new Middle Fork!
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flatsqwerl
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The north fork is the OLD middle fork!
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Backpacker Joe
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| flatsqwerl wrote: | | The north fork is the OLD middle fork! |
I agree.
"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."
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Randy
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Well said. The MFK is fairly soft these days.
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BigBrunyon
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You always gotta look over your shoulder in these harder valleys north of 90
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mosey
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mosey
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Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:16 pm |
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| nordique wrote: | | Thanks for the info about that gate! Are there interesting hiking opportunities or views beyond that gate? And don't forget that not all Vietnam vets are nuts! Just some of us--and we are nuts for the Middle Fork! |
The road can be followed to Gifford Creek and it is apparently a BW2-4 canyon. Passable but hard and long to get to the lakes, I'd rather go in via granite creek. There's a geocache along it.
There's also a route up Russian buttes described by ??? that takes an avalanche chute up the front of the faces. I can't find the text but it was described as impossible seeming until you were right at it. Maybe a pitch or sever of protection needed also.
I was considering exploring that area more since the landslide. it doesn't look particularly promising though.
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