Inez Creek Trail

Date: May 19th, 2019
Participants: Mary Dalton, David and Julie Kahl
Of everybody that hoped to come on this trip, Mary Dalton was the only one that made it. We were glad to have her along, as on a spring trip, long ago, up above Fort Fizzle, she spotted a sow bear with cubs, way across the drainage, making it one of our most remembered hikes. We can only hope Mary’s bear luck would hold. We left her car at the bottom of the Inez Cr. Trail, about seven miles/ 11.27k up Miller Cr. This is one of the new trails being developed between Pattee Canyon and Miller Cr. Then we took our Tacoma through Pattee Canyon, and up to the top of the West Fork Of Deer Cr., where the power lines cross over the Deer Cr. Miller Cr. divide. Bear Run Cr. is below on the Miller Cr. side. According to my GPS, the main road that runs along the ridge top here is Skyline Drive, West, and it is a continuation of roads that once came up from the now gated Little Park Cr. Rd., the s…
Of everybody that hoped to come on this trip, Mary Dalton was the only one that made it. We were glad to have her along, as on a spring trip, long ago, up above Fort Fizzle, she spotted a sow bear with cubs, way across the drainage, making it one of our most remembered hikes. We can only hope Mary’s bear luck would hold. We left her car at the bottom of the Inez Cr. Trail, about seven miles/ 11.27k up Miller Cr. This is one of the new trails being developed between Pattee Canyon and Miller Cr. Then we took our Tacoma through Pattee Canyon, and up to the top of the West Fork Of Deer Cr., where the power lines cross over the Deer Cr. Miller Cr. divide. Bear Run Cr. is below on the Miller Cr. side. According to my GPS, the main road that runs along the ridge top here is Skyline Drive, West, and it is a continuation of roads that once came up from the now gated Little Park Cr. Rd., the s…