2021-05-16, 07:29 PM
(2021-05-16, 11:44 AM)John Morrow Wrote: Some fun looking ridgerunning there, MG. Psyched to follow in your steps out to Colville some day. Did that trail seem to continue beyond down toward the valley? I am wondering what its purpose is and why it is cairned? Peakbaggers...?
So Colville is just a ridge, with a bump at the end, before it drops more steeply. I was really surprised first time there to find a register at all. And with only a bit more then one party a year (at least signing) it's not a peak bagger's kind of trail. And it's too well marked - some decent sized cairns, not little piles of duck rocks. From the far (north) side, stuff is very loose and slides a lot, so track tend to get wiped out, but there's a pretty clear use trail down towards the first saddle, but then it sort of vanishes. I called it an "Indian trail" because I saw one or two signs of temporary dwellings (rock circles) out there and I have read that the Timbasha went up to the forest for the summer. But I don't know of any water source up there.
Nor do I know of any mines in the area, and I don't see any marked on the map. All in all, rather mysterious, and I was sure rather surprised, but grateful! when I first found the trail across the scree.