Jolly Mountain Spur #1307.1,Skookum Mtn scramble,Sasse Mountain #1340,Jolly Mountain #1307

As is usual, we looked to the east side of the Pass for a rainy Sunday adventure, and decided on the climb of Jolly and Skookum as described in the 75 scrambles book. While generally everything goes as described, we found that the forest road 4315 is now gated at the 4800' mark, basically the last switchback in the road before getting to the pass. The first bit is an easy road walk, maybe 1/2 mile. From there, the old trail is unmarked and hard to follow, then runs into the road, which from the pass is being ""put to bed"", been chewed up with a dozer of some kind, and is very hard to walk!! We met some folks not having much fun pushing their mountain bikes up it. Anyways, we got to the next saddle at around 5400', and met the ""real"" trail, that is a motorcycle trail. I have hiked on some of these before, but this one is one of the worst in terms of erosion. All the steep areas and switchbacks are deep gullies, channels for snow run-off. I contacted the USFS to find out what plans they have for this former road and for managing the trails better. Anyways, apart from all that, great views despite a lowering cloud level, an old lookout site, fabulous flower displays, rare bugs!!!, and a great scramble to Skookum, with fun rocks at the top. A good day...