Taylor River #1002

When we called the ranger station and received a report of “Patches of snow, but completely passable”, we had no idea that this wording translated into 3-4 feet of snow-pack on the trail about a mile in and onward, and blow down like I have never imagined. We had intended to go the full 5 miles to the Concrete Bridge, but only made it to Marten Creek bridge, and that was a major effort without snow shoes…

The other factor was that the heat had created so much snow melt, that there were some dangerous water crossings to maneuver in the section of the trail preceding Marten Creek. I would say that the trail is totally passable, but even if you had snow shoes, you would be struggling over all of the blow down. Basically, this trail will need some massive clean up efforts to get it back to where it was back in November when I hiked it last.