JasonG

More trails! If you look at old maps, there are hundreds of miles of trails that have been abandoned. Clear 'em out and publicize them!

ha! It's been awhile since I've listened to that.

I'm not crazy! And I do pine for those days in the mid-90's when you had well-known North Cascades trails to yourself. Now I have to go Devil's Club wrestling to find some space.

That's why you need to always cross with a decorated military veteran like @Trent. The red carpet treatment!

Wow, that looks steep! Nice work guys.

Thanks for the report @Chris Hopkins!

Here is another, this is a great group site: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/bridge-creek-group-site/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=73880

Ouch, that IS so painful.

You could grab sites at the forest service camps on the east side of Hwy 20. Plenty of hiking and climbing options up there. I guess it depends whether or not you want to be close to city stuff and cragging or more want to be in the mountains.

Ha! Thanks guys. Now....if I can just win that pass......

Sort of like a certain someone on the Cosley-Houston @Phil K?

This is much more true than you could ever imagine @Chris Hopkins. Judging by your response above, I think you'll fit right in.

Very true @genepires. I wasn't meaning to disagree with you, just saying that avalanches tend to kill way too many professionals for my liking, and sometimes without much in the way of warning beforehand. This isn't the norm, but it does keep you on your toes.

That's certainly true in many instances @genepires, but the ones the scare me the most are where nothing pointed to a problem.....until there was one. As @CascadeClimber said earlier, there is a lot of variability out there on the snowy landscape and sometimes it catches up to even the best.

I'm well aware of the amphibian cost of planting trout in alpine lakes. But, I'm a stinking fish biologist, that loves to fish! Bring on the gore! Oh, and the EIS: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsList.cfm?projectID=44144

I haven't read it, but I will try and track it down now. $28 million could clear a lot of trail miles for a very long time. I have a retired NOCA NPS botanist in my neighborhood and it's crazy the places they flew in and the frequency of flights over the years. To them it was fun work..... to me, a giant waste of money. And don't even get me started on flying barrels of Rotenone up to lakes to kill off the trout. Sorry for the drift....back to grizz!

Ah....I thought they had never been totally extirpated in that area up there, or maybe a bit east of there. Makes sense that it would take more time.

I've often wondered if the habitat is suitable why the haven't shown up on their own. I know the pat answer is that the migration corridors are fragmented and prevent movement. But I don't buy it. I was driving the trans Canada last spring and "King" was walking the RR tracks right next to the road near Kicking Horse Pass. He's so frequently seen munching on train-kill that he has a name. Grizz also aren't afraid of people, unfortunately. I know this first hand from working around them in AK for years.

Watch out when he's ready to take you "off belay". Code for beheading the infidel?

This is good.

High stakes in that competition. It's all fun until.....

How much is reintroduction going to cost? I would rather the money be spent on trail and road maintenance to keep people spread out in the hills, not concentrated where the access is the best. And while you're at it, take the NPS money spent on killing fish in alpine lakes and put that towards road and trail maintenance too. I'm in the minority based on the poll, but that is true on pretty much everything in life.

It's there, just different @cgolden123 . Thanks for bearing with the site!

So.... @cgolden123, things are a bit different than on the old site. There is no home of TRs per se, they are filed under the various geographic forums, intermingled with other posts. To find them all in one spot you need to go to the link Oly posted above. Does that help?