Comments on: Forest Service Closures in North Carolina Due to Severe Winter Weather https://internetbrothers.org/2016/01/22/forest-service-closures-in-north-carolina-due-to-severe-winter-weather/ A Hiking Blog Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff Clark, Meanderthals https://internetbrothers.org/2016/01/22/forest-service-closures-in-north-carolina-due-to-severe-winter-weather/#comment-5615 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:53:00 +0000 http://internetbrothers.org/?p=18267#comment-5615 In reply to John Yokley.

John, I don’t have any new information, but it has been quite wet in the Pisgah Ranger District this winter. I suspect the forest road conditions are still quite soft. There has been significant problem with erosion of forest service roads in recent years, so I imagine the NFS is taking a better safe than sorry position. With budgets being bare-boned as they have in recent years, there simply isn’t money to repair roads that have become impassable because of overuse. Your best bet is to remain patient and take the opportunity to explore some of the other areas in the forest.

]]> By: John Yokley https://internetbrothers.org/2016/01/22/forest-service-closures-in-north-carolina-due-to-severe-winter-weather/#comment-5614 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:39:00 +0000 http://internetbrothers.org/?p=18267#comment-5614 Yellow Gap (FS1206) & Wash Creek Road continue to be closed from this storm closure (yes, 1.5 months later). Do you have any idea why? The forest service doesn’t even have it listed on their website, so of course, with no reason, there’s no idea when it will re-open. Do you have any information?

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