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Took me three hours to find the right river crossing on the Eagle Cap loop
I was following the GPS track from a trip report, but the usual logjam was gone after spring floods. Ended up bushwhacking almost a mile upstream before I found a safe spot to wade. How do you guys handle it when a route's key landmark is just gone?
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norag552mo ago
My buddy had that happen on a trip in the North Cascades. The trail was supposed to follow a clear creek bed, but a landslide had totally filled it in with rocks and mud. He spent half a day trying to match the map to this new pile of rubble. They finally just climbed the ridge next to it and went by line of sight, which was super slow going. It really messed up their whole schedule for that day.
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dylanward1mo ago
Climbed the ridge next to it" - that's exactly what a friend of mine had to do in Glacier National Park last summer. The whole trail just vanished where a creek cut a new channel and washed the path out completely. They ended up bushwhacking for like two hours to get back on track and it totally threw off their plan to hit a lake by noon.
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