Photo 1 - Most of the road has little vegetation growth other then grasses and forbs. [3654-27]

Photo 2 - Aerial view of another section showing road with little vegetation growth other then grasses, forbs and bare gravel.  [3634-1]

Photo 3 - Some sections of the road have low brush generally less than four feet high, which would be depressed by passing of the tracked vehicle and sled. [3654-16]

Photo 4 - Another example of a road segment with low brush generally less than four feet high, which would be depressed by passing of the tracked vehicle and sled. [3635-1]

Photo 5 - There are very few wet or muddy spots on the road.  These spots

comprise only a few hundred feet of the entire 14 mile road.  And this area has gravel only a foot or two deep. [3653-13a]

Photo 6 - Minor sloughing of cobbles and gravel back slope onto road.  Very minor blade work might be needed but there is little muddy material that could fall into McCarthy Creek. [3654-3]

Photo 7 - There are two locations with side hill slopes.  The most difficult section is approximately 2,000 feet long.  The major hazard here is to the operator, not the terrain, because of several short sections of glaciering where springs higher on the slope issue small amounts of water that seep downhill and freeze in the current fall temperatures, making any cross slope on the road surface slick for traversing even with tracked vehicles. [IMAGE007.rotated]

Photo 8 - Typical of the sixteen stream crossings of the road.  In all cases these crossings are in reaches where the stream bed consists of coarse-grained soils (gravel, cobbles and boulders).  There are no fine-grained soils where tracked vehicle crossings would generate any significant amount of mud in the water. [3635-21]

Photo 9 - Another typical of the road route along the McCarthy Creek floodplain.  As long as the crossings are made at near right angles to the stream beds, these stream crossings will affect an insignificant portion, 0.26%, of the stream bed of McCarthy Creek. [3653-5]