Cooper River Snowshoe — Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019

As previous reported, snow level still holding on the trail. Much of the trail is thru the tress so watch out for snow melting off the branches over head but if no new snow this will not be an issue.  Started out at 9 am were the first on the trail.  Trail is marked and views of the river were beautiful.  Noted both skier and snowshoers using the trail.  We ran into several groups of snowshoers on the way in as we were leaving who were disregarding the trail signs to stay off the ski tracks and to stay to sides.  Also when we got back to the start of the trail noted many cars parked in the road turn around area clearly marked "no parking" and not further down in the clearly designated sno-park areas also most did not have out sno-park passes displayed, Illegally parked vehicles were making it hard for  a snow plow or vehicles with snowmobile trailers to to turn around their vehicles. Also would be hard for larger emergency vehicles to turn around.  Here is link to the trail map https://parks.state.wa.us/DocumentCenter/View/2233/Salmon-La-Sac?bidId=. Here is the link to sno park pass vendors https://parks.state.wa.us/147/Sno-Park-Permit-vendors