The western end of the Mary Hollow Trail is a mess. It starts out well enough. And gets rapidly worse. The trail is washed out and buried in debris and fallen trees. I had to resort to hiking down the creek bed and bushwhacking. It took me two hours to get the two miles from the McGarr Spring Trail Junction to the junction with the Collins Ridge Trail.
For most of those two hours I was hiking in the rain., which I expected as “some showers” were in the forecast I’d checked before I left on Saturday. It ended up being a good test of my rain gear.
An easy part of the trail. Large portions of the trail were impassable. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Storm damage. This 6′-10′ high pile of debris gives an idea of the damage. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Looking back along a clear part of the trail. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Sun after rain. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Debris & Sun. The hollow is completely full of washed-out limbs and trees from the flooding in May 2017. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Just to prove I made it to the North Fork River – though it took two-three hours of bushwhacking to get here. Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Copyright © 2020 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.