Cascade River Road conditions

[TobiasT]

Has anyone been out the Cascade River Road recently? How far could one get in a truck?

Thanks,

[dave schultz]

Might be a well kept secret, or not, but I got all the way to the end of the road (F250) on Saturday (12/21). Should be even easier today since we haven't gotten much, if any, snow up there since. The shwack up Elderado was pretty terrible, though. The boulder/talus field had about 3 inches of snow covering everything and not enough was filled in to make it easily passable.

[kevino]

Dave, you ski the east ridge?

[dave schultz]

That was the plan, but got started too late (didn't think the road would even go) and since I had never been there before and I was not going to get far enough before it got dark I bailed rather than risk bivying in a bad spot.

[JasonG]

By the "end" you mean the eldo gate?

[dave schultz]

By "end" I mean there was a gate that was about a mile or so past where you would part for the Elderado approach, I think the approach for Boston Basin would have been a little bit further along past the closed gate; but the limiting factor was the gate, not the road condition.