Angel's - Devil's Rest loop from Wahkeena?
Posted: October 26th, 2020, 4:43 pm
Trying to figure out if this is (1) technically open, and (2) reasonably hikeable. There are still some closure maps up that show the section of #415 trail between Wahkeena Springs and Angel's Rest as closed, but on the FS website it just lists the trail as open, with no qualifiers about sections being closed. I'm getting the idea that it's maybe not actually forbidden at this point, but discouraged because it hasn't been maintained/cleared?
I see a couple tracks posted on alltrails that seem to show people going through there recently, plus one post of someone apparently complaining how horrible that stretch was, but I have no context for whether it's genuinely terrible or more like the "messy but passable" that that stretch so often is. I'm good climbing over and around a bunch of down trees, but I'm not into having to force my way through a whole scratchy forest of branches, or stuff that's outright dangerous to get past. I do know it's not the place to be in high winds.
Also wondering about conditions on the Foxglove stretch between Angel's and Devil's.
I see a couple tracks posted on alltrails that seem to show people going through there recently, plus one post of someone apparently complaining how horrible that stretch was, but I have no context for whether it's genuinely terrible or more like the "messy but passable" that that stretch so often is. I'm good climbing over and around a bunch of down trees, but I'm not into having to force my way through a whole scratchy forest of branches, or stuff that's outright dangerous to get past. I do know it's not the place to be in high winds.
Also wondering about conditions on the Foxglove stretch between Angel's and Devil's.