![]() ![]() ![]() In 1974, another group of YCC'ers couldn't work on the trail due to a massive snowfall that buried the Cascades that winter and spring. We were turned back by a blizzard that nearly stranded us up the logging road to the trailhead. In the winter of 1973-74, a couple of us trail builders made an intrepid attempt to snowshoe to the top of Table Rock in the midst of a raging snowstorm. In 1973 the trail was built up to the saddle between Rooster Rock and Table Rock. One black bear was surprised in the berry patches along the trail - deer wandered through the trailwork areas - and pikas peeped daily at the intruders building a trail that would ultimately provide the impetus to preserve this area as wilderness. On days bathed in glorious sunshine and others drenched in torrential Pacific Northwest rains the crews of teenager hiked up the trail each morning tools in hand to move boulders, slash through the underlying vegetation, and find ways to snake a footpath up and up the steep hillsides heading to a massive talus slope at the foot of Table Rock. In the summer of 1973 a group of high school students participating in the Youth Conservation Corps sponsored by the Salem District of the Bureau of Land Management began the work of carving a trail out of the wilderness starting at the edge of a logging road. The Table Rock Wilderness is an oasis of deep forest surrounded by a sea of clearcuts and forest re-growing after past timber harvests. ![]()
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