Peter_Puget Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 These must have been climbed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwalling Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 where in the fuck is neckless valley??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 "Drive State Route 2 for 1.7 miles east of the Skykomish (sic). Turn south onto Foss River Road #68. Continue on Road #68 for 4.1 miles to the trailhead and parking area on the left." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dberdinka Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Cool shot. Never been in that area, how far in a hike is it? Rock doesn't look bad either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwalling Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 ok, thanks I've never been up there. I'm interested in the rock not the ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alasdair Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Hey when was that first photo shot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philfort Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I don't think that first shot is the Necklace Valley off highway 2. Those trees look like pine trees, which I don't think you'd find in the Foss river valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted December 13, 2004 Author Share Posted December 13, 2004 oops sorry wrong valley...that first pic is of THE Valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 There is some nice looking rock in the top of the Necklace valley but it is a long ways back there if the road isn't open past the tressle. Summer time, it's about 8 miles from the trailhead. Good camping and lots of big rocks that have probably not seen much action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbb Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 There is some nice looking rock in the top of the Necklace valley but it is a long ways back there if the road isn't open past the tressle. Summer time, it's about 8 miles from the trailhead. Good camping and lots of big rocks that have probably not seen much action. hear that distel?? pebble FA potential! screw mongolia nice bait PP. I was going to say that if ice is formed in that area, it suuuuuure don't look all nice and clean like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Bring a fishing rod... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 ...and about a quart of DEET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Schuldt Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Cool wandering in that area. I've there via the Middle Fork Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 ...and about a quart of DEET When I was up there I made two hundred and thirty four tiny harnesses out of dental floss and had a swarm of mosquitoes carry my pack for me. All I had to do was jog along in front of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I believe it. Two (three?) summers ago the snowfields on Hinman were oddly and very thickly peppered with dead skeets. There were mobs of fat birds waddling around up there, gobbling them up. Good crystal country as well. Wire rope and such at the base of the La Bohn gap talus suggests there may briefly have been an ore tram or at least preparations for such. There is also an old mine tram grip at the big camp right before the Foss ford. I've never seen anything in print about it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 A little beyond La Bohn gap in the Chain Lakes I found a water filled mine shaft or a quarry site at the very least. The water reeked of sulphur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 A little beyond La Bohn gap in the Chain Lakes I found a water filled mine shaft or a quarry site at the very least. The water reeked of sulphur. There are nice cubes of what I thank are Galena there if you root around in the muck. There was a very serious proposal for production at that mine; it got fairly far in the FS permit process. They were going to take the concentrate out to the south on a wide trail using something called a 'gyro carrier'...some sort of low impact giddeup. This was about the same point in history as the birth of Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The proposal died (conjecture has it) from equal parts environmental apoplexy and the knowledge that from both the low cost and free rape standpoints the third world is mining heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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