Re: 2019 Madera Sugar Pine Explorations

Picking up from where we left off yesterday:

I continued hiking a little further down the incline. I spotted this part lying off to the side:

Looks like they used this roller until it couldn't be used any more...
At the bottom of the photo you can see part of the telegraph line the incline used.

Here's a view looking down the incline a littler further on:

Amazing that it is still possible to easily walk this considering it has been abandoned for almost 90 years..

I then hiked uphill from the incline and checked for any other signs of logging grades. I ran into two of these trenches:

These look like skid roads...

I returned to the top of the incline and tried to find evidence of where the hoist house had been. Unfortunately, the upper area has been very disturbed by salvage logging and the only thing I could find was this collection of wire rope:


Next: visiting the bottom of the incline...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2019 10:13AM by Dave Peterson.