Harrison East May 02/21

 Parked the truck along Lillooet road in Harrison Hot Springs and off loaded the TW there. After a few minutes of gear wrangling, we were off. Four miles later, we touched onto the Harrison East FSR and headed north.
On any sunny day, the Harrison East FSR is crowded with vehicles of all sorts...bikes, cars, trucks, ATV's SxS...you name it, it's rolling and the dust is flying.

The first point-of-interest along Harrison East is Rainbow Falls, where we stopped for a quick pic and to watch this young lady piloting her drone to get a better view of the falls.

As we continue, it is obvious that the road has been graded recently, which makes travelling easy. Before long, we reach this viewpoint, just past Bear Creek park. 

The next point-of-interest is Cogburn Beach, another park/campground , but because of the dust created by other vehicles, we didn't stop, so no pictures were taken.

After Cogburn Beach, the road-grading ended, but the road was still passable, albeit loose and/or potholed in some parts.

Several miles later, we reach the bridge across Big Silver Creek.

...and the view into the canyon below.

We pushed on, although the quality of the road surface deteriorated , the further we went. A few miles later, we discovered this project:
The Big Silver Creek powerplant...a run-of-river hydro-electric plant. It would be interesting to see this during the height of the freshet...

Wanting to re-visit an old haunt from 2014 we pressed on, but past the station, the road  is completely neglected. It's the same as most logging roads that don't see any maintenance in years...nature starts to reclaim them through washouts, slides and erosion. We stopped at our destination: Shovel Creek Falls, but even the forest has overgrown the viewpoints that we enjoyed.
Past this point, the road degraded even further; the photo doesn't show how bad it is and some say it's not bad at all, but when your TWo-up on a TW...(see what I did?) it doesn't take much to get overwhelmed by the road conditions.

As part of our return-trip, we thought we'd pay a visit to another old haunt from 2015...the Clear Creek Hot Springs (hot tubs). My memory must be playing tricks on me because I definitely did NOT remember how much of a climb it was, or how rough the road was.
After making our fourth water-crossing (each deeper than the previous) and 100th cross ditch, I couldn't take any more, so we turned around.

Upon checking the GPS when we got home, it ends up we were less than 1 km from the hot springs when we turned tail. 
Just as well, since there were also TWO MORE water crossings along the way...and dozens of other people heading up.

On the way back down to the main FSR, I couldn't believe how steep the road was. Mind you, last time we were here on the DR650, so it wasn't a struggle to climb the hills.

The sand pit at the junction of Clear Creek and Harrison East FSR's.

The map of our travels...