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

Continuing our journey: about 1/4 mile west of the main spur heading downhill was another spur that was un-mapped:

We are looking west. My wife is on the mainline heading out to Granite Creek Gap.

I followed this spur and found it headed in a northwest for about 400 feet, dropping down to a small saddle, then climbing up the other side for about 100 feet. Here's a photo from the saddle looking back towards the mainline:

This is one of the longest spurs I have found that wasn't mapped...

Here's the end of the spur:


There wasn't much in the way of artifacts: some wire rope and this rail joiner:


I returned to the mainline and we continued west.

To be continued...