More info on Glacier Creek Road

[Baker Guides]

Apparently the washout is around Mile 2.7. Road is barricaded though at the Thompson Creek bridge at MP 1. Please don't contact the forest service regarding this issue yet.

 

http://mtbakerguides.com/glacier-creek-road-closure/

Edited May 16, 2013 by Baker Guides

[christophbenells]

did this happen in the last week?

 

we drove to 2.7 miles of the trailhead a week ago...where a snowbank stopped driving.

 

there was a big washout though that we camped next to that looked pretty unsafe...

[JasonG]

Yes, in the last week. From talking my FS employee neighbor, it sounds like it is in the canyon, before the road crosses to the LB of Glacier Creek. In this section, the road is fairly level, very narrow, with at least one historic washout. Sounds like the river cut the toe of the slope and the almost the entire road prism failed into the creek, quite a ways below. It is likely to be closed for a long time, even if the FS had money to fix it, which they don't.

 

I'd imagine talking to your electeds would be a called for, but I guess we can wait and see what the FS assessment says. The failure may not be done yet.