Re: Exploring more of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Grades...
| June 30, 2020 09:26AM |
It's unfortunate that the largest rock wall I've found on the MSP is also the most inaccessible...
Continuing our journey:
Passing through the saddle I looked on the left side of the grade and saw a couple of nice ties:
I then came to an area that looked somewhat familiar:
It sure looks like the location of this photo:
The line split here into two spurs. The one directly ahead ran west for about 100 feet and stopped on the edge of a canyon. The one to the right curved around the side of the hill and entered thick brush:
This spur continued curving for a couple of hundred feet until it ended facing northeast:
To be continued...
Continuing our journey:
Passing through the saddle I looked on the left side of the grade and saw a couple of nice ties:
I then came to an area that looked somewhat familiar:
It sure looks like the location of this photo:
The line split here into two spurs. The one directly ahead ran west for about 100 feet and stopped on the edge of a canyon. The one to the right curved around the side of the hill and entered thick brush:
This spur continued curving for a couple of hundred feet until it ended facing northeast:
To be continued...
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