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The material could be routed to several other areas and processing equipment inside but the light didn't make for any decent pictures. Have to ask a miner friend about some of it. For instance some of the material from the mill could be send to what looked like a chimney made of steel. It had...

The ball mill The tailings come out of the mill down the trough on the right To these things with "catch" pockets and windows in the sides then to these shaker tables

The hunter on the prowl Well the outhouse is open So we've run the Magruder. The trail/road was pretty much more of the same, mountains, trees, creeks, etc. We make our way toward Elk City and this catches our attention. Time for a detour. We backtrack to a bridge crossing the...

8-19 Burnt Butte to Orofino Ah a blue sky morning! Down the hill Next stop Green Acre Lookout. This one is locked up tight :( But I go as far as I can Looking west and south

8-18 This lookout station was open for business! And with the storm I wasn't really motivated to drive back down that trail. This building is literally balancing on the rock. The guywire goes all the way around and is anchored at all four corners. It also serves as the lightening rod! There are...

8-18 Saw a few of these critters along the way Area info Now we on to something interesting. Burnt Butte Lookout, 4WD recommended. Really nothing a stocker couldn't negotiate. But more interesting none the less. Just to make it more fun a storm was coming in, wind rain, thunder and...

8-18 Magruder Road Going downhill again Come on I want to chase chipmunks! Checking the back trail And uphill

8-18 Magruder Road Just some scenery One surprise, probably half the lands along the road had burned. Some according to the signs as much as 100 years ago. All the fires were caused by lightening. Seemed like it should be growing back faster but what do I know. It was another hot day...

8-18. We head off not knowing if we'd have to backtrack or get thru. The Magruder road is popular because it is the only road thru the Frank Church Wilderness Area. It draws lots of cross country motorcyclists and a few folks in cars and trucks. There is nothing in the way of services along...

Somewhere along here we crossed into Montana. From here we headed toward Conner and Darby. The plan was to get on the Magruder and head west. We got to the Forest Service station just after it closed. A worker there said the Magruder was washed out. I talked to the forest "supervisor" three...

After a while all the creeks run together and I can't remember which ones are in the pics. The roads in this area pretty much follow the creeks, Williams Creek to Moccasin Creek to Napias Creek to Panther Creek Mining history as we came into Shoup. The maps show lots of mines. Few have...

8-17 Headed for the Magruder road via Shoup. As far as scenery and forest and general back country this leg of the trip was the best. Back on the road and to the outskirts of Salmon Idaho. From Salmon it was some long stretches of dirt road. I can' count the times we climbed to 8000' then went...

Camped along the river where Lost Creek runs into the Salmon River. Not sure what these buildings are for. There were several along the road on the other side of the River. You could see the mountain thru the door so it doesn't look like they were tunnel entrances. And another day done.

Stopped at a site a few miles off the pavement. We were going to take this road across the mountains but opted to go back to the blacktop so we'd have time to poke around on the Magruder Road. The scarp both directions for as far as you could see. The mountains behind the scarp look...

There were several of these kilns scattered throughout the area. Some were just rock ovens like this and others were like cement walls like the second pic The rain/snow gave us our first taste of Idaho gumbo. One taste was enough. This stuff was so slick that I could not climb even the...

Who in their right mind would? It's caved in just past the entrance. Not much left today There was other stuff around but this is the only thing from the picture recognizable. On to the top, 8400' and snow! The site at the top was operating until the 1960s. From a distance it looked...

More about the tramway The town of McKay in the valley The railway to the tram

Several old mine entrances, all blocked. The top of the tram. It went about 3 miles to town. Several of the towers are still standing. Another mine site

8-16 Arco to Lost Creek We headed out of Arco planning to spend most of the day at the McKay mines. McKay is the jumping off point to a well preserved mining area just out of town. There are several old mine sites and maps available for self guided tours. So on to the tour. Not much of...

8-15 Back into another section of the Sawtooth NF. It was so dang hot we found some shade to stop and rest And play alittle Leaving the NF we decided to head north. There was more to the east we wanted to see and a sand dune rec area that we passed up. Maybe see those on a...