Cascade River Road

[colt45]

Anyone been up Cascade River Road recently? The forest service website says it is snowed in before Marble Creek...but the site said the same thing two weeks ago and the warm weather must have melted SOME of that snow.

[skykilo]

I was thinking precisely the same thing.

[Cobra_Commander]

"I can skin for miles and miles, I can skin for miles and miles, I can skin for miles and miles and miles and miles and miiiilllles."

 

 

[Dechristo]

o-oh yea-eeyah

[EscalarK2]

Has anyone been up there recently? Is the road clear to the gate at Eldorado Creek?

[Alpine_Tom]

Why doesn't cascadeclimbers.com have a spy satellite with a webcam on it? That way we could just point and click, and not have to bother with the forest service.

Whatever happened to the puppy cam -- couldn't you repurpose it, Jon?

[Animal]

I drove up the road on March 31st. I was able to drive past the switch backs where tou would access the South Cascade Galcier, I beliebe this is the South Fork of the Cascade River. I turned around where some locals were cutting apart a tree that was across the road. To this point there was not snow. this was not far from Eldorado Creek. The tree should be gone now!

[Billygoat]

[MisterMo]

I turned around where some locals were cutting apart a tree that was across the road. To this point there was not snow. this was not far from Eldorado Creek. The tree should be gone now!

 

Once upon a time I awoke in Boston Basin to this:

 

Thinking hard about a ham and cheese omelette in a dry restaurant booth in Marblemount I splashed out and drove all of about two miles before I encountered this:

 

It was well into afternoon before these guys showed up with saws. So much for breakfast.

 

 

 

[kurthicks]

I got an e-mail saying that the road was washed out about 1.5 miles before the Boston Basin TH. Supposedly there will be parking at that location and we can walk from there until the damage is repaired.

[tthirloway]

As of yesterday, the road was blocked by trees at about mile 18.5, with a couple more downed trees across the road before the gate at mile 20.

 

After mile 20, the road is significantly washed out in a couple places, but it's easy enough to get across the wash-outs on foot.

[chris]

How big are the trees? Do they require a chainsaw, or could a good hand saw/axe take care of things?

[tthirloway]

You're going to need a chainsaw - but it would only save you a mile and a half of walking, so...

[scot'teryx]

any current conditions?

[wbk]

anyone been up the side road that goes to the Snowking trailhead? any conditions update on this?

[DPS]

anyone been up the side road that goes to the Snowking trailhead? any conditions update on this?

I was just talking to a colleague yesterday who mentioned he was able to get up most of the way to the trail head but there was some blow down blocking access all the way. He said the snow line was surprisingly high, around 3,000 feet.

[scot'teryx]

You can now drive to the Eldo TH as of Sunday 4/15

[plexus]

Is this blowdown blocking to where you usually drive to and park or is it afterwards. You've had to hike the road for around a mile before you get to the trailhead for a few years now.

 

I have one of Shurlock's winter photos of Snowking as my desktop. I wish I had tried to ski it when I still lived out there.

[wbk]

Anyone been up hidden lake peak? Any idea if you can get up Forest Road 1540 at all?

[wbk]

Still haven't made it up to Hidden Lake Peak to check things out and planning to head up there. Anybody have any update on the road/conditions/amount of snow?

 

Thanks

[ultragrrl]

I know when I drove down Cascade River Road at the beginning of June (so 3 weeks ago). The road to Hidden Lake Peak trailhead was gated at the road.