It must not have been a big deal. It appears the closure is gone now. Sorry for the false alarm!

Hopefully it isn't too bad. The description changed and the road is not totally closed now: A wildfire has the EB lane closed between Fish Creek...

kirk said We stopped at the ford for lunch and this was our turn around point. It wasn't too difficult to cross the creek on the log: As evidenced ...

Interesting. I've never seen that cabin on 4630, but maybe I was always too busy either driving or looking off to the right. How far past Silvertip ...

I'm curious as to where you found the two competing "stories" for the original ownership? Also, I thought I had heard that PGE sold Austin to a pri...

I looked at the photo of Oak Grove posted from 1935 and I didn't see any lookout in it, but that was just a small part of Oak Grove, so it is possible...

Very interesting info, Doug. I had always heard there was never a structure up there. After having visited that peak, I really have no idea where th...

Doug: Thanks for posting this - it was really interesting to read. What is now highway 26 was paved to the Multnomah county line, then gravel to San...

What is amazing to me is that even after 50 years the impact area is still very visible. It appears the plane hit hard and hot fires burned for a whi...

I don't have any info on what kind of lookout was there. The only info I have is the panorama photos, which it sounds like you've already looked at. ...