Trip Report
Day Hike - Neiderprum Trail
Excellent to normal unmaintained cascades trail first half, climbers trail with downfall second half.
Lyle Harvey
- Mon, Sep 9, 2024
- Day Hike - Neiderprum Trail
- Neiderprum Trail
- Day Hiking
- Successful
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- Road suitable for all vehicles
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A walk on an abandoned road for about a mile and a half. Mountain bike would be nice for the road walk to the trailhead. Excellent smooth unmaintained trail for the first part, slowly changing to what you would expect of a cascade's mountain trail. Up to the 2000' elevation are the gravestones from logging of immense old growth with the springboard cuts from the other century. Above this elevation untouched forest with some beautiful large trees. At approximately 2400', is an avalanche chute choked with large debris, one particular log must be either climbed over or under, either pushing or pulling your pack through. From this point on you'll be following more of a climber's path with occasional bits of decent trail. Several recent downed trees with obvious paths through them. Expect to be going mostly via the fall line from here up to about 3500' where the grade mellows for the final bit. Overall, an easy-to-follow obvious route.
Good parking for a half dozen or so vehicles. Boulder River Wilderness entered at about 1800'. At this time of year, the blueberries at the 3500' zone were perfect for feasting, I was obviously not the only one enjoying these, as the scent of bear scat was very prevalent in the area.
The trail was littered with flagging material on the ground, I picked up a full bag of this material, some so old it was disintegrating in my hand. We Mountaineers as stewards of the planet need to create a different product to flag routes with, instead of 'Plastic' Surveyors Tape.
This route was easy to follow and requires no flagging. In this day of mapping apps, Gaia, Caltopo, Onx...., map and compass. Perhaps we should make an effort to get away from flagging routes?