Downey Creek — Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

The Suiattle River Road is mostly clear with a few blowdowns on the sides you can go around and two very small trees you can drive over as long as you have a high clearance vehicle. Snow starts to get deeper near the end I would definitely not recommend anything without 4wd and high clearance. This was my first time on the Downey Creek Trail and someone had gone before so there was a nice path beat out in the snow for us. We followed this for a little over a mile until it stopped. The snow at that point was about up to my knees and not knowing the trail or having snow shoes we decided to turn around. Up until that point there was only one minor blowdown on the trail that was easily stepped over. The forest in snow was beautiful I cant wait to explore more of the Suiattle area this summer.

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