>If you'd like to provide directions to little Cavanaugh, I'd like to
>hear them. I hunted off and on for about 10 years for that lake. I
>can find it on the map.. but driving my truck... I can't find it on
>the road....trail.. or whatever.
Little Cavanaugh is roughly 6 or 7 miles south of Gold Bar. Take Hwy
2 a couple miles past Gold Bar and look for Forest Road 62 on the
right past the big 'S' curves (it's well marked.) Follow FR 62 about
7 miles. The unpaved road is steep in parts with some switchbacks.
Stay to the right at the first fork.
When you get to the top, you'll be in a pretty extensive clearcut.
You'll cross a creek then stay left as a gated road takes off to the
right. After another mile or so, you'll enter a stand of uncut
second-growth. As you leave the trees and enter another clearcut, the
road down to the lake is on the right but isn't marked.
If you pass the lake road, you can't go much farther before you'll
run into the closed yellow gate that marks the north end of
Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie Tree Farm.
You might want to get a copy of the Gold Bar 7-1/2 minute topo map
for reference. Both Metzger's Maps and (I think) REI have it.
>Which King Lake.. not the one behind the gates up on High Rock road?
Yep, that's the one.
Take the King Lake Road north off Lake Fontal (High Rock) Road.
Follow the main road and past the hand-painted "No Trespassing -
Private Property sign (it's not) after a couple miles. You'll come to
a yellow steel gate that's open. After a quarter mile or so, take
the left-hand fork as you enter a clearcut. The lake's couple hundred
yards or so down a rutted road.
Let us know how you do.
Kent Lufkin
