Trip recommendations, current conditions, and other trail related Q&A
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Splintercat
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by Splintercat » July 27th, 2014, 8:14 am
If you've been waiting for the scheduled June 27 reopening of the Cloud Cap Road after more than a year of closure, you're going to wait a little longer: the Forest Service has extended the closure to allow for continued
commercial logging dangerous tree removal indefinitely, though
their website suggests it will reopen sometime this summer, after the remaining
marketable logs dangerous trees have been cut and hauled out.
Stay tuned...
Tom
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Peder
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by Peder » July 27th, 2014, 9:46 am
Tom - Thanks for the update. What can I say? Roll my eyes?
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kepPNW
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by kepPNW » July 27th, 2014, 10:11 am
I called the Hood River office a week or so ago, and they said "mid-August" then.
Ah well, in the meanwhile, Cooper Spur offers near-complete solitude.
Karl
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Roy
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by Roy » July 27th, 2014, 8:09 pm
Splintercat wrote:
to allow for continued dangerous tree removal indefinitely it will reopen sometime this summer, after the remaining dangerous trees have been cut and hauled out.
Stay tuned...
Tom
You must be referring to those killer trees
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-Q-
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by -Q- » July 28th, 2014, 9:37 am
AHHHHH, so frustrating
There go my Wednesday plans.
One of these years I will hike from Cloud Cap to Elk Cove
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mcgib
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by mcgib » July 31st, 2014, 5:51 pm
Is Copper Spur Ski area open for parking? If not, what's the best way to get to the Cooper Spur trail?
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kepPNW
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by kepPNW » July 31st, 2014, 6:04 pm
mcgib wrote:Is Copper Spur Ski area open for parking? If not, what's the best way to get to the Cooper Spur trail?
You can park at the gate on the road to Cloud Cap, and hike straight up from there.
http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... 7&e=145247
Karl
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mcgib
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by mcgib » July 31st, 2014, 6:15 pm
Thank you. Do you know how far up Cloud Cap Road the gate is? I assume then that one is allowed to walk up the closed road to Tilly Jane?
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kepPNW
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by kepPNW » July 31st, 2014, 6:27 pm
mcgib wrote:Thank you. Do you know how far up Cloud Cap Road the gate is? I assume then that one is allowed to walk up the closed road to Tilly Jane?
The gate is almost at the bottom. Trail is much shorter than road. Only 3.5 miles to Tilly Jane.
Karl
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