I have been up here counless times on my KTM, but only once on my sled. We took the usual trail i ride up in the summer, with few tracks. Not friendly for beginers. Got up there and there was a million people! What am i missing? I want to take the Lady up there, but fear that crap little trail, that nobody else took, will put me in the dog house!
Easier access to gallagher?
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The jeep trail is the easiest way, it gets a little wooped up,but its still easy.I've brought first timers up that way without a complaint.
never sleded this area, how far from seattle??
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nikeholley
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Where do you catch the Jeep trail..??.. I, too have been there in the summer... but from the Teanaway side...
Cross Fortune Creek, pass up the jeep trail and ride another mile or 2 to where the groomer quits grooming. Should be a ribbon on a tree on the left. Follow the trail and you'll come out at the bottom of chaincase hill - take a right onto the jeep trail just before heading up that hill.
Just don't use this route during high Avy danger, the hill your right as you come out of the trees lets go on a regular basis.....
Just don't use this route during high Avy danger, the hill your right as you come out of the trees lets go on a regular basis.....
'bout 100 miles to the snowpark - Gallagher is about 15 miles in from where you park......
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proflexbeast
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just curious, i have never hit (snowmobiled) the van epps and gallaher head area. Are those two areas accessed up fortune creek FSR 160? I hear that this is a great area to ride. I have taken my horses and went on a few horsepack trips over the past summers up big boulder creek and around the headwaters of the north and middle fork of the teanaway rivers (esmeralda peaks, koppen mtn etc.) just south of gallaher (gallagher ?).... i would like to ride my sled in that area but those i sled with usually do not drive all the way over from the west side nor have they been in the area (they ride the greenwater area) I would like to try something new. Does that area receive alot of snow and is it pretty open up towards the top? any answers would be great.
Beast - Both accessed via Fortune Creek Rd. - Van Epps/Lk. Anne, you turn off and head up just before the road crosses Fortune Creek - Should have someone lead you in the first time, the trail is not marked and there are different routes in depending on ice and the ability of the rider.
For Gallagher, cross Forturne creek, the jeep trail is your 2nd left (about 1/2 to 3/4 mile after you cross Fortune. An easier way in is described above. Don't even think about access via Boulder Creek. I did that once on a motorcycle by myself and it was work; not to mention crossing the face of a mountain on a goat trail.
You can also get to Gallagher area to Lk. Anne via Chaincase hill, it head up from the Jeep Trail. Plenty of open area up there.....
For Gallagher, cross Forturne creek, the jeep trail is your 2nd left (about 1/2 to 3/4 mile after you cross Fortune. An easier way in is described above. Don't even think about access via Boulder Creek. I did that once on a motorcycle by myself and it was work; not to mention crossing the face of a mountain on a goat trail.
You can also get to Gallagher area to Lk. Anne via Chaincase hill, it head up from the Jeep Trail. Plenty of open area up there.....
I don't know why anyone goes there...... the riding is horrible......
Well guess what boys..... with a snow year like last year, you can go up Boulder Creek. If you like trees..and lots of them and steep side hills with said trees then you're in for a great time. I would suggest that you be the first or second in the group to go. The third guy on usually has a bad attitude before it's all done.
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proflexbeast
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Thanks LCM, ive been up the boulder creek drainage with my pack horses and you are not kidding about the area being steep and thick with timber..... had one pack horse go over the side on my way over to camp creek from big boulder creek....pretty steep in some areas....and i was following a pretty good animal trail. horse was fine however had equipment spread down the hill. I most certainly will have to get my peeps to get over there to sled the area with me.
^^^^ that sucks...
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