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Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
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Illinois Valley News
New Crazy
Ridge Road to
Hart Lake Area
A wide, smooth, firm-
surfaced road winding away
into the forested mountains
was only a dream to lovers
of the high back-country not
so long ago. True, to some of
us, who were glad to leave all
roads behind and follow the
old trails wherever they might
lead, such a dream was more
in the nature of a nightmare,
and the advent of the great
road-building machines that
were swept in on the tide of
forest harvesting that inevitably
rolled across our Valley and
wooded mountains some
years ago seemed like a major
calamity, especially to the old
prospectors and trail trampers
who considered this their
private domain and resented
having it tampered with, at
least on such an environment-
changing scale.
But many of them are
not hikers and climbers, nor
horseback riders, and without
mountain roads good enough
to drive their cars over in
safety and with some degree
of comfort these folks would
never get to see and enjoy
the close-up wonders of great
rocky bluffs and pinnacles,
flowered mountain meadows
and hidden lily-covered lakes.
To this latter group the
wonderful new forest roads
multiplying yearly are a
blessing, giving them access
to fascinating areas of their
chosen earth-spot that was
previously beyond their reach.
And the old-timer hold-outs,
who somewhat shamefacedly
realize that their attitude of
wanting to preserve the old
natural environment intact for
themselves might possibly
have been motivated by some
selfish attribute, are swinging
into line with reality and are
drifting along more or less
contentedly with the modern
tide.
Personally, I am no
longer filled with a sense of
horror when I hear the clanking
machinery of the timber
harvesters and see the great
evergreens toppling and the
scars along the mountainsides
where the access roads lead
into the heavily timbered
areas. The unsightly logged-
over areas, I know, will soon
be green again and before
the slow-growing timber
trees darken the surface once
more with their dense shade
the site will be colorful with
a multitude of flowers that
quickly take advantage of the
newly sun-drenched land.
Since time, and grudging
self-education, have allowed
my ruffled feathers to settle
back into place, and I find,
that the new state of affairs
doesn’t signify a complete state
of disaster after all, I’ll even
confess that watching the new
roads penetrate the rough back
country has become more of a
thrill than a feeling of regret.
Just yesterday, taking
advantage of the fact that all
logging and road-building
is at a standstill because of
severe fire hazard due to the
prolonged hot, dry spell, I
went on a jeep trip up into
the mountains to satisfy my
curiosity about a new road
being built up along the side
of Crazy Ridge, and on around
toward Mud Lake.
It’s a weirdly odd
sensation to glide leisurely
along, sitting on a soft cushion,
through a once-forbidding
wilderness of trees, brush, and
boulders that you used to have
to fight your way through on
foot. Where I used to spend
hours making a mile or two
of progress up in that Black
Butte country, I now found
myself riding through that
unbelievably rough area below
Black Butte, a distance of 3
miles of newly-built road, in
only a few minutes.
I drove to where the
lately immobilized road-
building machinery was
clustered at the end of the road,
and then hiked on for another
half mile, following the right-
of-way. Turning south then I
climbed up a steep, forested
ridge for another half mile,
around a high rocky peak, and
there below me, between the
two high ridges, I saw what I
was looking for – little lily-
speckled Hart Lake, in one
of the most beautiful natural
settings I know. So inaccessible
that few know of its existence,
I hadn’t visited it for several
years.
I spent about an hour at
the lake, and then followed the
steep rocky gorge that carries
its overflow down to where it
runs through a culvert under
the new road. I came within
a hundred yards of where my
jeep was waiting. Thanks to the
new road, that was the easiest
trip I ever made in to Hart
Lake.
Many such park-like
beauty spots as Hart Lake
and Young’s Valley are so
sparsely forested and so rocky
and precipitous that logging
operations are never likely to
spoil them. It is to such places
as these that the marvelous new
Forest Service roads will allow
us to drive, within easy hiking
distance and make accessible
many of the high beauty spots
that would not otherwise be
available to many who would
like to get up once in a while to
where the sky is a little bluer,
the air a little purer, and where
the scenery all around is a
calendar picture come to life.
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Hart Lake
The Archive Zone:
by Hillary Mohr from the Illinois Valley News archives
This week brings us to the summer days
of June 26, 2002. Summer was here, and of
course, so was the weird. From coconuts, to
indoor grow busts and nearly everything in
between, that’s right Valley, it’s none other
than this week’s Archive Zone.
*Selma incident leads deputies to pot
project. During the investigation of a family
disturbance at 177 Hogue Drive involving
possession of marijuana, deputies from
Josephine County Sheriff’s Office learned
of an indoor marijuana grow. William Frank
Allen, 35, was contacted at 200 Hogue Drive
in Selma, according to Josephine Interagency
Narcotics Team (JOINT) by patrol deputies
and JOINT officers. Allen consented to
a search of his property, said JOINT, and
admitted that he was growing marijuana and
had been doing so for several years. As a result
of the search, 38 growing marijuana plants,
numerous pieces of growing equipment,
documents, scales and dried marijuana were
seized. Charges against Allen will be referred
to the Josephine County District Attorney’s
Office.
*A Kerby resident was concerned that his
wife left their residence, possibly on the way
to another state, and took two 16-ounce beers,
but no medicine or clothing.
*There was a complaint from Selma that
a wanted man was speeding on a road.
*In Kerby a man said that his wife had
returned home safely.
*Someone was reported staggering in the
middle of Caves Hwy. near Caves Avenue at
8:44 p.m.
*A Selma resident complained of a
suspicious incident in which a woman left a
message on his answering machine to “just get
the hell out of here.”
*A Selma resident said he had third-hand
information that a murder contract was out on
him.
*When a Selma business owner found
a coconut with nails in it and a phone cord
hanging out, there was suspicion that it might
be a pipe bomb, but it wasn’t.