tiamalle
01-25-2007, 20:53
Friends Deep Gap is usually open all year.I got a shuttle call this morning
to pick-up a couple of hikers and the lower gate was closed 1/2 mile in from US 64 on FS 71.I had just shuttled hikers into Deep Gap 1 week ago.I was lucky and there was cell phone reception at Deep Gap and I got them to hike down Kimsey Creek blue blaze trail to Standing Indian Camp Ground.
There is a pay phone there and cell phones don't get a signal in the park.There is also a gate locking the campground but you can walk east about 500 ft on the paved rd to gain access to FS 67.To the left 1 & 1/2 miles to old 64 at Wallace Gap.
I saw a Rangers Steve Waldroop and Brian Southards at the campgrounds and ask what had happened that close FS 71 to Deep Gap?They replied that the road would be closed until March 1st and they had got orders to close it but didn't give a reason why.
If something changes I will post it.
to pick-up a couple of hikers and the lower gate was closed 1/2 mile in from US 64 on FS 71.I had just shuttled hikers into Deep Gap 1 week ago.I was lucky and there was cell phone reception at Deep Gap and I got them to hike down Kimsey Creek blue blaze trail to Standing Indian Camp Ground.
There is a pay phone there and cell phones don't get a signal in the park.There is also a gate locking the campground but you can walk east about 500 ft on the paved rd to gain access to FS 67.To the left 1 & 1/2 miles to old 64 at Wallace Gap.
I saw a Rangers Steve Waldroop and Brian Southards at the campgrounds and ask what had happened that close FS 71 to Deep Gap?They replied that the road would be closed until March 1st and they had got orders to close it but didn't give a reason why.
If something changes I will post it.