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Hiking, Cascade Mountains

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Lund Park

Parking area is here at Lund Park, also camping facilities as well.  Lund Park was actually a stop over for miners going to the Bohemia Mines.  A hotel and Inn were here until after 1940.  As late as 1960 a family still lived here in the last building standing.  Hardly any evidence any more as to what was here.IMG_5297

Marten Flume Creek

The Marten Flume Trail head is at Lund Park on Brice Creek Road in the Bohemia Mining District.  the flume carried water down from Marten Creek to a catch basin that in turn ran an electric generator to provide power to the local Hotel and road side inn at Lund Park.  The flume was built in the 1920’s and snow destroyed it sometime in the 1950’s at which time it was not rebuilt.  The buildings are all long gone now, the last building standing, had a family living in it until sometime around 1960, possibly later.

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The trail is rated difficult and we were on it just after it rained, which made it more difficult due to the wet and muddy conditions.  Very steep portions with no gravel making it slick in spots and other locations with debris to climb over.

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Trail was cut into the side of the mountain, which was very steep when getting off of the trail.

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The trail eventually will come to a cross trail you can take to connect to Knott Trail or continue on back to Lund Park.

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Some of the scenery available along the trail.

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This is actually a caved in mine.  I do not know how far in it went at one time and it also is possible that it was used as a cellar for the local inn and hotel.  I remember seeing it back in the mid 60’s and at that time it still had not caved in.

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Yours truly with hiking buddy.  If you are thinking of finding this trail and trying it out, please remember that it is bear country.

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My sister with her trail pal.

The trail is through what looks a lot like old growth forest but I believe that it is old second growth.  The trail loop is around two miles, and exited about 100 yards east of where we started, at Marten Creek.

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Pictures In And Around the Grand Canyon

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Bottom of the canyon is an old mine, can’t see it but it is supposed to be on the river.

IMG_2168 IMG_2223 We have been home now for several months and I finally got back to going through the pictures taken during our dash home from Mississippi.

 

A lot of these pictures are cloudy and that is from the conditions found at the sites where they were taken.  It was late in the afternoon for most of them and the sun being very bright brought out the haze in the pictures.

 

The Park Service had stopped letting hikers go down into the canyon be the time we arrived, they said it was the end of the vacation season, although by this time my arthritis was keeping me from wanting to walk anyway.

 

 

The Hopi had planted fields way down their on the river.

 

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Isolated homestead leading into the Grand Canyon National Park.

Isolated homestead leading into the Grand Canyon National Park.

Not sure what the people living here did for a living.  There was no animals or farming implements.  Very far from any town or other possible locations???

 

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