Bryon Boyce said:
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Here is the next one. This is taken from a spot off-trail with
the abandoned trail in the far end of the grassy meadow. This is in a
wilderness. There is a current trail in this valley. Name the valley!
I don't really know as I've never been there but I've seen photos that makes me think this is Pansy Basin. In either case I need to get out that way.
--Paul
Since I guessed the last one by process of elimination without ever being there, you win!
Its your turn to post.
Pansy Basin has much to offer. The current official trail, the abandoned trail, off-trail routes, hidden waterfalls and campsites, a huge landslide and the disappearing stream which reappears as the lake perched on large boulders shown below. It only appears when groundwater is high, like this year.
The current closure of Bull of the Woods Wilderness is keeping me from finding the lake hidden near the knife-edged tip of western wall of this valley.
So where does this abandoned trail go?
I havn't found where it comes out at the trailhead, it simply disappears. So going offtrail is the way to find it at least at first. It traverses on the east side downhill from the current trail, crosses Pansy Meadows, and goes steeply up the west side to a lake above the old horse camp which is above Pansy Lake. A six foot thick fir fell right down the trail in 1996 above the camp, hiding the trail. Past that it passes the old mining shaft, goes up and down majorly, and eventually zig zags up the south headwall. It was the original trail hooking Bagby to Bull through Pansy Basin.
I tried once to follow this trail north from the Pansy Basin Trailhead, but lost it in clearcuts. Its downhill from the blocked off road at least at first.
Bryon Boyce said:
Since I guessed the last one by process of elimination without ever being there, you win!
Its your turn to post.
Pansy Basin has much to offer. The current official trail, the abandoned trail, off-trail routes, hidden waterfalls and campsites, a huge landslide and the disappearing stream which reappears as the lake perched on large boulders shown below. It only appears when groundwater is high, like this year.
The current closure of Bull of the Woods Wilderness is keeping me from finding the lake hidden near the knife-edged tip of western wall of this valley.
The picture I referred to was from this trip report on Portland Hikers:
http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5231&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
I've been wanting to get out that way for a while. There may be some stuff in there that might help you efforts.
Here's a photo - what trail, now in wilderness, did I use to arrive at this view?
