Hint #2: This is in the Collawash drainage. A big stream is directly behind me about 30 ft straight down

So Brian is that the old Bagby Trail along the Hot Springs Fork of the Collawash River?

Don you're very close. You could've indeed gotten to Baghby on this trail, but it's not the one that takes off at the hard corner in the road.

How about the trail going up Nohorn Creek?

That'd be the one. This spot is the west bank of where the trail crossed Hugh Creek. (It's the creek on the map between Nohorn Creek and Baghby.) Donovan has been here, but that's no shock.