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Silver
Creek Falls Hike
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Trip Date: 02/11/2010
Distance: 1.5 Miles
Vertical Gain:
500'
Group Size:
3
Hike Rating:
Easy
Moderate Hard
Strenuous |
GPX for
this trip
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Start Coordinates: |
N 38 49.202 W 120
18.881 |
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End Coordinates: |
Same as Starting Coordinates |
Car Shuttle
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No |
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Parking
Directions: |
Take
the Ice House Road from Highway 50 and follow it for a few miles until
you reach the turn for Ice House Reservoir/Wrights Lake Road.
Turn right, and follow it around the north side of the lake
until you reach the parking at the end of the road.
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Hazards of
Note: |
Steep dropoffs at a few of the
falls along the way.
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Crowd Factor: |
Moderate. Ice House
reservoir is very busy during the summer, but past the lake is far less
travelled. |
General Notes:
At
the end of Ice House Reservoir, you can take either a high trail or a
low trail along the river which parallel each other and end up at the
same place after less than a mile. Some weekends during the
summer there are actually kayakers braving these rapids and falls, but
I have not seem them there in person.
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A look at Tell's Peak a little
south of Loon Lake. |
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Lower falls near the trailhead.
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Tristan hiking on the trail. |
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More of the water coming down
the falls. |
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Another shot of Tristan on the
trail.
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Kayaker falls at our
turnaround spot. |
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Dustin taking in the falls.
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The boys at the falls overlook. |
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GPX track of the hike. |
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