Tag: grade valley
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Station to Station No. 6: Thorn Meadow Guard Station
Sometimes, I wish this building would just get bulldozed, or finally go up in smoke. Better that than suffer the ignoble crawl toward decrepitude to which the clowns subject it. Thorn Meadow Guard Station, 1950s. Image courtesy LPNF Archives. But anyway. Thorn Meadow was built (according to official USFS literature) in 1907, earlier than those…
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Lookout! Thorn Point, Redux
After a fine day of bouldering and general forest revelry atop Pine Mountain with Troop 201, the uber-hund and I parted ways with the lady mountaineers and headed into Grade Valley.