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timberghost Member
Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 1340 | TRs | Pics
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Mark perhaps you could be their guide!!
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mtn.climber Member
Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 1204 | TRs | Pics Location: The Lost Horizon |
I'd be down for a summertime trip. It was a place that Derek (Rocknclimb) always wanted to visit. Would do it in his honor
Reach for the sky, cuz tomorrow may never come.
Live the life of love. Love the life you live.
hikerbiker rubywrangler
Reach for the sky, cuz tomorrow may never come.
Live the life of love. Love the life you live.
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Downhill Member
Joined: 30 Jul 2018 Posts: 349 | TRs | Pics Location: Leavenworth |
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:38 pm
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I have been visiting Lk. Victoria frequently for over 30 years. The first few times, many years ago, there was really no discernible trail and finding the way with the least amount of bushwhacking and route finding was challenging. I even experimented with alternate approaches including the left side of the drainage and following the drainage directly. These were definitely poor choices, but interestingly I found an old campsite in the drainage just below the band of rock slabs that separates the lower drainage from the upper.
The current trail location on hillside north of the drainage was difficult 20 years ago first due to heavy logging slash and then later it changed again after the fire that burned the lower and middle sections of the route. For a while, there was a faint bootpath that would split into several and then get lost frequently in the snowbrush on the lower 3rd, and then the dreaded steep "pick-up sticks" of fire blowdowns in the middle 3rd. In the first 20 years of going there, I never saw another person car-to-car.
Recently, things have changed, like everywhere else. I have been to Victoria 4 of the past 5 years and I have seen other parties each time (even mid-week), once as many as 5 other parties. The bootpath is well-worn all the way from the dirt road to the boulders just shy of the lake, so it really doesn't require much route finding, certainly nothing like 10-15 years ago. It seems like it would be nearly impossible to lose the path now if you're paying attention. With the route finding made easier it doesn't change the fact that it is sitll a difficult, athletic, and to many, miserable approach.
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zimmertr TJ Zimmerman
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Posts: 1242 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:46 pm
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I think this is exactly the problem with treating lakes as as a secret place and discouraging others from sharing information about it. It creates an enigma about it that only further exacerbates intrigue. I myself went because it was a secret place. People who care about keeping places like this wild would be better off talking about, or even exaggerating, how difficult it is to get there. Ida is a perfect example because it's a nice place but definitely not a top 50 Washington lake lol. But the effort in getting there is high.
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Tom Admin
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:19 pm
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lol wut? Lake Ida has never been a sekrit lake. The only reason someone said anything was you felt compelled to post gps tracks, unrequested, to this and a couple other destinations. Whatever your views on discretion, feel free to do that in your own TR, or separate topic.
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zimmertr TJ Zimmerman
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Posts: 1242 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:41 pm
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Tom wrote: | lol wut? Lake Ida has never been a sekrit lake. The only reason someone said anything was you felt compelled to post gps tracks, unrequested, to this and a couple other destinations. Whatever your views on discretion, feel free to do that in your own TR, or separate topic. |
Not sure I agree because every time it's brought up people try and shush it (see above). I mentioned it because this user posted multiple times and clearly indicated an interest in visiting backcountry areas and Ida is a great starter area. I suppose I could have posted that comment in one of the other threads but didn't feel like posting twice. Just trying to help bolster their courage and enthusiasm with options.
Not everyone sees sharing GPX information as dramatically as others do. Especially for beginners.
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Tom Admin
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:45 pm
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Lake Ida? I did a search here and only see 1 other post of yours, and don't see anyone trying to shush.
If you anticipated the push back to posting GPS tracks to off trail destinations, why blame anyone else for exacerbating intrigue, isn't that on you? I don't think anyone would necessarily object to mentioning other destinations, and letting someone figure it out for themselves. If that leads to Streisand Effect, that's on whomever.
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zimmertr TJ Zimmerman
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:54 pm
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Tom wrote: | If you anticipated the push back |
I didn't. No more than any other lake. Feel free to continue to the conversation in the mod mail you sent if you feel so strongly. Especially given that you alluded to spray in your last comment yet continue to bump lol.
Also "lol wut" is a little inflammatory tbh.
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Tom Admin
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:24 pm
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Not too concerned and won't bother to reply to the arguments presented, other than to say my views have evolved over time, and I'm sure your perspective will change as well.
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babylero Member
Joined: 09 Oct 2020 Posts: 96 | TRs | Pics Location: Tacoma |
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Sat May 04, 2024 10:59 pm
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I went up there in winter a few years ago to climb Cashmere. It's a mid lake as the kids say. I don't see much point in going there in the summer given the approach, but it was beautiful in the winter. I don't recall any issue finding TH because I just started walking up hill on snow till I got to the lake following the path of least resistance.
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Downhill Member
Joined: 30 Jul 2018 Posts: 349 | TRs | Pics Location: Leavenworth |
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Sun May 05, 2024 7:22 pm
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babylero wrote: | I went up there in winter a few years ago to climb Cashmere. It's a mid lake as the kids say. I don't see much point in going there in the summer given the approach, but it was beautiful in the winter. I don't recall any issue finding TH because I just started walking up hill on snow till I got to the lake following the path of least resistance. |
There isn't a TH per se. You walk an old logging road - - now a driveway for private residences, and where the trail starts is a homemade sign painted by the daughter of a resident years ago, when she was 10-12.
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