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Red Rock Camp
Posted: April 25th, 2019, 4:04 pm
by drm
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: April 27th, 2019, 2:06 pm
by MarkInTheDark
Cool report!
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: May 4th, 2019, 2:17 pm
by drm
Forgot to mention that there were just a couple logs down, nothing serious. One might be hard to step over for the short-legged. I've been away for a week doing family stuff.
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: May 5th, 2019, 4:48 am
by Webfoot
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: May 5th, 2019, 6:58 am
by woodswalker
Thanks for the info. Surprisingly, after all these years I haven't been up the Benson. On my list for this spring. Colette Grace
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: May 5th, 2019, 3:59 pm
by drm
Benson Plateau can get bad mosquitoes by mid-summer, so best to get up there by some time in June if you can if you are camping. Usually they aren't bad until July, though who knows this year.
Re: Red Rock Camp
Posted: May 15th, 2019, 7:44 am
by bobcat
Just FYI, the 'red rock' here is actually a Boring volcano thrust up through the Columbia River Basalts, like Nesmith Point, Yeon Mountain, etc.
Doing work on the 400 Trail below Yeon Mountain after the fire, some trail workers were surprised to be digging into soft red soils and theorized that the intensity of the fire had "burned" the earth that color. No, we were actually digging away at deposits washed down from Yeon, which had its north flank carved off by the Bretz Floods - a conflation of three major geologic events - basalt flows (+/- 15 m.y.a), Boring volcanoes (1.2 million to 100,000 years ago), and the big floods (15,000 - 13,000 years ago).