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polarbear
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
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Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
I have to agree that the Mineral Creek trail is pretty bad. What else would inspire one to take the following pictures? I've hiked the trail twice. It is nasty. Sometimes you can't see your feet.
 exhibit a  exhibit b  exhibit no-see  well worth it
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Sore Feet
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What trail? Hell with that, I'm going to Spectacle via Pete, even if it's 5 miles of flat no views (not that I have anything against flat).
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polarbear
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Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
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Hikerdan
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Hikerdan
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 Fri Feb 21, 2003 1:28 am |
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Thanks for the info BP Joe. I've been into Enjar and Hamar lakes via the Slide lake route but not over the ridge to Snowking. If you are going in the area for a week are you planning on hitting all the lakes from the Jordans to Cyclone?
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Backpacker Joe
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HD, I've been into Jordans many times. Ditto the granite lakes. Planning on slide and arrowhead, enjar and Whale. Then over to snowking and the surrounding lakes.
TB
"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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Timber Cruiser
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My vote would have been for Lake Serene based on the condition it was in the last time I was up there in 1972. Hand to hand combat on a muddy, eroded track and then when you finally reached the lake, a pile of garbage the size of Mt. Index. 
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
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REJ
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REJ
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Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:33 pm |
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Oh Timber Cruiser how times have changed! Lake Serene was once #1 with a bullet on the bad trail hit list. The trail to Lake Serene was recently rebuilt. The trail now features many nice "hand-made" wooden stairs (instead of roots?) for your hiking convenience.
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Randy
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Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:36 pm |
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The fact that it has wooden stairs and such should be reason enough for inclusion in another category of worstest "trails".
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lopper
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lopper
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Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:53 pm |
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The Nordrum Lake Trail is a fine example of steep, slick, rooty goodness.
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Mike Collins
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A footnote of interesting history. The original name for Three Queens which overlooks Mineral Creek and trail was, can you guess  ??? ...Mineral Peak...I don't know when the change took place.
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Randy
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Randy
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Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:28 pm |
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Yes, Nordrum is another bad one. The lower sections of the Bare Mountain trail should get an award for hugestest and thickestest ferns!
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Dave Weyrick
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Trails are there to get you to your off-trail jumpoff point by headlamp...
If I'd known ya was gonna use bait I wouldn't a brought ya!
If I'd known ya was gonna use bait I wouldn't a brought ya!
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polarbear
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| Quote: | | The fact that it has wooden stairs and such should be reason enough for inclusion in another category of worstest "trails". |
 Yep. Just say no to stairs.
Trails like the old Lake Serene and the Lake Constance were steep, but they have a kind of charcater to them, or maybe they just build character. Oddly both the Found Lake and Lake Constance now both require roadwalking to get to the trailhead due to washouts. Character building is ok, but there can be too much of a good thing.
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dean brittain
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Wagonwheel Lake near staircase is no good. Steep.
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Captain Trips
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Good to see a little Olympics action in this thread. There aren't too many examples of steep trails that can compare to crossing the Olymipics West to East. Rough trails, real live bears and other critters, bee's nests and that damn up and down. Lacrosse Pass in the inner Olympics can be a challange with a full pack as I remember it as we progressed to Anderson Pass.
Worst trail in the last couple of years ? The PCT switchback going south towards Spectacle lake and doing the switchback that never ends. Almost six miles back and forth in a old burnout down slowly, slowly, slowly.
Most people take the cut off toward Pete lake, then reconnect with the PCT closer to the Spectacle lake trail. Having been a target of negative press earlier in this story, Pete is very sullen, subject to the shakes and will bring up individual issues as soon as he figures out the floor and the door knob.
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