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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 10:05 am 
Slim wrote:
Good pics of the washout on this WTA post: https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report-2021-08-06-6715428719
Whoa. That's a pretty impressive obstacle per those photos. Were there folks on the other side? That would be difficult to cross. Vehicles parked further up the road? ~z

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 11:11 am 
Yes apparently. The Park Service posting said they were working on (somehow) removing people and vehicles stranded back there.

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 12:47 pm 
From the FB comments it looks like they got the people out at least...not sure about vehicles.

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 2:42 pm 
Thanks, Foist and kiliki. Man, that sounds rough--having to abandon one's vehicle. I wonder how often that has happened. I do remember a gal getting stranded on the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie once, but I think that resolved pretty quickly. This situation looks much worse with bigger water and steeper terrain. ~z

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 3:02 pm 
Probably not the vehicles. But they may build a ramshackle system of ramps to get them out once they determine the slope is stable. Cars stuck on the other side of Downey Creek were left until they could get a temp ramp built. I recall one of the car owners threatened a law suit against the USFS if they didn't get his car out. When the white chuck / Suiattle floods rendered the land between them inaccessible, at least one vehicle was left for years. And remember the rental car in the other side of a washout in the Hoh? The rental company charged the guy late fees for every day it was back there. Bastards.

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 3:19 pm 
I remember the cars getting stuck there on the Hoh River Road. Article in the Peninsula Daily News

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 3:55 pm 
zephyr wrote:
I wonder how often that has happened.
Three times now on the Cascade River Road in recent years…

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PostSat Aug 07, 2021 4:38 pm 
kiliki wrote:
Three times now on the Cascade River Road in recent years…
Yikes!
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,,, Cars stuck on the other side of Downey Creek were left until they could get a temp ramp built. ... When the white chuck / Suiattle floods rendered the land between them inaccessible, at least one vehicle was left for years. And remember the rental car in the other side of a washout in the Hoh? The rental company charged the guy late fees for every day it was back there. Bastards.
Yikes! Yikes! again. And I've mainly been concerned about a tree falling across the road--one of those looonnng roads far from the highway. wink.gif Thanks for adding the history. ~z

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