November 30, 2004 02:15PM
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Hi, Scott -
Some friends and I hiked up to the CG turntable site from Ironton in 1966 or '67, and again in '71, in late summer when the creek was low and fordable. The once nearly treeless slopes were thick with aspen, and spruce were beginning to fill in as well. The circular rock wall of the pit was pretty well intact, but there were several trees growing in the pit. There were remains of a few timbers from the 1890's, but they were pretty well rotted away.
To avoid the fairly steep hike up from Ironton it MIGHT be possible to drive from Eureka to within a half-mile or so of the site, since much of the right-of-way survives as a mine access road, but with the increase in mining activity in the 1980's most of these roads were posted with very emphatic "NO TRESPASSING" signs, so we didn't get very far the last time I tried.
- Russo de los Locos
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Scott Green |
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