Trip Report
Something Hidden

by MH2
Thursday October 13, 2016 2:45pm
I don’t remember whether he told me about the cabin and I asked him about the boulder, or the other way around. However it went, meeting with Don McPherson a few months ago got me to go looking. For something. Maybe the past.



The man


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The boulder


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Looking


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Clouds lifting


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Conceiving a plan


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From the other side


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The top


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Someone was here before


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The bottom


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After the battle through the roof


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Back near the top


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Remains of a cabin


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Comments
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
  Oct 13, 2016 - 02:47pm PT
wild!
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Author's Reply  Oct 13, 2016 - 02:51pm PT
fast
clode

Trad climber
portland, or
  Oct 13, 2016 - 03:43pm PT
Where is that place? It looks a lot like somewhere in the PNW Cascades (OR, WA)?

Nice photos BTW, thanks for posting!

MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Author's Reply  Oct 13, 2016 - 04:11pm PT
Just a little further north. Don used to climb in WA.
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
  Oct 13, 2016 - 05:07pm PT
I love a good mystery. Thanks.
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
  Oct 13, 2016 - 05:09pm PT
Very nice. Thanks.

That boulder looks a lot like boulders along Newlin Creek here in southern Colorado. I only discovered them after I had quit, but others, including Fred Nicole, have played there. However, a few years before I retired from climbing I would hike up the trail for about a mile to a 50 ft cliff that ran uphill, allowing me to work on a hard rising traverse for about 40 feet where I was never over two feet from the ground!
limpingcrab

Gym climber
Minkler, CA
  Oct 19, 2016 - 06:13pm PT
Lembert Dome?
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
  Oct 19, 2016 - 06:54pm PT
Found a cabin like that once, a long way from anywhere a cabin should be. But the one I found hadn't yet decayed, and I, knowing it was probably occupied by vampires, kept my distance.

Say hi to Don for me when next you see him.
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Author's Reply  Oct 19, 2016 - 08:01pm PT
I will be happy to let Don know you said hi next time I see him, Dave. He lights up when he starts talking about things he has done and places he has been, and the people he has met along the way.

There is one opinion that the cabin remains shown above are from one of the Munday cabins, shown below back in the 20s. Their name comes up in connection with two cabins; one on Grouse where they were caretakers, and another which Don Munday built . That cabin may have had other occupants, later. There were Melmac dinner plates dated 1953 (but made in Canada!).

A gentleman named Athol Agur had a cabin further out behind Grouse. He was killed in an avalanche maybe in '28 or '29.

There are others out there, now. Today I visited a friend living in a place he built out in the woods. When I first heard about him I took him for a hermit, but he tells me he is actually a Bohemian and would be living in Paris if he had the money.









Lembert Dome is always in the running.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
  Oct 19, 2016 - 08:16pm PT
nice
bump
nah000

climber
now/here
  Oct 19, 2016 - 08:22pm PT
really enjoyable.

thank you...
zBrown

Ice climber
  Oct 19, 2016 - 08:35pm PT
Cabin et tree

.. er ..

Boulder

++
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
  Oct 19, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
Moccasins? Really? It looks like Wellies were indicated. Good NW fun!
scaredycat

Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
  Oct 19, 2016 - 09:50pm PT
nice, bump as some above have said, but:

You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
The Lisa

Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
  Oct 20, 2016 - 06:10am PT
My first thought was of the Cascades, too. I love the eerie, misty woods.
Oplopanax

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
  Oct 21, 2016 - 12:53pm PT
That arete is a lot bigger than the Donut Bluff one on Black Mtn, that's for sure. I guess it's on the verboten side though?
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Author's Reply  Oct 21, 2016 - 07:02pm PT
Yes. It's on the north side.

I was surprised to discover a trail going down the main ridge, too, and another trail on the back side.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
  Oct 25, 2016 - 12:32pm PT
I dug through my photos and found a couple showing the mystery cabin I found a few years ago. It sits just a bit back from the lip of a ridge that terminates abruptly in a 500 ft wall. No easy way to get to it, and no reason that I can think of for it to be there. Unless it's a vampire nest.



The cabin was maybe 25 meters back from the edge. Here's what is directly below...


Now, it may not have been a vampire nest, but it did give off an odd vibe. I wanted to check it out, but didn't have much time, as it had taken me longer to get up there than I expected, and there was a lot of rock to be scoped out below. So I promised myself I'd come back and check it out on another trip.

Mari and I and a couple of our friends wound up spending a lot of time on that wall, but I never did get back to the cabin.

Maybe in a couple of weeks (if the weather clears) or next spring.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
  Oct 25, 2016 - 12:33pm PT
Interesting -- but, for me, virtually clueless.

Thanks for stoking my curiosity.

John
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