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Sink Hollow Winter Outing, 16 March, 2025
For the last snow outing of the season, 10 snowshoers and 4 skiers met at the usual rendezvous of Smith’s Marketplace at 10 am. This was supposed to be a Bear River Summit to Limber Pine outing, but it was blizzardy on top, so we retreated to the lower elevation option of Sink Hollow. We started on the trail at 11:30 am. We trekked through fresh powdery snow with some windy and blowing snow. Snowmobiles had done their whoopty-doo wave paths through the clearcut meadow and into the forest. We skiied on that and the sides of the paths through lovely snow-crusted forest. At 1 pm, we stopped short of Sink Hollow for a stand-up lunch, and then headed back to the vehicles and Logan. We were back at the parking lot at 2:30 pm and down to Smith’s by 3:30 pm. Those who had time and inclination celebrated our final winter outing at El Toro Viejo with delicious Mexican “lupper” with Katie and Jerry joining us.
Trip Summary
- 14 trekkers: Susan, Brent L., Dan, Dave W., Jane, Dave P., Austin, Brent J., Hiro, Linda, Bree, Darcie, Francis, and Teresa (leader)
- Drove 34
miles to the Bear Lake Overlook, then 7 miles back
down to the Sink Hollow Winter Trailhead parking area
- Started on the trail at 11:30 am and returned to the parking lot about 2:30 pm, with lunch about 1:00 pm
- 3.1 miles round trip with 300 ft elevation change
- Temperatures about 30 degrees with high gray skies and variable blowing snow
Thanks
to Teresa for the narrative and photos, Jane for
photos, and Dan and Dave W for photos and GPS data.
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| Starting out near the Sink Hollow WInter Trailhead | |||
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| The National Forest boundary, where the Sink Hollow Road changes to an ATV trail and Sitla's clearcutting ends | |||
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| A "stand up" lunch, out of the wind and in the sun | |||
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Our GPS track shows about 3.1 miles
and 300 feet of ascent.
You can look at our route using Google
Earth or download our GPS file.
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