This past Monday Bob and I went to see just how bad the road to the dam was, and this slide and one other small place made it difficult to get past. This area slides every year never fails to let go and normally by this time of year we haven't been able to get to the dam for over a month or two. A few weeks ago when it was raining and we were getting wet snow I thought for sure that the whole face of the backside of Phelps Ridge had let go and slid, well I was wrong. The owners had gone up there a week before and told me they had to do some digging to get by on snowmobiles because of the slide area letting go as usual.
As we got up to the settling tank we had no difficulty getting there and were feeling good about getting up to the dam but we had to do some cutting and digging to make it level enough to get past on the ATV. We found it to be gorgeous going up there and we even found several natual ski runs across the creek. They are accessible from the Phelps Creek TH and by doing a little skinning you can get over 2000' of verticle skiing done and end up at our road across the creek. We had a great time getting there and seeing all of the beautiful snow and ski runs normally cutoff during this time of year.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too.
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