|   | 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
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  GPX for
this trip | 
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| Start Coordinates: | N 38 49.202  W 120
18.881 |  | End Coordinates: | Same as Starting Coordinates |  
| Car Shuttle
Req'd: | No |  | 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. 
 |  | 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. |  | 
|  | Lower falls near the trailhead. 
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|  | Tristan hiking on the trail. |  | 
|  | More of the water coming down
the falls. |  | 
|  | Another shot of Tristan on the
trail. 
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|  | Kayaker falls at our
turnaround spot. |  | 
|  | Dustin taking in the falls. 
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|  | The boys at the falls overlook. |  | 
|  | GPX track of the hike. |  |