12/31 Banker Pass is Open!

 Goat Creek to Sweetgrass is open!

The woodcutting crew opened the 5200 road over Banker Pass today and the groomer was able to groom from Goat Creek SP to Eightmile SP.

A big thank you to Zach, Andrew and Chris for all their hard work along with our groomer Mitch and Dave.

12/29 Grooming Update

 Goat Creek is open!

The Goat Creek trail is open. The woodcutting crew and groomer made it to Blackpine Hut, Goat Peak(beaver slide), and Whiteface. The trail is rough in spots and there is a snow bridge in Whiteface Creek.  Ride with caution in that area and down the beaver slide. 

A big thanks to Bud Stevie and Mike McHugh for cutting many trees yesterday including a 3 footer on Goat Wall.

The groomer is out again today with a woodcutting crew working from Whiteface to Banker Pass where another large tree is down.

Large tree in Goat Wall area

Bud and Mike - 5 trees so far

Whiteface Creek

Snow bridge on Whiteface Creek

12/28 Trail Condition Update

 

All of our trails were impacted by the winter storms resulting in lots of trees down making many of them impassable.  Water has been freely flowing over the roads and eroding edges of the trails. With current lower temperatures we are seeing less water flow.  Ride with caution and be safe!

Boulder SP - Not groomed. 2 trees down but passable. There is a big tree down at Tiffany. The trail to Baldy Pass is clear.

Cub Creek TH(new) - Trail up the 100 road is clear and ungroomed to Cub Pass.  The trail from Cub Pass to Sweetgrass is groomed.

Eightmile SP - 

            Eightmile to Sweetgrass – After 2 days of excavator work removing 40 plus trees the trail to Sweetgrass is open and groomed! There has been water over the road and it has narrowed the road in the Ortell area.  Sherwood Forest has 3 trees down and is not groomed

            Chewuch Loop – Not groomed. Lots of trees down on the East side, unknown conditions on the West side.

Goat Creek SP – Not groomed. Lots of trees down with large trees down on Goat Wall and one just East of Banker Pass.  A crew will be in on Monday 12/29, to begin removing the downed trees.

Silver Star SP – Not groomed. Currently SR 20 is closed from Early Winters to Silver Star SP. Selland is working on clearing the road.

Twisp River Area – Not groomed. Twisp River has a lot of downed trees. Skiers have cut narrow access through many of them. Conditions are unknown at this time for the Poorman Creek area.

Yellow Jacket SP – Not groomed.  Good snow depth has been reported along with lots of trees down in the trail. There has been lots of water also reported on the trail.

            Harts Pass – Reports of slides and a washout on the lower portion of the trail.  No new update on conditions.

12/27 Grooming Update

 Eightmile to Sweetgrass is Open!

We are happy to announce that after 2 days of excavator work, 3 people on saws and 40 plus trees were removed;  Eightmile to Sweetgrass is open and groomed for you to enjoy!  A big thank you to the hard working crew Ed, Dave, Bob and Mitch! The hut is also open to warm up.

Sherwood Forest loop has 3 trees down but is passable with some work.

In general we have lots of trees down on all of the trails.  We just received enough snow to get the groomer out to help with tree removal. We will be working on Goat on Monday. 

12/21Trail Condition Update

Goat Wall

Banker Pass

Whiteface

Eightmile to Cub Pass has about 40 trees down. All 16'-24" in size. There is about 8" of snow in the snopark and 2' at Cub Pass.

Cub Pass to Sweetgrass - drifting snow and 5-6 trees down and more snow! The hut is open.

Third Creek - not enough snow at trailhead. Snowmobiles turning up dirt.  Only a couple smaller trees down in that area to Cub pass.

Cub Pass to Banker - at least 1 very large tree at Banker.

Goat Creek - not enough snow for groomer to get out of snopark - lots of trees down and a very large 3+ foot diameter one on Goat Wall. Riders made it most of the way up Whiteface clearing some trees. Beaver slide area is unknown at this time.

Yellowjacket - Good snow on bottom but trail is full of trees and running water in the road going up.  Snow is thinner on top and lots of running water up there.  Also there is a reported washout on the lower portion of Harts Pass Road.

Hwy 20 - Selland is working on clearing the road from Early Winters to Silver Star SP.  They have a 30 day contract.

Boulder, Chewuch, Twisp River and Sherwood Forest conditions are unknown at this time.