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This topic seems to come up every year, but out of curiosity, how've people been getting over to synchronicity these days? Last year people reported that the log crossing was gone but with the low snow pack this year, the alternate approach via the scree slopes on the north bank of the cayoosh doesn't seem appealing.

 

Is it possible to wade the creek where the log bridge use to be? Ideas?

 

Cheers.

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Even in low-snow conditions, the advantage of the north-side approach along the creek bank is that it's mostly level. The boulders are mostly large, as I remember it you are walking around and clambering over them rather than sliding on ball-bearing scree.

If you park at the bridge, to walk all the way uphill on the road, and then down to the river, and reverse that coming out, adds something like 300-400m of total elevation gain to the day. The north bank approach is arguably more direct than this and is essentially flat (maybe 50m of elevation gain from the car to the start of the gully approach)

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... with the low snow pack this year, the alternate approach via the scree slopes on the north bank of the cayoosh doesn't seem appealing.

I've gone in along the creek twice when there was relatively little snow and, as Dru says, it's not that bad. You're in the trees most of the time and the boulders were easy to navigate. Even the guy we escorted out in the dark with a dislocated shoulder was able to do it!

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