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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1959)
SirNDAY, JUNE 7. 1959 tteratt) and news, kt.amatit fai.t.s. oreoon PACE THREE Rain Fails (Cvaturaee rrw Page 1) feasible "if we weren't in any hur ry, we weren (. Bidding adiiHi tn th iiv Ar Bly (Martin Caven when he had we Loggers uiuo mere had match books printed advertising his place uring m me neari 01 me uie ater district") we took off on the Dairy Creek cutoff some couple of miles out of town and headed for me miKwy slopes of Cearhart. - It was still a bright day. We found no difficulty on the road. Saw plenty of deer in the clear ings. Stopped off at the Mitchell mviiuiiieut tor uick io taice pic tures. As we tint inln th vifiniiii r Finley Corrals we started hitting a icw sort spots in i tie road but nothing that we couldn't handle lanuuy wnn me jeep, only had to use all four wheels once. Another pause at Picture Flat where we stood around iirthe mud and shot nirtur nt that litil. clearing. Went on down the hill and turneu on uie new road at the Up per Dairy Creek Bridge. From there on we went down the old road which is just like -a highway. Found a few trailers already es tablished in the campgrounds. At the Dairy Creek guard sta tion we turned down the Thomas Creek read for Lakeview. That read, due to extensive use. is in splendid shape. Got to Lakeview just a It started to cloud tin Paused for a light lunch at Van's and then took off straightaway or uie nan Mountain Antelope neiuge. Going out we drove across Darkes Flat and came into Plush. They are doing a lot of work on the road, straightening it out in a couple of places and building up the surface it looks like Went through Plush in a, hurry as we were trying to make up time by then. The clouds Were eettinir lnu.r the wind was blowing harder. By the time we got to the old CCC camp and paused to see if we could see any of the mountain sneep in the big pen it was start ing to spit a little rain. But we figured on netting oir. from under so went on. Up the ions graae with the floor of the valley spreading out under us Over the cattle guard at the top of the hill, past the stone buildings of headquarters and then on to the not spi ing. Found it just as it alwavs is. the lence around it a little greyer, the pool inside clear as crvstal. ft was only a matter of minutes until all three of us were soakina up us neaung warmth, digging our toes down into the soft sand at the bottom and flinging out bits of moss that floated around on the surface. But there was work to be aone. so we climbed out Into a bitter, icy wind, dried off on our shirts and dressed. Drove across the road into the public camp, which we had all to ourselves, and wandered up the "little creek look ing for four trees in just the right position so that we could sling a tarp. No luck, of course. But we did find three that were almost all right. By tearing down a deer rack that some hunters had left last fall and lashing the crossarm piece upright to the tail of the truck we managed to string up our tarp. By this time it was rainine li jht ly but firmly. Henderson was in favor of waiting "until it slacked off" before we did anything. Elm ers oia nis oit oy cutting enough urewooa io last l we thought) ror ever from an old dead tree. I superintended. By the time we got the fire go ing tne rain had "slacked off from a light rain to a steady down pour, a downpour that wasn t to let up. except to snow a little, until ociock the next morning. A search of various sleeping baa sacks and old bones turned up two piasnc sneets. we neeed these. Elmers tearing a hole in one, as a backwall. praying the wind wouldn't shift, and as a shroud over the kitchen area. nmazing what you II find in these isolated camns. We found enough old insulated cable lying around to tie up all the canvas The round end off a Western Elec tric cable spool, balanced on top oi tne giniD box lurnished us a din ing room table. An old table was ripped oil one tree and re- fastened, after five moves, to our man-made tree at the tail of the truck. A couple more planks found lying around boarded up the bot tom and made a sleeping berth for Henderson. ' With a warming fire Koine and dark coming on we dug a shallow pit at the perimeter of the tarn a.id started a bed of charcoal glowing. It wasn't long until the sound of broiling steaks almost drowned out the roar of the rain on the canvas roof. Only one hole in it, too. Right over my bed. Considering the scarcity of equipment we put in a pretty com fortable night. 1 woke up in the dawn's early light to find that 1 i had kicked my bag open and was I sleeping in about an inch of wet I snow, but that is all in the life oil the outdoors. Or so they say. By the time we had break last over with the rain had "slacked off and Henderson was vindi cated. Breaking camp was no big chore and we were on our way Another soak in the hot spring it having stopped raining by now and then on our way by way Adel. Lots of honkers along Cruma Lake. Lots of fishermen along the creeks Irom Adel to Lakeview. By the tune we got back I Klamath Falls it was bright and sunny again and no one would be- lieve that we had been out in the rain. So it goes with the wilderness wish. But the wish is back again al ready. Wonder where we should go next? BUSINESS BAROMETER? CIMOIMMUTt (I'Plili .-, .. mean a thing as fur as the na tion's economic hearth is concerned. but Osborne Komiier-Ttiomas. Inc., a greeting card manufacturer here, reports that its current best seller shows a woebegone beagle in the cover with a message in side savin?: "Doyenne it' W cur miss your business." Ford Trucks Last Longer en the FARM See your Farm Truck Headquarters BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Meia at Eta. Mi. TO 4-1121 V FT aaV 1 i TUB afcl 1 UAV mm a at . . . l il rHiw,on nn Mountain was the target of the camping trip last month when the rain came close to dampening everything. Maintained by the government within the boundaries of the Hart Mountain Antefope Refuge the spring it . meeting place each year for many members of the Order of the Antelope WT ft '" .ifyl m ' ' it-'- SrV Tvirl ; H u irmHEMun ki&hcc . , . . r. --,--...-...-..,,., oy jonn nenoerton at Uick E.mert hurr.et up the morning coffee. The tite wet the camp t Orippingttone Manor on . . T . "" '"or weeneno oy nenderion, last May. It reined the whole time the trie were in camp. ftn Henderson et Dick Eimert end Jenkins Now Is the Time io Immunize Your Stock Vaccine, Medicinal ndl Swpplia for CaHJrHrs, Skea H9 and Poultry 0 LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT la eWtitW te Save m4 Serve. VACCINE AND LIVESTOCK SPRAY Your One Stop Shopping Center We Civa Z-C Grew MERRILL PHARMACY Merrill, Ore. 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