CCC Road: Blowout Creek Trailhead — Monday, Mar. 8, 2004

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

The CCC road has been blown quite spectactularly by a debris flow off the denuded upper reaches of the Green-Bessemer ridge. The runout zone, below the road, is some acres in extent. The road is interrupted by walls of debris six or seven feet high, lining a bouldery wash where the road used to be. The site is about a mile downvalley from where the Bessemer road intersects it. The logging and road network high on the ridge that was the cause of all this dates back to the seventies. An object lesson in the long latencies and lingering aftereffects of high-elevation logging and roadbuilding. As the CCC road gets less road-like, it gets nicer to walk.