Teanaway area roads

[JoshK]

Has anybody tried to acces the beverly or stafford creek trails? are the THs accessible or will there be roadwalkinbullshitiness do deal with?

 

thanks!

[Dan_Miller]

This post from NWHikers.net, may assist in determining the relative accessibility of the Teanaway and its upper branches:

 

Wed May 28, 2008 9:41 am

 

 

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Two more bits of possibly useful info, plus a reminiscence:

 

1) By this coming weekend, I bet the hike:ski ratio will be a tad high for my tastes in Bean Creek Basin. I suspect there would still be skiable areas on the north-facing slopes.

 

2) The Teanaway road past Beverly Creek was blocked by a significant pile of snow sormewhere before we reached the Iron trailhead. We investigated tihs on the theory that if this road went past Iron, we'd rather ski up toward Ingalls Peak. If that road opens up over the course of this week, then the time would be about perfect for hitting Ingalls, which can have a high slog factor if you hit it just a little early or a little late.

 

And the reminiscence: in our first 3-4 trips skiing in Bean area, we found that when the road was clear to the trailhead, we picked up skiable snow at about the creek crossing. Once we even managed to ski over the creek on deep snow, had to take skis off for a brief bit of the Bean trail near the junction with the Beverly trail, and then were able to put skis back on for a glide nearly to the car parked at the trailhead! In the last several years, we seem to find that as soon as the road is open to or even just near to the trailhead, we have to hike to well above the creek crossing. There's something different about the deposition and/or meltout pattern in more recent years, and I don't like it!!

 

[MrsJumper]

Good Lord, my first post after years of lurking.

 

We just scouted this area today. The North Fork road is snow free to Beverly Creek campground. Beyond that to the end of the road, it's passable. There's snow in areas "across" the road, but those spots have been breached and are melting out rapidly.

 

The spur up to the Beverly Creek trailhead is clear, too.

 

The road did seem rougher than normal, but standard clearance should be fine all the way to the end of the road if you go slow.