Oregon Mine Camp Traditional Cache
Baron Max and Mrs. Max: Well Folks-
Looks like this cache box has been muggled.
We will ask that it be permanenly archived.
--Baron Max and Mrs. Max
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The Oregon Mine Camp is located about fifteen miles up into the forest from Fossil Fields Forever on forest road 21 south off Highway 26 to the east of Dayville.
We spent a week in July with volunteers and ODFW fish biologists scientifically searching the streams and creeks of this industrial forest for juvenile steelhead destined to swim more than 400 miles, 5,000 vertical feet down the John Day River to the open ocean beyond the Columbia only to return again to spawn where they were born. We found fish several inches long in the pools and riffles, some just feet from the springs welling ice-cold water into this habitat, damaged by 50 years of timber extraction and cattle grazing.
More than twenty of us camped at Oregon Mine Camp and adjoining primitive sites along forest road 2170. Plan to camp if you can, and explore the Aldrich Mountains of the Ochocos along well maintained gravel logging roads and see the forest struggling to recover from past exploitation and mismanagement of this vast resource.
The Cedar Grove Botanical Reserve is nearby as you will note from the Oregon Road and Recreation Atlas, made in Oregon by Benchmark Maps and sold everywhere. This Atlas has current forest road detail and topography and provides large-scale maps to go with the detailed USGS maps printed form Maptech’s Terrain Navigator.
The cache is placed at the foot of an old growth ponderosa left to shade this old campsite and is easy to see if you are looking in the right direction. It is well stocked with outdoor goodies and, for a lucky person, 1,000 free hours of AOL with the purchase of a long-term contract.
Additional Hints
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