CCC Road: Blowout Creek Trailhead — Thursday, May. 6, 1999

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

The CCC Road was one of those projects during the Great Depression. It's a very impressive route up the Middle Fork valley. Seems that we owe many of our highways, roads and trails to the CCC, back when America had money to invest in people and people programs during the Dark Ages before they found a much more noble necessity - corporate welfare and paying Ken Starr to peek in people's bedrooms. We started at MP10 of the Middle Fork Road. It's always a fun drive down the Middle Fork because we use curse words that have been long forgotten. The trailhead is at point 959 on the topo, where the Middle Fork Road curves sharply right. The CCC Road goes back to the left. There are a few windfalls over the trail and two of them lie across the trail. This was a well-built roadbed because there are only a few muddy spots. After nearly three miles, the CCC Road intersects an active service road. We headed up this road, marked by switchbacks, to a waterfall (marked on the USGS topo), heretofore unnamed, but now dubbed MacGyver Falls. The weather was overcast with occasional showers, with wet snow above 2000 feet. Trillum, yellow violet and salmonberry are in flower. There is a very spooky part of the trail where one could probably see lions and tigers and bears, oh my.