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rfbolton

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Thanks Grant. I'll post the new information. I wonder if people still use Keep Kool Trail or not. Plenty of Cascades trails get badly overgrown, but people still use them. I suspect that they're trying to keep people away from Yellow Aster Meadows - it won't work! :-)

Posted Jul 22, 2002 9:43 pm

rfbolton

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That's great news!! Thanks for posting this information.

Bob

Posted Aug 20, 2002 12:17 am

rfbolton

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Thanks Jim. I'll update the section. I haven't been there since '96, so this helps!

Posted Sep 22, 2003 8:59 pm

Grant Stewart	Untitled Comment
Hasn't voted	Trail 699 is way overgrown after about 300 meters. The new approach to Tomyhoi is Trail 686 to junction at Gold Run Pass. Trail 686 goes on north to Tomyhoi Lake. Once at Gold Run Pass, climbing trail goes west up to Yellow Aster Medow and the ridge to summit.
	Posted Jul 22, 2002 11:48 am

rfbolton

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Posted Jul 22, 2002 9:43 pm

jrs

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I took the Keep Kool Trail to Yellow Aster Meadows on 17 Aug 02 and can report that it is becoming quite overgrown. At Yellow Aster Meadows I spoke with several people who had taken the new trail and they had nothing but good things to say about its condition. Seeing as how they all made it to Yellow Aster Meadows I suspect that the new trail goes there :)

Posted Aug 17, 2002 5:10 pm

rfbolton

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That's great news!! Thanks for posting this information.

Bob

Posted Aug 20, 2002 12:17 am

jtschanz

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Hi - just wanted to give you some updated information about getting to Tomyhoi. You may want to update the "Getting There" section ... Once on road No. 3065, stay to the left for approx 4 miles. Right before an "end of maintained road" sign is the "Yellow Aster Butte" trailhead. As other people have mentioned, this new trail (very popular!) comes to a junction where you can either go straight (to Tomyhoi Lake) or left (to the tarns beneath Yellow Aster Butte). The trail ends just above the tarns and from there you can either scramble up Yellow Aster Butte or continue on to Tomyhoi. I did not see any signs for the "Keep Kool Trail" along the road.

-Jim

Posted Sep 22, 2003 1:37 pm

rfbolton

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Thanks Jim. I'll update the section. I haven't been there since '96, so this helps!

Posted Sep 22, 2003 8:59 pm

iluka

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If you're looking for solitude, you'd better camp here midweek as the area gets a lot of traffic on weekends.

Posted May 13, 2005 10:41 pm

marionthegoat	Keep Kool Trail
Hasn't voted	I haven't been much of a fan of the newer cutoff from the Gold Run Pass trail. It may be a flatter approach but it seems to waste distance doing it, I didn't find it to save any time or effort. I also was disappointed by the manner in which YA Butte has been marred by the trail, and the way it plops one directly into the upper tarn area. The USFS claimed that the old Keep Kool trail was difficult to maintain ( and I suppose it was, though I saw little evidence that they tried ). I will admit that Keep Kool is pretty steep and rugged in places. Still, I find the old trail a more aesthetic progression( even in spite of the recent clear-cut), moving from falls, to the lower meadows, to the lower and upper tarns. In winter or spring, the Keep Kool approach is still the logical choice. Hopefully there's some other die-hards out there who will continue to put their boots to this historic trail and keep it from disappearing completely. For those who wish to find it, the trailhead is at the end of a short spur road that branches sharply left about 3 miles up from the highway.
	Posted Feb 27, 2006 6:33 pm

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