Made it to Ash Camp today (almost)

[StevenB]

Barrier is still there as I had heard. No other indications of road closures.

2-3 FT of snow on the ground up at 4,000 ft. Almost none at river level.

Short day on the water, about 3 hours this afternoon, did not walk all the way to Ash Camp, stopped at MC7.

Weather was nice, water was gorgeous, fishing was slow.

I had two grabs and landed one small fish (9 inches or so) on a S&M.
My fishing buddy had three grabs and landed two, one about 12" and the other a nice 14" ish.

Nice but light size18 BWO (?) hatch coming off for a couple of hours, did not see any fish rising.

Lots of rocks on the road around the lake as usual in the spring. nothing real big and nothing you could not drive around.
But drive slowish so you have time to see them around the tight turns.

Speaking of Rocks, there were two pretty big rocks on the road to Ash Camp after the barrier, no big deal since you can not drive there anyway what with the barrier in the way,
I did not walk down to the rocks to check them out (maybe next time I go over there)
but it looked a little sketchy for driving past them.

Just thinking if you can from the Pit side and then tried to drive the MC7 access I am not sure you could.

But it is a short walk, and besides you should go up the river not the road.
Just stay on the road side, I once tried to go up river on the trail side from the PCT bridge (west side). Swore I would never do that again. Cliffs and more cliffs that are next to water too deep to wade around, traversing a rock face with your rod in your teeth cause you need both hands to hold on to the rock, is not real fun.

Ya, I know there are much better ways to carry your rod hands free than biting on it,
that is what that loop of material at the bottom of your vest is for. But its my story and I'm gonna tell it like I want

Anybody thinking about heading up this week-end?

Give me a call if you have any questions.

edit:
Added a couple of photos, Ya, I know that bug photo is poor but it is the best one I got.
Not very color accurate either, bug looks mostly brown in the photo but it had a lot of olive.
Then again your average store bought BWO pattern is gonna be too Olive, lotta brown/tan in there.
I said a BWO but I got my doubts, anybody got other ideas?

Looks like they gunited the hill to hold it up.