Tubal Cain #840,Buckhorn Lake #845,Big Quilcene River #833.1,Constance Pass #99
Jul 29, 2007
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
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- Hike: Tubal Cain
- Region: Olympics -- East
- Trails: Tubal Cain (#840)
- Avg Rating: 3.00
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- Hike: Tubal Cain Mine and Buckhorn Lake
- Region: Olympics -- East
- Trails: Buckhorn Lake (#845)
- Avg Rating: 2.75
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- Hike: Marmot Pass - Upper Big Quilcene
- Region: Olympics -- East
- Agency: Olympic National Forest / Quilcene Ranger District
- Trails: Upper Big Quilcene River (#833.1), Marmot Pass (#)
- Avg Rating: 4.24
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- Hike: Constance Pass
- Region: Olympics -- East
- Trails: Constance Pass (#99)
- Avg Rating: 4.40
- Be Aware Of
- Blowdowns
- Water on trail
- Overgrown
We made a four-day traverse of the high country trails from the Tubal Cain trailhead to the Dosewallips River - miles and miles of alpine meadows in full bloom, interspersed with stands of alpine trees and the occasional scree slope to cross. The entire route was snow free. The Tubal Cain trail is in excellent shape, with only two blowdowns across the trail between Tubal Cain Mine and the Buckhorn Lake junction, one we crawled under and one we stepped over. A trail crew was at work clearing the last blowdown from the trail between Marmot Pass and Boulder Shelter and had also restored the tread where it had been eroded away on steep sidehills.
There does not appear to have been any maintenance on the Constance Pass trail so far this year. There are 3 or 4 blowdowns across the trail between Boulder Shelter and Home Lake and several more below Sunnybrook Meadows on the Dosewallips side. In Sunnybrook Meadows the trail is overgrown in places and the trail gets a bit lost in the streams, but is not difficult to follow.
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