Boulder River
Jan 31, 1998
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Boulder River
- Region: North Cascades -- West Slope
- Agency: Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Darrington Ranger District
- Trails: Boulder River (#734)
- Avg Rating: 3.76
I went outside! Not for
fun, ofcourse, but to work. We hiked the Boulder River trail to the 3 mp without encountering any snow. Here we stopped and went to work. A log foot bridge built in '84 had been clobbered by a large (3' diameter) Douglas fir that fell on top of it breaking in two and knocking it down stream. The Douglas was purfectly postioned for it itself to become a foot log so with a crew of seven and three crosscuts we went to work flattening the log. We used our crosscuts to saw slices into the log and then knocked them out with a pulaski, sledge hammer or double-bit (the double bit worked best, but don't tell John Howell that since he carried the 12lb seldge in). In just one day we managed to flatten out some 40' leaving a 1½ foot wide tread. The crew returned on Sunday to finish the job placing rounds to step onto the bridge on either end. Hopefully this one will last longer than the last one did.
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