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[bluealtered]

I loved all the pics that everybody shared with us of the southern half of the great state of Eastern Oregon, they brought back some good memory's. Here are a few of the northern part of Eastern Oregon.

I took these with a little cheap camera while running around up in the mountains a few miles from here so please bare with me. As i have said before it snows here, so I'll start with few shots of a old cabin that was built by miners many years ago. I tried to get some shots of the chimney which was both the chimney and the way you went in and out during winter. Sorry about the sideways shot but it was the only way i could get it in.

The last time i went up there the normal door had been half ripped off so no i didn't go inside since there was also fresh bear scat outside the door. (at least he was house broken!)

 

[snert]

very cool

 

[Lone Hunter]

Looks like they knew how to build. Cool looking cabin. Bare or Bear Necessities? Thanks for the pics. The old days were tough but much better I believe.

 

[Milo 2.0]

I'd clean it up and put a door on it, use it. If someone claimed it, you wouldn't be out much.

 

[#40Fan]

Turn that puppy into a time share!

Thanks for the pics. Way cool.

 

[snert]

exactly...you could add in some hemp ropes, a hammock, a Yeti cooler, build a zip line and rent it out to some adventuresome computer designer adrenaline junkie. Smear some molasses on the back wall of the place and give him the memory of a lifetime when bro Bear revisits!

 

[gambleone]

which was both the chimney and the way you went in and out during winter. Sorry about the sideways shot but it was the only way i could get it in.

The way you went in & out during winter??

 

[#40Fan]

Snow 15 feet high!!

 

[alinwa]

If you're from there then you'll know what this is........ (hint, it's NOT a jay )



http://desispeaks.com/gray-jay-named-canadas-national-bird-beats-loon-snowy-owl/

 

[bluealtered]

About 200yds behind that cabin is an old water plume that carried the water to the monitor, (water cannon) about 10ft beyond the plume is thin air. They washed that side of the mountain away, and if you go wandering around after dark behind the cabin you might find about a 100ft drop into a pond. On the other side of the pond are mines shafts, one of which i almost slid off into while sliding down the hill there on shale rock and not knowing there were shafts on that side of the hill. Once i got stopped and my eyes quit bugging out, i threw a big rock into the shaft and never did hear it hit bottom. My buddies had to throw me a rope and pull me back up the hill, the shale was to slippery to climb back up. (They also noted that my hair was a little grayer than it was before.)

alinwa, we call it here a camp robber.

snert, remind me to walk around any cabin i rent from you, Before i give you the money!

 

[alinwa]

alinwa, we call it here a camp robber.

That's actually a Clark's Nutcracker.......WIKKID noisy and found only where you live AFAIK

Kinda' like a high country version of the Magpie, only different.

 

[snert]

About 200yds behind that cabin is an old water plume that carried the water to the monitor, (water cannon) about 10ft beyond the plume is thin air. They washed that side of the mountain away, and if you go wandering around after dark behind the cabin you might find about a 100ft drop into a pond. On the other side of the pond are mines shafts, one of which i almost slid off into while sliding down the hill there on shale rock and not knowing there were shafts on that side of the hill. Once i got stopped and my eyes quit bugging out, i threw a big rock into the shaft and never did hear it hit bottom. My buddies had to throw me a rope and pull me back up the hill, the shale was to slippery to climb back up. (They also noted that my hair was a little grayer than it was before.)

alinwa, we call it here a camp robber.

snert, remind me to walk around any cabin i rent from you, Before i give you the money!

Wow! I am telling you that is a money maker if I ever heard of one! Bill it as an adventure park. Offer spelunking, gold mining, panning. "Make your fortune"!
Create some BS internet buzz....maybe add in a mythical personality...like Bronzo the Bear (gold teeth). Splash some REI and fashionable tree-hugger coffee stickers on your website. Show photos of furry unwashed hikers slumming in nylon hammocks above the plume, or even scaling the side of the hill in wet t shirts. Drop them off a mile from the place after transport in a VW bus. Geo-cache some non GMO coffee grounds, a little dried veggies and some purified Icelandic fjord water. Man, you have a huge money maker there!

 

[bluealtered]

snert, i somehow feel that if i wasn't careful i could end up buying a timeshare from you!! (and worse, i would be happy about it.)

 

[bluealtered]

That area had at one time some 5000 people there digging mines within about a one mile area. As i almost found out a lot of those mines never were closed, just walked away from. Some of the mines did have wooden covers put on top of them but that was many many years ago and a lot of those have rotted away, the ones that haven't yet now have 50-100 years of pine needles and everything else on top of them but are still rotten enough that if you were to step on them we probably wouldn't ever know how far you fell in the shaft.

There's a lot of history there just a very bad place to play if you aren't very careful.

 

[bluealtered]

snert I forgot to mention that the cabin has running water, this is about a quarter mile from the cabin. You can almost see the miners shoulder to shoulder panning out their diggings.

 

[snert]

That area had at one time some 5000 people there digging mines within about a one mile area. As i almost found out a lot of those mines never were closed, just walked away from. Some of the mines did have wooden covers put on top of them but that was many many years ago and a lot of those have rotted away, the ones that haven't yet now have 50-100 years of pine needles and everything else on top of them but are still rotten enough that if you were to step on them we probably wouldn't ever know how far you fell in the shaft.

There's a lot of history there just a very bad place to play if you aren't very careful.

My point exactly!!!!

 

[snert]

snert I forgot to mention that the cabin has running water, this is about a quarter mile from the cabin. You can almost see the miners shoulder to shoulder panning out their diggings.

Trout the size of submarines, fresh crystal clear water to refresh your bones aftera long hike to the plume. Kayak the class 7 rapids! (Take a close-up of a rock with water blasting around it)

 

[swd]

Wow! I am telling you that is a money maker if I ever heard of one! Bill it as an adventure park.

Be sure you get paid in advance! lol

 

[alinwa]

FLUME people, it's flume....... which is just WAYYYY cooler than any sort of "plume".

Olde Schoole waterslide! I know folks who've rode 'em for miles....I never have, though I've climbed 'em.

http://www.mendorailhistory.org/1_logging/flumes.htm

Sorry if I'm being picky but I've got the remains of probably 50 log flumes within 50mi of where I'm typing....

 

[snert]

heck, I just went with plume cause that is what the guy was calling it. And see that? I almost sold it anyhow! Imagine how successful he will be if he advertises with proper speelling!