Static Point HELP

[zenyetta]

Does anyone out here in washington know how to get to static point. I attempted getting up there today and got really lost. I couldn't find the trail.

ANY help?

[Otto]

Sign in at the parking lot with the bathroom, say you're climbing and not shooting the place up with guns. There are three roads with gates, take the middle one. After crossing the little bridge, take the first right, drive to the end at a big log crossing the road. Hike up the road, at a big culvert section, not the first one, with a cairn on top, take a left up the hill on a good trail.

Check out McCarthy/Carlstad up the left side of the Pillar, it's beautiful.

[zenyetta]

humm, still confused!

[zenyetta]

I took the right after the bridge, then I went as far as I could drive (tree down) and hiked for about half a mile. I couldn't find any trails??? When was the last time you where there? How far do you have to hike in? ANYTHING!

[slothrop]

I was going to write a long-winded description, but it's really just what Otto says. I think it's about an hour total to the base of Online, or ~40 minutes to the trail up into the woods. Fuddhat/Kill da Wabbit is highly recommended.

[Otto]

It sounds like he needs to nail down the time/distance to the big culvert where you turn uphill. Zenny, try 40 minutes next time! It will be obvious, the road suddenly gets very overgrown.

[icegirl]

yeah, it's longer than you think to get in 40+min easy... and the cairn is not hard to miss.

 

along the way you may see: piles of shotgun shells, a redneck stream with old TVs, dead microwaves etc.. in it. Also, I vaguely remember more than just one big culvert before the one with the cairn...

[Drederek]

Is the tree with all the rap slings on it still at the base?

[zenyetta]

Is it 40 minutes from the path and up or is it forty minutes from car to base. I am a poor confused soul. What the hell is wrong with me I still dont understand.

There are carins?

[mattp]

Don't worry, Zanyetta - you can find it.

 

For what its is worth, I think 40 minutes from the car to the turnoff may be a bit generous, but it is probably not far off. I've never timed it. If it only takes 39 1/2 minutes, don't worry.

 

The culvert in question is about the second or third one you come to, ripped out of the ground and deposited on the far side of the ditch/stream it used to serve. I believe you get a bit of a view upslope and maybe even see some granite up there in the crossing immediately before the correct one. The old culvert has dirt in it, and a cairn on top (unless somebody has knocked it down as many people like to do wtih cairns).

 

The trail cuts back up the bank above the culvert, angling up left and entering blueberries or huckleberries or whatever, and quickly into the deep shade of real timber.

 

As noted above, you will probably notice the road becoming more overgrown if you continue after the culvert becaulse we have done some brushing along the "trail" in years past but didn't continue along the road beyond that point. If you walk five or ten minutes more, you get to a point where the road bed is very close to the creek and you can cross over to an old clearcut on the other side for a good view of the crag.

[chucK]

Hike up the road, until you come to this thing

It may or may not have a cairn stacked on top of it.

 

Once you get to this sandworm pipe, you must crawl through it (may want to take off your pack first). After crawling through the pipe, turn left, double back a little to your pack. You should be now looking back down the road you walked up. At this point look to your right (uphill), where you should spot a good trail. Follow that until you reach a big beautiful granite slab.

 

Important Note: For these directions to work correctly, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU CRAWL THROUGH THE PIPE. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP!!!!

 

 

Here's a map to help out some more

[chucK]

And another map that might help

[slothrop]

And for God's sake, crawl back through the pipe in the opposite direction on the way out!