Re: Yet Another Day on the Madera Sugar Pine Grades...

We found that we could skirt the tree to the right of the railroad grade and continued on our way. About 50 feet past the large fallen tree was a spur heading off the the right:

This spur is indicated on the map as the first spur after the grade turns to the west. It was only about 1/8 of a mile long.

Here's a view about 100 feet down looking back towards the main (and a large group of fallen trees I had to navigate):


Here's a view looking the other way towards the end of the spur:


Towards the end, there was a large pile of large diameter wire rope:

For a short while I had hopes that an un-mapped incline lay at the end of the spur, but that was not the case...

Retracing my steps, we continued on towards Granite Creek Gap. Here's a nice view of the ROW about 1/2 mile further on:

The fire was more severe here...

To be continued...