Doug Firman
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Joined: Sep 20, 2009
Last seen: Dec 20, 2024
Topics: 37 / Replies: 243
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RE: Hawk Mountain Cabin needs help!

Nice job cleaning up the cabin! Thanks for doing that. I was there in August and the place stank so bad that I didn't spend much time inside. I ret...

1 week ago
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RE: Road 57

The FS has posted a notice that Rd 57 will be closed off and on for culvert work starting Jul 8 although they don't say where the culvert projects are...

6 months ago
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RE: Is it Oh Boy! Camp or Oh! Boy Camp?

OGN doesn't have a listing for Gifford Lake.

7 months ago
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RE: Is it Oh Boy! Camp or Oh! Boy Camp?

Kirk, you're right. There's also Finley Wildlife Refuge named after him.

7 months ago
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RE: Is it Oh Boy! Camp or Oh! Boy Camp?

I suppose the old adage of "don't believe everything you read in the newspaper" applies here. What has me scratching my head though is that the write...

7 months ago
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RE: Is it Oh Boy! Camp or Oh! Boy Camp?

I agree, it seems unlikely that there would be a fire lookout at Oh Boy. But how can we say for sure that there wasn't? Maybe it was a temporary-use...

7 months ago
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RE: Fish Creek Airstrip

The 1958 Estacada RD map shows the location of the LaDee airstrip.

7 months ago
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RE: Fish Creek Airstrip

I've seen references to the airstrip at LaDee but haven't seen anything about one near Peavine. Here's a newspaper clipping from 1946 about the LaDee...

7 months ago
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RE: Fish Creek Airstrip

There's some historical information about the airstrip and logging on Fish Creek in a book about the Dwyers. It's been a long time since I've looked ...

8 months ago
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RE: Hwy 224 Winter maintenance 2023

There was a large slide near the lower end of the Sandstone bridge which closed the road for a day or two. The burnoff of vegetation on that slope mi...

1 year ago
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RE: Weather info on the topo maps

Thanks, Rob. This is a useful service.

1 year ago
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RE: Made it up to Olallie Lake...

Regarding Road 4670, I was up at Graham Pass 5/24. Rd 4670 had about six inches to a foot of snow just to the north of its junction with Rd 6350 (whi...

2 years ago
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RE: 224 opening date set

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Road 46 and/or Road 57 to open. The FS recently started a second and redundant environmental review process o...

3 years ago
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