Honeymoon Creek Culvert clogged again

It's been reported that the culvert at the Honeymoon Creek and the BPA Road is clogged again by a slide. How bad is unknown.

Update on Scenic Hot Springs

I thought I'd ramble just a little bit about what's happening at Scenic Hot Springs.

Mike, the new owner of the property, is still jumping through the hoops of bureauacracy in order to get the permits to take the springs public and I have been accompanying him on almost a weekly basis in surveying the terrain of the property . . . charting the location of all the springs (we've discovered a

Scenic Topo Survey Images

Scenic Topo Survey Images. . . as we obtain more data points the topography of Scenic Hot Springs is firming up. This screen capture from my surveying software shows the overall features of Scenic; including the BPA Road, the trail up to the springs, and the so-far identified hot spring sources along with water flows. To the lower left of the image you can see the beginnings of the planning for

This is what it is all about, isn't it? Why we must preserve Scenic in the most natural state possible. 

Scenic up near the springs was a winter fairy land this past week 

FS Gate Padlock Shot up Saturday

FS Gate padlock shot up Saturday 
Photo courtesy George

You know, whomever did this is giving a bad rap to people who supposedly like the great outdoors, and especially Scenic Hot Springs. What on earth could possess someone to engage in such silly vandalism? What is it going to prove? We will simply have the lock cut off and replaced . . . only first, we have to notify the Forest Service . .

How Not to Make a Campfire!

I took a quick trip up to Scenic this Wednesday to get some measurements and because I figure this might be the last time my trusty Honda Civic is going to be able to negotiate the FS road up past the gate . . . snows forecast for Wednesday night. Earlier in the week we had found that someone was building campfires up there so I figured I'd also get some shots of that and then spend some time