hey everyone!  This is my 1st post as I just joined this board so go easy on me  I have a question about evans creek for all of guys that know the trails really well.  Is there a trail that takes you to the lake (mauich) (sp?)  someone was telling me there was or used to be a trail that took you to the back side of the lake.  Is it true or was he full of crap?  Thanks for any input!!

No secret trails to Mowich. Just follow the road. It continues on past evans creek and ends up at Mowich Lake in Rainier National Park.

The hike up to the lookout above Eunice Lake starts at Mowich, its worth the sweat. If you don't mind hiking off the marked trails, the peaks around Mowich are fun to wander around.

thanks for the reply.  thats what I figured,  the guy I was talking to insisted that years ago he used to go to the lake all of the time on his dirt bike by way of a trail.  I kinda knew he was full of it,  just had to make sure.  I've been to the lake many times and even fished it a few times but a trail to it sure would be cool.

there's a trail from mowich to eunice lake ... mighta been a dirt bike trail back wehn, but not now.

Got the topo maps out. If there was a route to mowich, it looks like it had to follow park trails. Either most of it was on the road, or it dropped down to the mowich river followed parts of the wonderland trail.

Topo map shows a "boundary" trail running north south, just inside west boundary of the park At the most north east corner of Evans, up next to the park, the boundary trail looks like it ducks out of the park and connects in with evans.

Maybe they followed this south to  the park entrance, connected in with the Paul Peak trail, to the wonderland trail, to Mowich.

I think a 4x4 trail from the campground to the lake would be cool.  Whats the legalities of a 4x4 club or a bunch of independents carving out a trail like that?  Can we get a bunch of people together with chain saws and shovels and go for it or would we all go to jail??

have to have the Fed Gov't approval since it's federal land.
You could go to the Evans creek clean up this weekend and ask the people in charge and do a good deed while your at it.

Jail. They would bring in the whole cast of CSI to investigate.  National Park Service would not take kindly to folks cutting a 4x4 trail thru designated national park wilderness along the wonderland trail, one of the nations premier hiking trails to the shores of lake where they have spent the last 30 - 40 years repairing the overuse from back in the 60s.

bummer.  It would have been cool though.   On kind of the same type subject--- does anyone know of any hard core 4x4 trails that go to a remote wilderness lake in washington?  I've always thought it would be cool to do some hard core wheelin with the kids then pop out of the trail and camp on a remote lake, throw a line in and catch dinner.  Anyone know of such a paradise??

It's not a "hardcore trail", but it sorta fits ....

4W301 will lead you up to "Gallagher Head Lake". The trail to me fits the easy category (and there's even a logging road to bypass much of the start).

When I drove it, it was early june 04, and we got blocked by snow avalanches. I plan on going back sometime later summer or fall.


and here's a full page pdf ...  http://www.avalonforest.com/maps/gallagher.pdf

The cleelum ORV site has info too ... http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee/cle-elum-orv/

Right on!!!   thanks snofalls!!!   now the big question--- is there fish in that lake??


Anyone else have any more that they can think of??

there's bull trout in cooper lake (and legal trout too I think). The cle-elum river has trout too so I'd expect that lake has some ...