North Twin Trail Access?

[Neil]

I was wondering where I could park to access the North Twin trail. I was thinking of maybe repeating a trip of Wu's on 04-13.
I was also wondering about crossing the Little River from West to East in order to do Hale. My map shows the trail crossing the river. Is it bridged?

 

[Jazzbo]

Re-read Dr Wu's report you see the way to find Fire Warden Trail is to NOT cross Little River at 1st river crossing. Stay on East bank and you shortly come to Fire Warden Trail. Look up Bob & Jeri's Twins Hike from last January. Haystack Rd is not open yet so best option is to drive up Little river Road and park at 7 Dwarfs Motel. This time of year they're not open. B&J's report says to contact them to get permission to park and arrange to pay small parking fee. Their place is near end of the dirt road. Prabably beats getting your car broken into parking on Haystack. Don't leave valuables in car. Wu'r report sounds really great, but water could be problem this time of the year. Good luck ... take lots of pic's.

 

[dr_wu002]

Re-read Dr Wu's report you see the way to find Fire Warden Trail is to NOT cross Little River at 1st river crossing. Stay on East bank and you shortly come to Fire Warden Trail. Look up Bob & Jeri's Twins Hike from last January. Haystack Rd is not open yet so best option is to drive up Little river Road and park at 7 Dwarfs Motel. This time of year they're not open. B&J's report says to contact them to get permission to park and arrange to pay small parking fee. Their place is near end of the dirt road. Prabably beats getting your car broken into parking on Haystack. Don't leave valuables in car. Wu'r report sounds really great, but water could be problem this time of the year. Good luck ... take lots of pic's.

If you do the loop the way I did it you have to cross Little River at the end of the hike not at the beginning. So what if it's high water -- walk through it... you only have a few easy miles to go from there... You can go up North Twin first (then you have to cross Little River in the beginning) but my money is on doing Hale first -- the trail is gorgeous, do it when you're fresh not at the end when you're tired and just trying to get back to the car.

-Dr. Wu