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Carbon river/glacier hike.
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Ty.
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Beautiful pics.
10/1-2 Carbon trip
Dave and I headed up to the mountain again this weekend to finally get up to the glacier.
We headed out saturday morning for the ranger station and began our hike around 11am.
Not far into the hike, we stopped in at the Washington Mining and Milling Co. Mine. This one is alot larger in diameter than the Clipper mine across the valley, but the FS has built a heavy angle iron fence about 10 feet in, so there's no exploring this one. :booo:
Me in my best "crazy woodsman" attire. :redneck:
We got to the Ipsut campgrounds around 1:30, and luckily due to the rumor of bad weather, we were the only ones there. It actually turned out to be pretty dry the whole time, with the exeption of a couple hours of off and on sprinkles on sunday. :fawkdancesmiley:
We decided to stick around camp the rest of saturday, and set out first thing sunday for the glacier. We stopped in at Ipsut falls to get some water for the trip.
Dave and I headed up to the mountain again this weekend to finally get up to the glacier.
We headed out saturday morning for the ranger station and began our hike around 11am.
Not far into the hike, we stopped in at the Washington Mining and Milling Co. Mine. This one is alot larger in diameter than the Clipper mine across the valley, but the FS has built a heavy angle iron fence about 10 feet in, so there's no exploring this one. :booo:
Me in my best "crazy woodsman" attire. :redneck:
We got to the Ipsut campgrounds around 1:30, and luckily due to the rumor of bad weather, we were the only ones there. It actually turned out to be pretty dry the whole time, with the exeption of a couple hours of off and on sprinkles on sunday. :fawkdancesmiley:
We decided to stick around camp the rest of saturday, and set out first thing sunday for the glacier. We stopped in at Ipsut falls to get some water for the trip.
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This is a shot of the "icicle king" looking hillside from earlier in the thread.. not so menacing looking in the late summer...
The FS has repaired the lower crossing, but the trail to the south side of the river is still washed out.
The footbridge over the main part of the river.
A shot upstream
A wider shot upstream
We got to the suspension bridge and made the short hike to Carbon camp.
And the view we had made the journey to see.
The FS has repaired the lower crossing, but the trail to the south side of the river is still washed out.
The footbridge over the main part of the river.
A shot upstream
A wider shot upstream
We got to the suspension bridge and made the short hike to Carbon camp.
And the view we had made the journey to see.
CHOP SHOP
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Is the road still open to the Ipsut creek campground? Or do you have to park back before the flood damage on the entry road?
Negative.
The road is closed at the Ranger station. The 4.9 miles of road between the ranger station and Ipsut campgrounds is now hiking/biking only. Hiking only past Ipsut.
They have been doing alot of work on the old road/new trail and at the Ipsut campground. All of the washouts along carbon river road have foot bridges now. They have a couple bobcats and a mini at the campground, and a front loader/backhoe parked about 3 miles in.
The new bridge at ipsut. (the old bridge is still there, the creek just shifted over about 100'. I think last year they just had a single log walking bridge there.)
The new solar powered shitters. :redneck::eeek:
And they've put these in at every campsite, I assume the eye bolts are to chain bikes to.
CHOP SHOP
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Damn! Thats a 8.5 mile hike in then! 17 miles round trip.
