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July 10, 2022
Lower Chinns Reservoir
So today, I decided I'd ride the Africa Twin up to Lower Chinns Reservoir. This is one of the lakes Jen and I used to camp at. I had a sort of vague recollection that it was a rough road, but it seems like it's worse every time I do it. I did manage to make it up there though. The cabin is about 1/2 collapsed now. So I got some pics and then decided to try to make it up to Loch Lomond. So, I came back down the harrowing dirt road and headed up to try to make it to Loch Lomond. But there's still a locked gate. Someone that I ran into said it was supposed to open on the 15th, so I'll have to try to go back.
At some point while I was riding amongst the lakes, Mark contacted me about a person in trouble on Webster Pass. My thought was that, if someone is in trouble on Webster Pass, they're on the south side of the pass. The reason being that the north side of the pass is a cake walk. It switchbacks 2-3 times just above Montezuma, and you're at the summit. But the pass isn't open, and there's probably 20' of snow at the summit. But if you come up from the south side of Webster Pass, you could easily fall 100' to your death. The south side of the pass is a harrowing narrow Jeep trail up the side of the mountain on a stone path about10' wide. No place to turn around. Extremely dangerous. So, if someone was in trouble, they came up from the south side, I offered.
To get from Bailey to the south side of Webster Pass, you go 14 miles south on US Highway 285 and take Park County Road 60 (at the bottom of the east side of Kenosah Pass).
On County Road 60, go 5.1 miles. The the road will do a switchback to the right. Just past the switchback is where you turn left onto Webster Pass (Forest Service Road 121) and take this road to the summit of Webster Pass. However, I suspect that there is 20' of snow at the summit and the pass is not open from the south side..
Posted by Rob Kiser on July 10, 2022 at 9:44 PM
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