Don't waste your time trying to drive to Lily Lake TH. I talked to the local ranger station yesterday and they confirmed that the LANDSLIDE is huge and completely wiped out the road and side of the mountain. The road leading the trailhead goes through private land so the county is working with the land owner to try and create a work-around. Once a work-around is agreed upon, they will most likely not be able to reopen the road due to damage, EVER! So the work-around would be a hiking trail along the road and around the slide. In the meantime the county road is closed and the private owner has it closed at the beginning of the road (more than 4 miles from th). The ONLY way in to this area as per the ranger, is to follow a faint trail along the north/south ridgeline coming from Mosca Pass (north of lily lake TH) leading south and around the landslide. The landslide is apparently massive and the road will not be cleared soon, if ever. I think the hike from the Mosca Pass adds at least another 5 miles one-way but I haven't looked at it in depth....all said in done, this is most likely the only way anyone is summiting Lindsey in the near future, that is until the land owner allows the county to cut a new trail to hike passed the slide, so no matter what, the hike will be much longer than currently reported.
Now, race to be the first to create a report from Mosca Pass. Good Luck!
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