April 8-9, 2004, Teanaway, Mt. Stuart
4/8/04
WA Cascades East Slopes Central
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This post was from sb on 04/19/04 at 9:13pm, and I have copied it to this new thread so that the rest of the discussion about snowmobiles can be consolidated into a single thread in Random Tracks.
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TR by sb:
"Chris Hamel and I tried to ski the SE slope on Mt. Stuart. No we didn't quite make it - it's a long ways for a 2 day trip and we should not have wasted time, having fun skiing in Beverly Creek basin the evening before. It's a surprisingly beautiful route, opening up wide and smooth a few thousand feet up the gully.
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Snow machine tracks covered much of Beverly Creek Basin. We don't know exactly how they got there, but Chris thought it was legal. Not legal though is going over the Beverly-Turnpike Pass with a snow machine and down into Ingalls Creek Basin (Alpine Lakes Wilderness). And there were tracks going a long ways down and then diverting from our route. I'm going to complain and hope that one day the FS takes this problem seriously. There is no evidence that they do yet! I've also seen them in the Mt. Baker Wilderness (Welcome Pass and Church Mtn) and the Pasayten Wildeerness (Buffalo Pass and the West Fork of Pasayten River). I suspect they are in these places every winter weekend."
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TR by sb:
"Chris Hamel and I tried to ski the SE slope on Mt. Stuart. No we didn't quite make it - it's a long ways for a 2 day trip and we should not have wasted time, having fun skiing in Beverly Creek basin the evening before. It's a surprisingly beautiful route, opening up wide and smooth a few thousand feet up the gully.
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Snow machine tracks covered much of Beverly Creek Basin. We don't know exactly how they got there, but Chris thought it was legal. Not legal though is going over the Beverly-Turnpike Pass with a snow machine and down into Ingalls Creek Basin (Alpine Lakes Wilderness). And there were tracks going a long ways down and then diverting from our route. I'm going to complain and hope that one day the FS takes this problem seriously. There is no evidence that they do yet! I've also seen them in the Mt. Baker Wilderness (Welcome Pass and Church Mtn) and the Pasayten Wildeerness (Buffalo Pass and the West Fork of Pasayten River). I suspect they are in these places every winter weekend."
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