Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, July 21, 1966
Illinois Valley News
time accompanied by his daughter,
Carla, a young schoolmarm. This is
the same gal who last year went on
a prolonged hiking tour of northern
Europe, Lapland mainly, and while
in Sweden snared herself a young
physics engineer. She hustled him
back to San Francisco and, while he
was still groping ecstatically in the
fog of some 7th heaven, wrapped
and tied him up properly in a big
church wedding down home.
Inevitably the young couple’s
honeymoon itinerary included a
hiking trip in to Little Chetco for a
couple of days visit with Perry and
Ruth, and from force of habit the
same old guide was called upon.
The road over Fiddler Butte still
impassable to vehicles, and too far to
hike, we took the direct route up the
Canyon Creek Trail, over the divide
and down a long serpentine ridge on
the old Baileytrail that is the shortest
way down into Little Chetco.
Shortly before we arrived at
When one of my rich old aunts
passes to her reward and leaves me
a bundle (if only I had a rich old
aunt!), one of the first journeys I take
will be to Varmland, where I have
been invited by a pair of newlyweds
who will make their home in that
sunny Swedish province. The
Sundstroms, Eric and Carla, are
honeymooning here on our west
coast and will soon depart for the old
country.
A few years ago a prominent
California physician, Dr. Erickson,
came up from San Francisco with
his wife to visit their friends the
Davis’s, and called on me for
transportation into the wilds of
Curry County. This was my first
introduction to Little Chetco and
the Davis’s, Ruth and Perry. A year
or two later the doctor appeared
again with a similar request, this
our destination an innocent little
domestic drama was being enacted
there that smacks somewhat of the
mystic, and proves conclusively
that Perry, among other things, is
something of a seer. For a month not
a single visitor had set foot in their
cabin, and in all that time the floor
languished in its scuffed old paint.
Then on this memorable day Ruth
arose from her humble pallet with a
great inspiration: she would give the
kitchen floor a generous shellacking
with pretty red paint. Perry, being an
old pessimist and too clairvoyant by
far, announced with a wicked grill
that this would be the day she’d have
company. Truer words were never
spoken. Outside of the kitchen door
with her dripping paintbrush poised,
and with only 4 sq. ft. of floor to
go, she was suddenly startled by the
sound of yodeling and looked up to
behold three hungry-looking tramps
coming up the trail. What with the
sudden shock of our appearance
at this of all times, and Perry’s
fiendish laugh, no jury in the land
would have convicted her if she’d
whipped out a six-gun and cleaned
out the canyon. But her momentary
look of dismay quickly vanished,
and no newlyweds ever received a
warmer and friendlier greeting than
those two received back there in
the middle of nowhere, at the Davis
spread on Little Chetco. And the
newlyweds weren’t the only ones to
bask in the warmth of that sincerely
glad welcome.
For two days we three enjoyed
the incomparable Davis hospitality,
being shown over the mining
property and along the Little Chetco
trail, where several packrat-infested
old cabins still remain. It was at
one of these old claims that I struck
paydirt: two species of grass that I’d
never before collected.
I wouldn’t know, but I suppose
that under the powerful opiate of
newlywedism the principals would
experience only heavenly joy if they
were surrounded by rattlesnakes and
vinegaroons. But from the glowing
remarks they made on the trail out
these two had just enjoyed a segment
of their honeymoon that would
always be remembered with deepest
pleasure.
On the third day Perry and
Ruth took us to the top of the
divide in their jeep, and there bade
the NW’s godspeed –and me au
revoir. Following the trail down the
canyon,over Tennessee Pass and so
back into the Valley, fromwhence
improved trails lead–by land, sea and
air–to all parts of the globe; ending
atlast, for one happy youngcouple,
in Varmland, Sweden – whose
province flower, toend the piece
on an appropriately flowery note,
is none other than our own delicate
little Star-flower, there called by the
equally pleasing name of Forest Star.
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Arthritis Part 4: Gout
Gout is a complex form of arthritis that can occur
suddenly. The affected joint is hot, red or purple in color,
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