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| Hiking | 9.86 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 9.86 Miles | 5 Hrs 34 Mns | | 1.92 mph |
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| partners | | I hadn't hiked with Mark in 18 years, so it was time.
We parked at the intersection of 201 and 191, then hiked up to 1701 and hiked that to its end. On the way out we saw the one prospect that went into the hillside horizontally a little and then up above we saw what's listed as "Mine" on HAZ Topo, which we would hit on our way back.
At the very end of 1701 there was a wood structure that looked like it might be for a mine, but it was very overgrown there. The Pine Mountain Mine looked to be located higher up the hillside on the topo, so we bushwhacked up the drainage and hillside to what looked like a flat area that might reveal a mineshaft. No such luck. Fortunately, once we were up there, I spotted an easier way to get back to 1701 without having to scale down the steep, loose, rocky, overgrown hillside. The area where the Pine Mountain Mine is shown on the map has many signs of activity, but no obvious mine was located by us.
The "Mine" on the maps a little further in is located pretty much right where HAZ Topo shows it. It's off the road but there is a fairly clear pathway to get up there to look at it. There is a metal grate at the entrance, but the bottom beam has been cut. The opening was big enough to just get through if you took off your pack and crawled in. I kind of wanted to, but I also wasn't really feeling it. The mine goes back as far as we could see with our headlamps. As we talked in front of it, I could our voices echoing back out at us from inside the mine in odd lower frequencies. A little eerie but also pretty cool.
Next, we hiked back to 191 and hiked out to the mine there. Thankfully there is another road that branches off 191 that takes you up there and it's pretty clear. It's also a pretty good climb up there from 191. The mine itself is pretty shallow, unless maybe it's been filled in. It looks deeper at first, and if you fell it might be a long day trying to get out, even with the wood and metal beams criss crossing into it. Mark mentioned two storage bins of some sort that used to be there but were gone. Later we spotted them right were he said they were. The manzanita covers things deceptively well once it grows in.
Mark showed me the swingest/jungle gym that's a little below the mine and the burnt out trailer. Looks as though a family or families may have lived there while working the mine? Lots of questions. The jungle gym is really very sturdy, in better shape than you would expect.
We hiked another mile on 191 past the junction to the mine than turned around as the road began to descend and it started to get a little hot. Once we got back, 2 mountain bikers arrived from behind us on 191. They had started from Deer Creek and said they took 87 south to where it meets 191. They asked us if we had extra water. Mark filled their bottles with water from his backpack and I handed them 2 still cool Gatorades, which lit their eyes up. They asked how to get back to Deer Creek TH doing a loop going up 201. We gave them directions the best we could and wished them luck. Didn't see anything on the news so I assume they made it back ok. |
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