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PostTue Jun 01, 2021 10:50 am 
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).
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Foot-swallowing slush piles
Foot-swallowing slush piles
Some dry road after the larger drifts.
Some dry road after the larger drifts.
Toward Meadow CG
Toward Meadow CG
Harts Pass CG
Harts Pass CG
Harts Pass snow level and looking up toward Slate Peak
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.  :(
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. frown.gif

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PostTue Jun 01, 2021 10:55 am 
Wow that vehicle in the snow is nuts!

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PostTue Jun 01, 2021 1:45 pm 
Nice pics. I hope nobody was inside that car.

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PostTue Jun 01, 2021 4:49 pm 
Now that's not something you see every day! ... fortunately! eek.gif Thanks for the beta. Looks like an awesome trip. Good to know that the road to the campground is clear of logs and will eventually melt out. up.gif up.gif

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PostTue Jun 01, 2021 8:32 pm 
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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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PostWed Jun 02, 2021 8:59 am 
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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PostThu Jun 03, 2021 8:44 am 
Thank you for the update ! Here's the jeep at the pass last fall. (not my pic)

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PostFri Jun 04, 2021 7:20 pm 
Why do you have a shiba in one photo and bully in other photos? This is confusing!

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PostSat Jun 05, 2021 5:27 pm 
There are two different dogs- that's weird.

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PostThu Jun 10, 2021 3:03 pm 
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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PostThu Jun 10, 2021 3:23 pm 
Xjdingo, sorry to hear. What's the back story, or is it too painful to recount?

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PostFri Jun 11, 2021 4:08 pm 
As of last weekend it's still stuck.

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PostFri Jun 25, 2021 10:01 pm 
The truck must be recovered. We didn't see it this week. You can drive to Harts Pass now.

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PostTue Jun 29, 2021 11:50 pm 
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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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PostWed Jun 30, 2021 7:51 am 
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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