A good trivia question. When is a plantation a pristine wilderness?

A. When it's within 50 miles of Portland.

B. When it's less than 100 years old.

C. When the elusive charlesticus erectimus can be spotted.

D. All the above.

Don2

Hey Don2, you are having way too much fun on this one. I know the postings of late have been slim to none, so I guess that gives you a free license to go where you have never gone before. Most people don't know that the lastest wilderness inclusions in our district have some paved roads and even clearcuts included in them, not what you would normally think of as wilderness attributes. The tree plantation is another one those attributes of one of the new  wilderness areas, for 90% of it was burnt to the ground and had to be replanted. Most areas of it don't look like a tree plantation, but where that photo was taken, the trees were planted parellel to the trail.

Don

Well, I'm pretty sure that trail in in the new Roaring River Wilderness area, but I can't figure out which trail it is.  It doesn't look like a well used trail.

Don1, you are right. Too much phun.

So Rob, you are close enough. You win!

Indeed it is Ye Olde Cougar Trail.

Don2

Donovan said 
So Rob, you are close enough. You win!

 

Indeed it is Ye Olde Cougar Trail.

 

Don2

So which side of the canyon was this on?  I've only been on the trail once, but this doesn't look familiar to me.  Although - the day I was on it was WET and foggy.

I will look for a new photo.