Ice damage is possible on the OHT at and above the 2000 ft level.   Please post any damages you encounter here and what section/milemarker you were hiking.  Thanks for your help!

Highway 23 is now open.  One way surface, yield to on-coming traffic.

80-81 mile marker section of the OHT is now clear and passable.
Thanks to 10 very hard working volunteers (Mike Lemaster, Bill Dark, Kevin Middleton, Eric Henretty, Greg Henretty, Jeff Dicello, Chris Adams, Mike McKinnon, Roy Senyard and Bob Robinson) started at daylight and came out with headlights. A total of 132 volunteer hours!!

East Fly Gap Road is CLOSED! You can drive to Fly Gap on the road but 1 mile east of Fly Gap and 1 mile west of Morgan Fields Trailhead there are "ROAD CLOSED" signs. This is due to a slide that occurred about 4 years ago. The area the slide occured in has become very unstable and the Forest Service has closed it. East Fly Gap Rd. is also Forest Rd. #1503. To reach Morgan Fields Trailhead one must take Hwy.215 to Redding Campground
and just past it turn onto Morgan Mountain Rd.

Mile marker 102.3 (Gee Creek)-Trail washed out for approx.50ft. due to fallen tree and large root-ball.

Mile marker 119.4-Trail washed out and dangerous. Large trees across the trail from the 119.7 mile markker to the 122.1 mile marker.

OHT is NOW open from Falling Water Creek to Richland Creek Campground ( mile markers 139.6 to 144.1) The road itself is still closed and the Richland Creek Campground is closed. The Forest Service has NO date set to reopen either the road or campground. 
A hearty crew of 10 volunteers sawed, lopped, sidehilled and blazed the slide area and beyond to re-open this section. Also the register box at the 144.3 mile maker was repaired and re-stocked with register cards and pencils for hikers.
Special thanks to Bobby Raney, Rita O'Kelly, George Regan, Ed (Chain-Saw) Hall, Mark Holt, Bill Dark, Wade(the ROCK MAN) Colwell, Jim McDaniel, Norma Senyard, and Roy Senyard.

 Use special caution in the area of mm 39.0 to 39.6 of the OHT when following an approximately  hundred yard temporary route bypassing a recent landslide as dangerous additional instablility may be present. 

The BNR/OHT from Woolum to Tyler Bend is open.  6 newly built miles of 26 are open from Spring Creek Road to Hwy 14.  The 15.7 mile OHT Route from Hwy 14 to Spring Creek Trail Head remains ladden with ice storm debris.

Spring Creek Trail Head 31.6 miles to Matney Trail Head near Norfork, AR, is cleared of ice damage and fully maintained.  Special thanks to Steve Sampers, Wayne Fulmer, Wendy Johnson, Dawna and Bob Robinson, Mike Lemaster, Rick Watkins Allen Piercy, Nancy Varvil, Jim McDaniel, Bobby Price, Judy and Duane Woltjen, and the USFS.