Two weekends ago Matt Mixer and I went to Lake Creek. The drive over was uneventful. It was raining and cold (what’s new?). When we reached Mapleton, though, it started snowing. Matt called his wife to see if she had heard anything about snow storms on the news. She hadn’t, so we proceeded to have a fabulous time playing at Grassy Lawn.
It was snowing the whole time we were on the river, but it didn’t seem to be sticking, as far as we could tell. When we got off the river a guy pulled over and told us that the tunnel on Highway 126 was closed. He suggested that we take Stagecoach road (a one-lane gravel road that would allow us to bypass the tunnel back to the 126). Neither of us had taken Stagecoach before, but we gave it a shot. Matt’s two wheel drive Acura isn’t the best snow vehicle in the world, but we made it through to the 126. I have never seen the coast range so white before.
To make a long story short, we sat through a few delays, slipped around in Matt’s car, but eventually made it over the second pass and back into Eugene. That was a close one — I thought we were going to end up spending the night in Matt’s car!
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