[pct-l] Landslide in Zigzag Canyon North of Timberline

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Carey,



Zigzag Canyon and Creek is approximately 2.6 miles north of Timberline Lodge
on Mt. Hood.  Your crew in Washington is golden.



Steel-Eye

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Carey <meandyou2go at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you for passing along this information.
>
> My boyfriend and about 10 other thru-hikers left Cascade Locks on Saturday.
> Right now his SPOT shows him just south of Indian Heaven in Gifford Pinchot
> National Forest (page 7  WA section H of HalfMiles maps). Have they already
> passed Zig Zag Canyon or is it up ahead? I cannot find it or Timberline on
> the map.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carey
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 9/20/10, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Landslide in Zigzag Canyon North of Timberline
> To: "PCT listserve" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 3:19 PM
>
> *
>
> PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION
> MT. HOOD CHAPTER
> *
> *
> *
> *Landslide in Zigzag Canyon*
>
> The heavy rains of recent days have caused new landslide activity in the
> Zig
> Zag canyon.  The PCT is currently impassable to stock, and dangerous for
> hikers.  The FS hopes to get an emergency crew out to improve the trail
> enough for hikers, but, for stock a more long term solution will need to be
> implemented, likely next summer.  (This slide area is near the same spot
> where a new bridge to repair an older slide had just been installed.)
>
>
> Dana Berthold
> Regional Representative, Columbia Cascades
> Pacific Crest Trail Association
> PO Box 359, Cascade Locks, OR 97014
> dberthold at pcta.org <http://mc/compose?to=dberthold@pcta.org>
> 541 844 9133
>
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