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braincloud Summit Seeker
Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 186 | TRs | Pics Location: The crooked path |
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braincloud
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Tue Jun 01, 2021 10:50 am
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Here is your conditions update for Harts Pass as of Memorial Day:
Road is drivable up to about 1.5 miles before the pass (5600') before the snow drifts get too deep and soft to get through. We camped about 2 miles from the top (4600') in the van, but had to help dig out a Jeep that had gotten high-centered in a snow patch just below our camp. Once we freed the Jeep, I was able to drive the heavy-ass van thru with no problems. We drove up to the aforementioned deep show-stopper drifts after blasting through some smaller ones before turning around and making camp. There was also an abandoned truck with a snowmobile in the bed that had slid off the road weeks(??) ago - looks like they'd slid when the snow was deeper but with the current melt-out, it was back on "solid" ground (still had a wheel in the air).
Camp Foot-swallowing slush piles Some dry road after the larger drifts. Toward Meadow CG Harts Pass CG Harts Pass snow level and looking up toward Slate Peak
We found another abandoned vehicle at Harts Pass, but this one had definitely been there all winter.
Such a tragedy as it looked like it was a super cherry and fairly rare 2-door 98-01 Jeep XJ before winter crushed it.
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The light at the end of my tunnel is a police car.
Tom, Slugman, reststep
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The light at the end of my tunnel is a police car.
Tom, Slugman, reststep
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flatsqwerl Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1052 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
Wow that vehicle in the snow is nuts!
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Nice pics. I hope nobody was inside that car.
"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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Blowdown Sawin' Logs ...
Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 376 | TRs | Pics Location: On the Summit |
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Blowdown
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Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:49 pm
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Eric Gilbertson Member
Joined: 04 Jul 2018 Posts: 188 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
Quote: | There was also an abandoned truck with a snowmobile in the bed that had slid off the road |
Wow, I was just up there skiing Saturday morning and didn't see the truck you mentioned that had slid off the road. But when I drove out that afternoon a blueish truck with a yellow snowmobile in the back was driving up. Could that have been the one? I didn't notice any fresh snowmobile tracks in your pictures so it might have actually happened saturday afternoon. Do you remember where it slid off?
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braincloud Summit Seeker
Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 186 | TRs | Pics Location: The crooked path |
Interesting! The truck was an older Dodge Ram with an older sled in the back - I think it had yellow on it? Truck had bright red wheels tho. There was a fairly large patch of snow where it slid off which must have melted out quite a bit between Saturday and Sunday ... or else the driver was inattentive - because I made it through it in my 2WD with no issues. They were facing uphill so my assumption is they didn't get to unload the sled to ride.
This is the approximate area of the truck - about a quarter mile up the road from where we camped:
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sooperfly Member
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 1234 | TRs | Pics Location: North Central Wa. |
Thank you for the update !
Here's the jeep at the pass last fall. (not my pic)
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kitya Fortune Cookie
Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 842 | TRs | Pics Location: Duvall, WA |
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kitya
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Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:20 pm
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Why do you have a shiba in one photo and bully in other photos? This is confusing!
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Seattle_Wayne Member
Joined: 12 Nov 2019 Posts: 104 | TRs | Pics Location: Greater Snohomish County |
There are two different dogs- that's weird.
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Xjdingo Member
Joined: 10 Jun 2021 Posts: 1 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:03 pm
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That’s my XJ. Thanks for posting the pics. I’ve been monitoring the Harts Pass SNOTEL in order to determine when it might be recoverable. It looks like it could be another 2-4 weeks depending on temperatures.
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Tom Admin
Joined: 15 Dec 2001 Posts: 17857 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:23 pm
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Xjdingo, sorry to hear. What's the back story, or is it too painful to recount?
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Jimbo Member
Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 1558 | TRs | Pics Location: Arlington |
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Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:08 pm
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As of last weekend it's still stuck.
Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians
Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2819 | TRs | Pics
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The truck must be recovered. We didn't see it this week. You can drive to Harts Pass now.
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shoulderseason Member
Joined: 17 Jul 2017 Posts: 14 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
Quote: | You can drive to Harts Pass now. |
Any chance you did the PCT north from there? Curious about current trail conditions from the pass.
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2819 | TRs | Pics
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Some of the trail is bare, but there are other sections where an ice axe is needed. I met a northbound thruhiker who had to turn back.
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