Big Creek — Monday, Jan. 24, 2022

Driving up to Big Creek, the road is clear and snow-free but we saw obvious signs of the recent wind and snow events.  The road has big banks of snow from plowing on both sides and a lot of snow in the woods along the drive up.  We arrived at 11 to a full lot (later discovered this was a work party working to clear the trail).

the work party informed us that they had cleared 1 mile of trail going counter clockwise and they had cleared almost to the loop junction going clockwise.  The remainder of the loop is a mess of downed trees, branches and snow in the trail.

we did talk to a couple who had completed the loop counter-clockwise and they also emphasized how difficult the trail was with them getting lost and post-holing due to the many downed trees.

with these reports in hand, we turned back and descended the way we had come up.  From Dicks Rock up there is intermittent snow (we used spikes on the way down as a convenience but could have done it without the spikes)