Nome Creek
Moderator: john
Nome Creek
Went in to Nome Creek on Saturday 4/15, the road has been plowed from the Steese all the way to Nome Creek. Looks like they are getting ready to do some road constuction in there. Weather and snow were great!
- cleary
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Last I heard DOT is going to rebuild the US Creek Road from mile 57 Steese into Nome Creek. It needs it! Glad to hear that it's plowed. Have to drive up there. We rode from Cleary Summit to Chatanika and back last night. We have found an alternate route from Cleary Summit to the Circle Trail trailhead that bypasses the Fairbanks Creek Road that gets plowed every spring. We have snowshoed, skiied and now sledded it in the last couple of days. Will have to do some work on it this summer. Will put it on a map and post it later.
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- john
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Thanks for the info Chuck. The road is plowed to the bridge, 7 miles. We had a great run from there back to Mt Pinnell campground and took the trail just before the campground. It was an excellent trip and we were all worn out by time we got back to the rigs.
Up the trail to ridge on top and along the ridge line to where you tunr off to drop down to quartz creek (I think its quartz creek), when we headed down off the ridges we ran into to the trees and then the work started. It was 4 feet of sugary powder and got tough to make it all the way down, in fact we didn't. Everyone got stuck with the exception of Darrell on his SkiDoo. Man talk about work, it was almost as bad as our trip last month in the Dunkels. We had to side hill and the drifts would just force our sleds down the hill side into the 4 feet of sugar.
Must of taken us 2 hours to get back out and up the hill a couple a miles...
I'll post some photos a little later. I can tell this, it was the biggest work I've had all season trying to climb that powder up hile and through the trees.
Up the trail to ridge on top and along the ridge line to where you tunr off to drop down to quartz creek (I think its quartz creek), when we headed down off the ridges we ran into to the trees and then the work started. It was 4 feet of sugary powder and got tough to make it all the way down, in fact we didn't. Everyone got stuck with the exception of Darrell on his SkiDoo. Man talk about work, it was almost as bad as our trip last month in the Dunkels. We had to side hill and the drifts would just force our sleds down the hill side into the 4 feet of sugar.
Must of taken us 2 hours to get back out and up the hill a couple a miles...
I'll post some photos a little later. I can tell this, it was the biggest work I've had all season trying to climb that powder up hile and through the trees.