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Pompey Peak, Klickitat Trail — Saturday, Sep. 3, 2016

South Cascades > White Pass/Cowlitz River Valley

Trip Report By

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Type of Hike

Day hike

Trail Conditions

Obstacles on trail:
    Trees down across trail,
    Overgrown in places.

Road

Road recommended for high clearance only

Bugs

No bugs

Snow

Snow free

Trails Hiked

  • Ripe berries
  • Hiked with a dog
Funny my guide book has the same picture of the top in the clouds
This trail was used for a recent run through the forest. I had heard it was cleaned out so I went there to see if it was any better than the last time. Some logs had been cut off of the trail but it is still pretty overgrown. Forest Road 20 is in bad shape a few miles before the trailhead. I got to it from Jackpot Lake. If the forest service doesn't fix it some of the road is going to slide. I got to the peak just as the clouds rolled in.
Road is worse than this in a few places
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Comments

Forest Road 20

FR 20 has a couple spots that with modest effort total washout could be prevented. Rebuilding will be much more expensive.

Posted by:


Olywa on Sep 04, 2016 10:50 AM

I agree

This is a great hike that would be more used if the road was better. It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to fix now but it has been getting worse over the years.

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gspdodger on Sep 04, 2016 03:49 PM