Wooley Creek
Near Wooley Camp to Salmon River
February 27, 2019
Dreaming of a downhill trail
| Reporter | Dana Hays |
The 'easier trail' mentioned above should probably be deleted. A few years back a group from OR was dropped off at the end of the road, with the driver taking off before really checking things out. So there was no way out but down and no real trail at that point. Turned into an ugly fiasco. The trail is still a future possibility. I talked to various people about it. Someone from local firefighting unit thought it sounded like a viable trail for firefighting efforts and Steindorf agreed it sounded interesting for river access. BUT (and a big one) is that it would need concerted effort from various agencies to ever make it happen. After a fire that road access fell apart, so Forest Service would need to clear the road and approve the work. No chain saws in wilderness so people with big pull saws, etc. Would be awesome though!!