Wagon Wheel Timber Sale
On Friday Jan 2nd, DNR represented by Jon byerly, Phil Wolff and Joe ??, The Quadrapaws represented by Jeff Williams, Tim Willett, & Sean Butler, met at the staging area, walked the beginning of the trail, marking out a possible new trail route, identifying problem areas, areas to be left forrested. Below is a GPS map of the path we took, following that is the GPS DATA and a text listing the Waypoint ID's. Following that are pictures Tim took at a few waypoints and more notes.
Staging Area
Map & GPS Data from Walkabout
TOPO! GPS Data Format DegMin NAD83 ElevFeet UTC-Time
115,47,28.286,-122,54.868,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:15
116,47,28.302,-122,54.890,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:16
117,47,28.297,-122,54.913,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:21
118,47,28.313,-122,54.929,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:23
119,47,28.327,-122,54.947,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:24
120,47,28.338,-122,54.974,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:25
121,47,28.338,-122,54.990,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:36,02-JAN-04 17:25
122,47,28.349,-122,54.968,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:29
123,47,28.341,-122,54.964,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:31
124,47,28.347,-122,54.965,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:32
125,47,28.362,-122,54.945,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:33
126,47,28.379,-122,54.926,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:34
127,47,28.399,-122,54.934,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:34
128,47,28.412,-122,54.934,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:35
129,47,28.437,-122,54.912,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:36
130,47,28.455,-122,54.899,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:37,02-JAN-04 17:37
131,47,28.441,-122,54.886,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:38
132,47,28.466,-122,54.884,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:41
133,47,28.441,-122,54.988,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:44
134,47,28.454,-122,55.060,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:46
135,47,28.454,-122,55.072,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:47
136,47,28.434,-122,55.122,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:48
137,47,28.406,-122,55.028,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:53
138,47,28.345,-122,55.066,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 17:56
139,47,28.369,-122,55.111,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 18:00
140,47,28.403,-122,55.172,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:38,02-JAN-04 18:02
141,47,28.254,-122,55.220,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:11
142,47,28.229,-122,55.188,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:13
143,47,28.199,-122,55.188,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:14
144,47,28.162,-122,55.152,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:16
145,47,28.156,-122,55.157,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:17
146,47,28.145,-122,55.158,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:18
147,47,28.092,-122,55.123,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:19
148,47,28.065,-122,55.104,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:23
149,47,28.065,-122,55.106,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:23
150,47,28.064,-122,55.155,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:24
151,47,28.043,-122,55.208,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:39,02-JAN-04 18:27
152,47,27.987,-122,55.252,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:29
153,47,27.967,-122,55.300,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:30
154,47,28.069,-122,55.086,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:47
155,47,28.094,-122,55.053,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:48
156,47,28.127,-122,55.033,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:49
157,47,28.133,-122,55.005,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:52
158,47,28.168,-122,54.983,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 18:59
159,47,28.179,-122,54.952,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 19:01
160,47,28.211,-122,54.953,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 19:02
161,47,28.272,-122,54.964,NA,01/08/2004,00:04:40,02-JAN-04 19:05
115 start
116 boarder of entry tree area
117 ridge top
118 bees nest
120 area #2
121 down old hill
122 new right turn "beer can"
125 left turn
131 down off ridge
132 on lower road
135 off lower road
136 bottom yellow jacket
137 top of yellow jacket (to west side)
138 area #3 single rock pile
140 top of 2nd hill climb
141 tahuya lookout & 84n junction
142-147 84n
148 84n 84s junction
149-150 84s
151 wetland management area
152 84s
153 84s & tahuya lookout road
154 84n south end
155 up 84n east side
156 84n down hill into valley
157 bottom of valley
158 base of hill climb
159 top of hill climb
160 along last ridge
161 exit point top of ridge
Trailhead for Tahuya Loop. Planning to leave a 1 - 2 acre half-moon shape area aorund trailhead as is to allow for a natural appearance from Elfendahl Pass road. The edge of 1/2 moon would be about WP 115. Trail would go to top of ridge and turn right at approximately WP 122.
WP 131. This is where we proposed to turn left down to lower valley outside of boundary for new (Wagonwheel??)cut. We propose to leave the valley entirely, enabling the loss of this unmanageable area. We gain some trail by going along the edge of the timber sale and staying out of the valley.
WP 136. Yellowjacket hill may be lost, but is a worthy sacrifice. There will be other hills to climb and more challenges ahead. We will also be losing the sibgle rock pile area at WP 138. It, too, should be easily moved and re-placed somewher else either as a rockpile or a different obstacle.
WP 141. This is where trail 84N goes left off of Tahuya Lookout Road. I don’t know the significance of this area. Ask Jeff.
WP 148. This is the intersection of the 84N and 84S trails.
WP 157. This is where trail 84N goes up out of the valley, picture taken in the SSW direction. DNR proposed to leave a donut shaped area around this and the next picture areas to allow for a "green belt" type thing. This is to help discourage people from going into the clear-cut valley and making many trails up the open hillsides. We all hope it works.
WP 157. This is where trail 84N comes down into the valley, picture taken in the NE direction.