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Planning next summer’s trip and hoping to find some good info on the Clark Creek/Hidden Basin area in the Washakie Wilderness area of the Southern Absaroka’s. I posted a few weeks ago, but unfortunately didn’t get any responses.
I’m starting this trip at the Bonneville Pass trailhead and working my way up onto the Buffalo Plateau over to and down Marston Pass to the south fork of the Shoshone, through Bliss Creek meadows and into the Clark Creek drainage. This is where I’m hoping to get a little info as to whether there’s an actual maintained trail still through here or if it’s basically just a game trail/outfitters trail? I know this area is notorious for showing trails, but then being virtually non existent once there.
From Hidden Basin the plan is to hike up and over Cougar Pass and down to Frontier Creek and camp there for the night and try to get up onto Devils Graveyard which is supposed to be pretty spectacular country up there. We tried once before using a different route heading up the drainage just under Norton Point just across Frontier Creek from Double Cabin, but got cliffed out and then afternoon storms rolled in. So if anyone has been up there I’d love to hear about it.
I’m also pondering walking the ridgeline up there over towards green lake and Emerald lake and dropping down into the Emerald Creek drainage and taking that down to the Wiggins fork and back to Double Cabin. From what I’ve read and heard the Emerald Creek drainage is about as wild as it gets.
Thanks again for any info any of you have.
I’m starting this trip at the Bonneville Pass trailhead and working my way up onto the Buffalo Plateau over to and down Marston Pass to the south fork of the Shoshone, through Bliss Creek meadows and into the Clark Creek drainage. This is where I’m hoping to get a little info as to whether there’s an actual maintained trail still through here or if it’s basically just a game trail/outfitters trail? I know this area is notorious for showing trails, but then being virtually non existent once there.
From Hidden Basin the plan is to hike up and over Cougar Pass and down to Frontier Creek and camp there for the night and try to get up onto Devils Graveyard which is supposed to be pretty spectacular country up there. We tried once before using a different route heading up the drainage just under Norton Point just across Frontier Creek from Double Cabin, but got cliffed out and then afternoon storms rolled in. So if anyone has been up there I’d love to hear about it.
I’m also pondering walking the ridgeline up there over towards green lake and Emerald lake and dropping down into the Emerald Creek drainage and taking that down to the Wiggins fork and back to Double Cabin. From what I’ve read and heard the Emerald Creek drainage is about as wild as it gets.
Thanks again for any info any of you have.