The Climbing Club

The weather still looks to be sunny and cool on Sunday, so the hike is on. Destination will be Mallardy Ridge - 7 miles, 1800' gain (round trip). Starts at 3000' and winds up through meadows and marsh to the Cutthroat Lakes basin below Bald Mountain. (http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/recreation/ ... d_0706.htm)

Nothing more than good shoes, water, food, and some warm clothes required for this.

There are 16 people signed up at this point, which is about as many as I'd like to coordinate.

All passengers: contact your driver and work out the details of meeting up on Saturday morning
All drivers:
- Contact me if you have someone in your car that hasn't contacted you
- You will need a NW Forest Pass to park at the trailhead
- The road up to the trailhead is ~8 miles of gravel in reasonably good condition - any passenger car should be fine
- Rather than leaving from a central location, I'd like to plan to rally at the Verlot Ranger station (google maps to Verlot, WA) at 10:00 am. Verlot is 1.5 hours from Seattle, so (if you do the math), plan to depart from Seattle around 8:30.
- From the ranger station, we'll caravan up the road to the trailhead

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Car 1:
Brian P. (driver)
Michelle H.
(Picket)
Carolina

Car 2:
Kris H. (gimp)
Mel G. (driver/boss)

Car 3:
Brian D. (driver)
Laura D.
(2 dogs)
Nathan Snyder

Car 4:
Frank (driver)
Sarah
Jing Newton
Matt O.

Car 5:
Matt D. (driver)
Audrey
Arthur Sikora
Harry Kim
Thoralf

Hey Brian,

I'm down for going on Sunday, either hike is cool with me.

My number is 818-489-6219, so feel free to give me a call later in the week and we can work things out.

matt

Matt - in case other people are interested in coming along, do you have a car, as well?

yeah, and i can seat 4, not including myself.

Hey Brian,

Do you think we could leave a little earlier on Sunday, maybe 8 or even 7:30? I have an event I'm going to in Seattle at 7. I'm sure if we left at 9 I'd be back in plenty of time, but it's cutting a little close. Regardless, I'm totally fine if the group consensus is 9; just throwing the idea out to see what others think.
Matt

Dog & Girlfriend coming.

Hi everyone,
I would love to join you this weekend and I am cool with either of the hikes as well as with leaving either at 9 or 8 am.

My number 206-898-6154. Just give me a call so we can figure things out.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Thoralf

Mel and I are planning on coming along, but we'll be driving together (and won't be taking anyone else) so I can turn around if I need to. Could be the first hike where I slow her down

I think Laura and I will join as well. We'll probably bring four legged companionship for Picket.

We'll drive. Could squeeze another in a pinch, if they like dogs.

Doehle

Sarah and I are coming along, too. If needed, we can drive and take two more people. Preferred departure time would be 9am.

I'd like to come if there is space

-matt

It looks as if I'm a little late on the reply, but if there happens to ever be space or anybody drops out I would love to come along.

-Jing Newton

Lost my internet for 24 hours, and looks like I lost a spot on the hike as well! Similarly, if any more space opens up or anyone else with a car wants to head out anywhere else, I'd love to join you! I'm new in town, take pity!
(I came by on Wednesday night and met a few of you)

New to the hiking club, too, but I'd love to come along if there's room! - Audrey D

If there is enough interest (and drivers), perhaps we could go beyond 12 and have both destinations visited by two separate groups?