Ascent of Big Skidder Hill on 2010-04-04| Others in Party: | Ken Jones
| | Date: | Sunday, April 4, 2010 | | Ascent Type: | Successful Summit Attained | | Motorized Transport to Trailhead: | Car | | Peak: | Big Skidder Hill | | Location: | USA-Washington | | Elevation: | 2126 ft / 648 m |
Ascent Trip ReportFrom 101 turn W on West Uncas Road. Take a quick left onto Wycoff Road. Go straight until you come into the open with a signed farm property straight ahead. Instead, turn R and go up a switchback. Just past where the road switchbacks N find a timber company gate. Present signage indicates no motor vehicles which we took to mean walking was OK. No signs, gates or residential property beyond here. Follow the main road for a couple miles as it traverses without gaining any real elevation. When you are pretty much due N of the peak you'll take the uphill fork here going S and proceed on the mapped road most of the way. Stick with the mapped main road. After passing between the 1960+ and 1920+ bumps the main road hooks E towards an tower as you are in the middle of a clearcut. The lesser but desired mapped road heads sort of S where it looks like it will dead end upon reaching a stand of older timber. But in fact it is just bermed here for a bit and if you walk the bermed road for several hundred feet it will pick back up to be a good road. That was the only sort of tricky spot as we missed where the mapped road and the main road diverged. We, unlike Robert Frost, took the road more travelled and that made all of the off-trail difference. Anyway, follow the mapped road to the top and unlike on the map the road does indeed make one final switchback to the W and goes right up to the tippy top. Generic lame forested logging land. Very suitable for bikes overall. Another peakbagger's logging bump; not otherwise recommended.
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| Summary Total Data | | Elevation Gain: | 1986 ft / 605 m | | Elevation Loss: | 1986 ft / 605 m | | Distance: | 9.8 mi / 15.8 km | | Grade/Class: | Class 1 | | Quality: | 2 (on a subjective 1-10 scale) | | Route Conditions: | Road Hike, Open Country, Snow on Ground | | Gear Used: | Ski Poles | | Weather: | Pleasant, Breezy, Partly Cloudy | | Ascent Statistics | | Elevation Gain: | 1936 ft / 590 m | | Extra Loss: | 50 ft / 15 m | | Distance: | 4.8 mi / 7.7 km | | Route: | More Logging Roads | | Trailhead: | Logging Gate 240 ft / 73 m | | Descent Statistics | | Elevation Loss: | 1936 ft / 590 m | | Extra Gain: | 50 ft / 15 m | | Distance: | 5 mi / 8.1 km | | Route: | More Logging Roads | | Trailhead: | Logging Gate 240 ft / 73 m |
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