My plan today was to hit the McClellan Butte trail via the service roads – NF9020/NF9021/NF110 and NF210. Unfortunately, the NF210 route seems to be completely extinct. I would have had to route-find in the woods for .6 mile, hoping to intersect the trail – so I decided to save that for an outing with Derek.
I decided to see how far I could get on NF110 and where I got was to 3,400 feet where the snow was deep and continuous:
Not far from there I found evidence of a really big bear:
Just yesterday, Derek and I were going through some of his photos from our trip last June up NF110 to Truck Summit from the east. We commented on the two jagged, rocky prominences with what appeared to be a way to approach. And we were right, we aimed for the two rocks and were able to bushwhack up the ridge.
Not surprisingly, they are still there:
The track:
https://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/djhiker/nf110-5-14-2018#.WvoSLn8h2po
Going out tomorrow with Carl, who is freshly back from Italy.
Very big bear!
Yes, I was glad he wasn’t in the immediate neighborhood!