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JonnyQuest Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2013 Posts: 593 | TRs | Pics
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Snuffy wrote: | I do believe someone drowns yearly there? They need to close it or figure out how to manage the crowds. |
Not to be crass, but I'm less worried about the drowning aspect. As some on here are fond of saying, "you can't fix stupid". Many of our local "watering holes" see annual drownings. And closing Eagle Falls or others due to this concern would be setting a precedent I'd rather not see.
I am, however, concerned about the damage and disrespect caused by what is likely a small portion of the visitors.
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Snuffy Member
Joined: 28 Dec 2012 Posts: 315 | TRs | Pics Location: Everett, WA |
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Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:56 pm
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You are being crass. And my comment about closing was in regards to the numbers so it was also unnecessary.
You don't find yourself standing at the top of a mountain without having started out in the valley.
You don't find yourself standing at the top of a mountain without having started out in the valley.
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7676 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
There was a crash there 2 days ago from someone doing a U turn into on coming traffic. I saw a white car flip a u turn in front of the car ahead of me stopping traffic in both ways.
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 583 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Waterman
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Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:12 am
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Fatalities are far more likely involving people scurrying across the highway, parking alongside the highway, deciding to make a left turn without any consideration of high speed traffic behind them.
Yearly drownings in our local rivers are tragic, but not nearly as gruesome as accident scenes I've come across on US 2 over the years.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Bedivere
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Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:48 pm
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Hiway 2 has become a complete clusterflump.
There was a traffic jam going *Eastbound* from Monroe through Sultan late Saturday morning. I've never encountered that before...
Lots of people at Heybrook and Eagle Falls was crowded but the weather was cooler and cloudy so that probably kept the crowds down. A hundred cars at least, if not more at the Barclay Lake trailhead and every camp spot at the lake was full.
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wanderwild Member
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 333 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
Bedivere wrote: | There was a traffic jam going *Eastbound* from Monroe through Sultan late Saturday morning. I've never encountered that before... |
This has happened to me twice on Saturdays where I left late morning to go east on 2. One of those times it took 90 minutes to get from Monroe to sultan.
"Whatever your mountain, climb on."
"Whatever your mountain, climb on."
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
Did you take the back way?
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MyFootHurts Huge Member
Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 912 | TRs | Pics Location: Kekistan |
From a WTA trip report for Barclay lake someone posted today:
"One of the locals in Sultan told us that someone posted a video of Eagle Falls on the Tik tok and it’s been a zoo ever since. There were hundreds of cars along the Hiway and zero miles per hour traffic. "
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
That's nothing yesterday it was backed up all the way past Grotto. People parking where they shouldn't have and out in the road again. When is it going to stop this is ridiculous!!
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2410 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:52 am
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Sky Hiker wrote: | When is it going to stop |
When the local constables start ticketing/towing. Sounds like they're missing out on a lot of revenue.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Nancyann Member
Joined: 28 Jul 2013 Posts: 2314 | TRs | Pics Location: Sultan Basin |
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:46 am
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Talked to a couple at Smoky’s Barbecue in Skykomish Saturday night who had to do the roadwalk up to the Colchuck trailhead. Eagle Falls is looking a lot more appealing, plus people don’t even have to drive over the pass now to be part of the action!
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Randito Snarky Member
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:01 am
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FWIW RD 58 , the old Snoqualmie pass road has become "a thing" to the point that the the USFS tried to make it one way east bound, but vandals ripped down the new signs and the sheriff is now posing a deputy where RD 58 branches off the Alpental road.
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stever Member
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:36 pm
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rossb Member
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:50 pm
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That report said Sunday. I was up there on Saturday, and their was a rescue (that screwed up traffic for miles). I wonder if there was a rescue both days, or if the reporters made a mistake.
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