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Nuhights
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PostTue Jun 05, 2007 11:17 pm 
Horshoe Basin is open!!!! Backpacked in from Iron Gate TH. The BURN from last fall's fire is extensive and impressive to say the least. TR at www.summitroutes.com Discussion forum Pasayten Wilderness page.

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PostWed Jun 06, 2007 12:32 am 
Thanks for the link to the TR. Did you get any pictures of the area? I'd really like to see what's burned or not. It sounds like a lot of burn around Windy, but not in Horseshoe Basin itself. How about around Horshoe Mountain? Or east toward Haig Peak? That area had beatiful larch slopes when I was there in Fall 2004. I've been wondering what's left. The border marker and border cuts crossing Armstrong are cool, but unfortunately that darned border also deprived Armstrong of a place in the Top 200. The American high point has enough elevation, but it doesn't have prominence because of the higher summit on the Canadian side. Horseshoe Basin before the fires:
Border cut below Armstrong
Border cut below Armstrong
Horseshoe & Windy from the Arnold-Goodenough Ridge
Horseshoe & Windy from the Arnold-Goodenough Ridge
Horseshoe Basin from Horseshoe
Horseshoe Basin from Horseshoe
Looking south from Windy, probably all burned now.
Looking south from Windy, probably all burned now.

“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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PostWed Jun 06, 2007 1:10 pm 
Tom posted some photos of the devastation that he took last year in October. You can see them here.

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PostWed Jun 06, 2007 1:20 pm 
additionally there's a trip report in WTA's site; someone was there last week. Lots of widow-makers coming down...

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