A couple days ago, I rode much of the Dungeness/Gold loop.  The spur road going down to the trailhead has a “Road Closed” sign, but there wasn’t any gate or any concrete blocks or whatnot, so I decided to just drive it.  About 100 yards before you get to the original (slide-impacted) trailhead, there’s a very small turnaround area, big enough for maybe 4-5 cars to park.

I rode (er, rode half, hiked half) up Gold Creek, stopping to clear the 15 or 20 smaller logs with my hand saw.  There are still three logs on Gold Creek that were too big to move.

Part of the reason I went up Gold Creek was just to mix it up and try something different.  But also because of the washout I’d read about on Dungeness, just a mile from the upper trailhead; so just in case it was really bad, I wanted to have the option to turn around and get back to some trailhead.  And I’m glad I did that, cause sure enough the washout was yyuuuge.  Pretty sure it had gotten worse since other fairly recent TRs had been written.  It was looking like a 100+ vertical foot PITA scramble up a steep slope, then over, then back down. Decided it wasn’t worth the effort, and so turned around, rode back to the upper trailhead, then took the road to the 3 O’Clock Ridge trail, then rode down that and then the lower part of Lower Dungeness.  3OR and lower LDR had about 15 logs, many of which I could have cleared, but was running out of time, so left them for someone else to get.

Other minor trail/maintenance issues: parts of GC have thick salal and other brush.  And parts of both trails, especially near their lower sections, have some pretty rutted/eroded areas.