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nordique Member
Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 1086 | TRs | Pics
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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 Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
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."
— 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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puzzlr Mid Fork Rocks
Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 7220 | TRs | Pics Location: Stuck in the middle |
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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
That made me change my plans for the day (I was going to do some solo weeding on USFS land). I thought I'd check out the other area trailheads to see what the closures looked like.
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
Then decided to drive up the North Fork. I hadn't been up that way since last summer.
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
[Edit] Adding video of huge puddle on the road
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
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."
— Abraham Lincoln
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flatsqwerl Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1049 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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 aka friendly hiker
Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 3370 | TRs | Pics Location: West Seattle |
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Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:03 am
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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 Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
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 Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1049 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
I wonder about Hansen creek road...is it blocked by snow on the first flats?
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blendergasket Member
Joined: 06 Sep 2014 Posts: 168 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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"
~Paracelsus
"He who would understand the Book of Nature must walk its pages with his feet"
~Paracelsus
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9513 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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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 Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1049 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
The north fork is the OLD middle fork!
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
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."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Randy Cube Rat
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 2910 | TRs | Pics Location: Near the Siamangs |
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Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:52 pm
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Well said. The MFK is fairly soft these days.
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1456 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
You always gotta look over your shoulder in these harder valleys north of 90
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mosey Member
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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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