Entries filed under 'Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest'

After 7 Years, Repairs of Storm-Damaged Pacific Crest Trail Nearly Complete

God willin' and the creeks don't rise, literally, a long-closed stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington will reopen to backcountry travel in 2011. Impassable to all but the hardiest souls since October 2003, when a colossal rainstorm triggered floodwaters that wiped out 8 trail bridges, a 45-mile section of the PCT in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness is undergoing its final, and largest, repair project--spanning the wide, fast-moving Suiattle River. Once the gap is closed, probably ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on September 15, 2010 5:02 PM & Tagged Gary Paull, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, PCT, PCT detour, Pacific Crest Trail, Suiattle River and trail repair | permalink | Comments