This trail has been a work in progress for over thirty years. It certainly doesn't go all the way to the Carbon River/Mowich area, maybe someday. It has been open from Orting to South Prairie for many years, but only recently has the trail been open from South Prairie to Buckley.
We had heard from a friend that the South Prairie bridge was open, so that is where we went. The sun was out, but it was quite cold, lots of ice on the shady parts of the newly paved trail. After waiting so many years for this part of the trail to open up, it really felt like a victory march. We walked past the rather large trailer park, then past farms and trees until the trail got very close to the road, Pioneer Way, and then we turned around.
There wasn’t any good place to stop for lunch, no logs or benches, we finally settled on a trailside rock in the sun, then returned the way we came, almost five miles round trip, not bad for a winter walk.
More pictures at the link below:
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Searching for DL on Foothills Trail
Fantastic news. I was up there surveying the trail in about 1995. Glad to see they got the right of way issues resolved and money for the bridges.
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Searching for DL on Dec 16, 2017 08:41 AM