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Blowdowns | Mudholes | Water on trail
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Hobbes (dog) and I parked at the May Valley Rd trailhead at noon and was only the second car there. ...
Hobbes (dog) and I parked at the May Valley Rd trailhead at noon and was only the second car there. Ahh the perks of having Mondays off. Started up the trail, they were in good shape and the sun actually peeked out. Not for long, as the ski grew extremely dark and it began to hail for about 10 min with some actual accumulation! We followed the Bullitt CK trail until the junction of the west peak trail, and then took the boot path to the summit cell towers.Summit tie 2:00 PM The connector trail has alot of muddy spots and as does parts of the bullitt trail. Took Phil's Creek down and noticed a few Salmonberry flowering in the April weather. Equestrian trail is closed, so I ended up taking the road down from this junction.
Phil's Creek #SQUAK-S3,Bullitt Fireplace #SQUAK-C2,Valley Connector #SQUAK-C3
— Mar 16, 2003
— B&C
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Day use parking at the trailhead off SE May Valley Rd is $5.00 - be prepared. Other trip reports ha...
Day use parking at the trailhead off SE May Valley Rd is $5.00 - be prepared. Other trip reports have alluded to the vagaries of trail names and the numerous unlabelled paths that are not included on the Green Trails map or have been added since its 1999 publication. We can vouch for that. This is a great place to practice navigational skills since the signposts are non-existent or unreliable. We made a counterclockwise loop from the Equestrian Trail (S4) to Phil's Creek to Central Peak - a 1500 ft elevation gain. Not a horse or a soul. Where is everybody? It's true that there is only a slice of a view from the unaesthetic peak, but everything else is in place - ravines and draws, copses and bowers, Oregon Grape and beards of moss. On the return south from Bullitt Fireplace we had to cross through the tape that had closed a trail for renovation, but what choice did we have? WTA appears to be seriously shoring things up and parts of the trails are looking quite civilized. It would be nice if they were allowed someday to announce their names.
May Valley,Bullitt Fireplace #SQUAK-C2,Central Peak #SQUAK-C1,Valley Connector #SQUAK-C3,West Peak #SQUAK-W3,Perimeter Loop Trail #SQUAK-PLT,South Access #SQUAK-S1
— Jan 13, 2002
— Colonel Sparky Murphy
Day hike
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Blowdowns
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The Valley Connector and West Peak Trail junction with the Bullitt Fireplace Trail is as shown on t...
The Valley Connector and West Peak Trail junction with the Bullitt Fireplace Trail is as shown on the Green Trail map (as opposed to what was reported earlier). They are just buried under a mass of logs. |
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