Necklace Valley

[Peter_Puget]

These must have been climbed?

[bigwalling]

where in the fuck is neckless valley???

[ScottP]

"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."

[dberdinka]

Cool shot. Never been in that area, how far in a hike is it? Rock doesn't look bad either....

[bigwalling]

ok, thanks I've never been up there. I'm interested in the rock not the ice.

[Alasdair]

Hey when was that first photo shot?

[philfort]

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.

[Peter_Puget]

oops sorry wrong valley...that first pic is of THE Valley.

 

[Bug]

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.

[dbb]

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.

[lancegranite]

Bring a fishing rod...

[MisterMo]

...and about a quart of DEET

[Dave_Schuldt]

Cool wandering in that area. I've there via the Middle Fork Road.

[Bug]

...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.

[MisterMo]

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.

[nolanr]

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.

[MisterMo]

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.