Christmas Weekend Road Observations

Submitted by conrad on Sat, 12/24/2005 - 07:18
As the last post for the road was the 18th here is a new thread with some observations. We drove snow machines up to the climbs on Friday. People were able to drive to the trailhead. The road is most problematic around Langhor and the hill going to the bridge. The warm spell softened the snow making vehicles wallow up to their axles. Above the bridge, to the dam and trailhead is better as it remained frozen. Should be excellent climbing! Friday was great. ps.... the strong man in the above image would have been 47 today.... time to go pull!

Visited the canyon yesterday, the 29th of December, after the most recent snowfall. Rode up on a snowmachine. The snow is quite deep, especially near the bridge. The east end of the dam is drifting quite nicely. No vehicles made it up to the trailhead, one truck made it to the Palisade parking lot. If your idea of fun is 4 wheeling in adverse conditions then Hyalite is the equivilent of a 5.11 finger crack. Demanding, but not off the charts. Be safe, Contad