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10-26-2020, 04:25 PM #12176
I was bawls deep a couple times today chasing forest horses. Tracks and beds EVERYWHERE. Looks like we were a only an hour or two behind them. Way she goes. Beautiful day out there!
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10-26-2020, 07:45 PM #12177Registered User
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Can anyone give me the lowdown on the lincoln/copper creek area? What roads close in the winter and what is hikable without a sled. So many forest roads I don't want to get stuck on if they are a dead end and some pretty complex terrain. Feel free to pm if not trying to make public. Maybe even a gpx track if im lucky (or show me around)? This guy always tags it.
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10-26-2020, 08:04 PM #12178
Lol yup
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10-26-2020, 08:07 PM #12179
^^Heh. That Instagram clip is our channel 12 weather guy Curtis. Gotta love a weather person who craves snowstorms and doesn't consider sunny warm days in the winter to be "nice" weather. I think the snowmobile map online will give you the lay of the land. Just head up there and start exploring. Also, posting on the Montana Backcountry Alliance group on Facebook might help you find partners.
Last edited by yeahman; 10-27-2020 at 11:05 AM.
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10-26-2020, 08:30 PM #12180
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10-26-2020, 08:35 PM #12181Registered User
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10-26-2020, 08:45 PM #12182
To ski Stonewall in the winter, drive North Beaver Creek Road and park at the junction of where Parlin Park begins. From there, it's a simple skin up Stonewall Creek. The skiing is not on Stonewall Mountain, though, it's on the slopes to the west side of the drainage.
I don't think Copper Creek Road is plowed past Landers Fork, and maybe not even that far.
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10-26-2020, 08:57 PM #12183
Just going by the open dates in the app, I've never been but it doesn't surprise me at all that it becomes impassable since it is just a Forest Service road to nowhere.
Going to bookmark this and hopefully take a trip up that way this winter for a change of pace.
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10-26-2020, 09:11 PM #12184Registered User
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10-26-2020, 09:38 PM #12185
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10-27-2020, 07:01 AM #12186
Not complex at all IMO if you stay on the west side of the drainage. There's sort of an upper and a lower slope, and I don't think either were created by slides. Skiing the lower is a cinch, and the upper just has a short section where you have to scoot around a steeper slope but other than that it's not a big deal. Definitely do not need a sled if you park on Beaver Creek -- and I have never seen one in there anyway.
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10-27-2020, 07:11 AM #12187Registered User
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10-27-2020, 07:27 AM #12188
Not saying those don't ever slide, they well may. But the vegetation community change looks due to moisture and grade differences, not created by slide paths. I haven't spent any time there, but looks like riparian and wetland habitat. Maybe that's not what you are basing your assessment on though.
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10-27-2020, 07:29 AM #12189
Never been there either but the Blue outline certain looks like trim lines from slide activity, Red, not so much.
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10-27-2020, 07:37 AM #12190Registered User
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That yellow/green section looks pretty great. Definitely a bit of a slog to get all the way back there.
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10-27-2020, 07:39 AM #12191
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10-27-2020, 07:51 AM #12192Registered User
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10-27-2020, 07:59 AM #12193
Likely wind loading too, and runouts in stream corridors aren't unusual. I just don't think a lot of weight can be placed on the veg imagery as a predictor without a first hand look in this particular location. I'm sure someone on here has spent enough time there to chime in, it's a popular spot for locals..
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10-27-2020, 08:03 AM #12194Registered User
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10-27-2020, 08:26 AM #12195
OK, thanks for refreshing my memory on that.
By Upper and Lower I was referring to what you have as inside the red and yellow/green circles.
I have never skied what you have cirlced in blue -- the blue zone was what I was referring to when I said you have to scoot around a steeper slope to get to the upper area.
It's been several years since I was there, but the last time I followed what you basically highlighted as a skin track I found a lot of downed timber in the areas roughly between your first and third switchback. Maybe it's changed since then? Or maybe I there when the snow level was low? Anyway, 95% of the skiing that gets done in Stonewall is in that red cirlced area. Ascend in the red circle and ski that, or traverse the blue zone to get to the yellow/green, then return the way you came -- don't ski out the red skin line.
As far as slide potential, I guess it could? Is the yellow 30, the red 35, and the purple 40? Not to say a slide won't happen, but in the pantheon of good places to ski, Stonewall ranks as one of the safer spots.
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10-27-2020, 08:39 AM #12196Registered User
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10-27-2020, 08:41 AM #12197
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10-27-2020, 10:46 AM #12198Registered User
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stonewall is where you want to go
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10-27-2020, 10:54 AM #12199
Pics are gone but that general area can and does slide, occasionally bigly. I have skied back down the skintrack up the finger ridge more than once...
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10-27-2020, 11:03 AM #12200
From random gpx tracks found on the webs.
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