Weather Report: snowing at Barlow Pass. Reports of snow on ground at Monte Cristo

A few of us took chainsaws up the Monte Cristo road and cleared ~10 windfalls from the road.

Clayslide is quite passable but there is a large slide mid-way that has almost taken out the trail.

Log crossing is nearly submerged, but the water channel diverts back to the main channel just downstream and leaves a very shallow crossing to the gravel bar just prior to the outhouse. From there it only takes a few steps to get back to the downstream end of the upper bride and back onto the roadway. A lot of water flow under the second bridge, although it is abruptly diverted due to a log jam just downstream. No signs of any further bridge abutment erosion.

Some photos of the logs cleared shown below.