Devils Creek Bridge
Cary, Peter, Danny, Austin, Greg, & Bill P.
The Ross Lake Mini-Miler was a four day, three night backpacking trip up and back the East Bank Trail along Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park. Normally, the highway is gated four miles from the trailhead, but a light snowpack and a mild winter led to the early opening of the highway so that we could do this trail in early April. Totals for the hike were 32 miles with 4500 feet in elevation gained.
For a longer narrative about this trip [CLICK HERE]
Adults on this trip:
Bill Mooseker,Greg Phillips, Bill Peckinpaugh
Scouts on this trip:
Brian Sisk, Jason Smith, Adam Phillips, Danny Stallings, Cary Walker, Peter Goodwin,
Kyle Meissner, Austin Peckinpaugh, Shelby Stong
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Troop 24 "The High Adventure Troop" Backpacking Trip
-Cascade Bill Mooseker
Date(s): April 1998. Album by Cascade Bill. 1 - 26 of 26 Total. 320 Visits.
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enlarge 312KB, 768x1024 2 98-298-004 Adam at our camp at Rainbow point
When we got to camp, there was a little confusion in that Adam forgot to bring a tent for him and Jason. We had to do some switcheroos by putting them in Shelby's tent and putting Shelby with someone else.
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Bill Peckinpaugh, Kyle Meissner, Brian Sisk, Austin Peckinpaugh, Adam Phillips, Greg Phillips, Shelby Stong, Pete Goodwin, Chip Walker, Danny Stallings
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Rainbow Point is a boat-in camp, but this early in the season the lake is drawn down to accommodate the snow runoff. This means that you have a steep 60-70 foot climb down to lake level to get water and then humping the 5 gal jugs (40 lbs) up to camp.
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Looking north - the trail has been blasted out of the rocks above the lake.
Looking south - you can see the silver forest poking up from the lake. It will be submerged as runoff fills the lake.
enlarge 252KB, 1024x658 9 98-298-012 Crossing the Devils Creek Bridge Front: Peter, Chip & Austin Rear: Greg, Danny, Bill P.
enlarge 253KB, 1152x717 10 98-298-013 You can see Devils creek way down below
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"Diving Prohibited" - Even at full water elevation it still is quite a drop. (see HERE) for a photo of the bridge in August 1980 from Troop 24's Crater-Devils 50 miler.
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View of the guys on the bridge - you can see the high country is still covered in snow.
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enlarge 237KB, 1024x669 14 98-298-016 View of the end of the bridge
enlarge 313KB, 682x1024 15 98-298-017 Looking up Devils Creek from the bridge
enlarge 294KB, 1024x660 16 98-298-018 Further up the lake is this bridge over Lightning Creek.
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We camped at the Lightning Creek camp. We hiked up the lake to get this view looking south.
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enlarge 243KB, 1024x657 21 98-299-004 Heading north along the shore
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If you enlarge the photo, you can see Adam way in front. He got pissed at us when we found him putting part of his "pile" of troop gear in someone else's pile.
We camped again at Rainbow Point for our last night. We got into camp fairly early so we built a fire and bullshitted around it for hours on end. Chip made a comment: "I haven't moved for 4 hours".
We had a little excitement when Adam took a spoon from Greg's pack over his dad's objection. Greg threw Adam's pack into the woods, a wrestling match ensued which we named "Saturday Night Nitro". We all thought that Greg won, although the next day Adam claimed that he had "Whupped" his dad.
