Re: Exploring more of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Grades...

A little more exploring: On Sunday, June 28, I headed back to the MSP country to find the last incline on Speckerman mountain. This incline came out of the Little Sandy Campground area and was used in 1923-24. I had searched for it previously but had come up empty handed. With a little help from a friend who had been there I explored the upper half of the incline.

Here's a shot looking down from near the top of the incline:

The Railroad Fire burned some of the incline off making it easier to find.

At the top was a piece of rail:


This rail had a date of 1914:


The grade immediately expanded out to two track wide and went back about 700 feet. Even though the fire had burned through, it was still quite difficult to maneuver around all of the brush and trees:


This is a view taken from near the end of the spur looking back:

Along the grade was lots of the ubiquitous wire rope.

To be continued...