They do close the East Slope Trail

Yesterday, I walked the East Slope Trail. This trail is considered to be the steepest at Chambers Creek Properties. The Soundview Trail, which is also steep (but not considered as steep) was closed due to the weather.

Part of the reason for the East Slope Trail being open is that it isn’t as simple to close. Closing the Soundview Trail is simply a matter of not opening the gates in the morning. There are no gates on the East Slope Trail.

What they ended up doing was putting two strands of that yellow Caution tape stuff between two signs. Then, they attached a warning sign to the tape. They probably closed it for the worse of these two days. The snow had partially melted and refrozen since yesterday’s walk. There might not have been as much on the trails, but they were definitely slicker today.


As interesting as it might seem, they posted another sign for the closure where they point out the East Slope Trail. Apparently, they didn’t have any saying “East Slope Trail,” so they posted sign said that the Soundview Trail was closed (which it was, but that wasn’t the point of that sign).