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Timber Cruiser Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 | TRs | Pics Location: Cosi |
Found this postcard while searching through a stamp collection I inherited for info on the "Mining in King Co." thread.
The caption reads "Goat Lake near Big Four Inn". However the lake is at least 12 miles from the Inn.
The card was sent on Sept. 12th, 1925 from Everett to his future wife who was in Cashmere at the time.
Dear Alice,
Am sending you a picture of the place where we have planned to go camping. Remember? We are taking the 5:00 PM car from Hartford today for Monte Cristo from where we will hike to Index. Better join us.
Floyd
From the pictures I've seen, they liked to ride the Everett to Monte Cristo train and explore the area. Not sure how they hooked up for this outing!
GoatLake1923
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
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JimK Member
Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 5606 | TRs | Pics Location: Ballard |
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Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:27 pm
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Very nice. Interesting perspective from high above the current trail. Are there perhaps other postcards you can show us?
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Timber Cruiser Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 | TRs | Pics Location: Cosi |
I couldn't find any similar postcards in my collection but I found photos from the same studio (Juleen Studio in Everett) in the UW archives.
UW Archives - Juleen Collection
Great pictures of Big Four Inn, Monte Cristo, and some of the surrounding lakes, etc.
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
"Logging encourages the maintenance of foilage by providing economic alternatives to development."
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 2036 | TRs | Pics
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Newt Short Timer
Joined: 21 Dec 2001 Posts: 3176 | TRs | Pics Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:26 pm
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Cool find. What's it got for a stamp? What you gonna do with the collection?
hmmmm? uh?
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It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:31 pm
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Awesome shots, thanks for the link. I already had a similar link in my favorites, the one for King County snapshots. I just changed it to the library's homepage, so I can browse all the collections easily.
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10958 | TRs | Pics Location: Going to Tukwila |
I like this one.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
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Wazzuhiker Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 226 | TRs | Pics Location: Pullman/Monroe |
It always suprises me how little the water level fluctuates at these mountain lakes even after almost a hundred years
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Tue May 11, 2004 7:35 pm
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Nice link Dayhike Mike
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10958 | TRs | Pics Location: Going to Tukwila |
Yep. Fond memories of my trip to Twin Lakes last year...
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
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Wazzuhiker Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 226 | TRs | Pics Location: Pullman/Monroe |
Has anyone tried to go from Twin Lakes down Red gulch into Index
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
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Echo not a voice
Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 244 | TRs | Pics Location: Bouncing around |
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Fri May 14, 2004 8:45 pm
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,
by slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
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Wazzuhiker Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 226 | TRs | Pics Location: Pullman/Monroe |
What do you mean they probably didnt make it, I have heard it is hard but I know people have done it.
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
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Wazzuhiker Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 226 | TRs | Pics Location: Pullman/Monroe |
I guess it is more from Silver Lake but if you follow Red Gulch down you hit Silver creek which intersects the Skykomish right at Skyco 3
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians..," Ted Nugent
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Scrooge Famous Grouse
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 6966 | TRs | Pics Location: wishful thinking |
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Mon May 17, 2004 7:57 am
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Cameron - The problem seems to be your inclusion of Red Gulch in the equation. Red Gulch does come down the north wall of the Silver Creek drainage, but it starts on the west side of Silvertip Peak. Getting there from Silver Lake would be difficult ...... and useless.
There's a trail that runs from Poodledog Pass down Silver Creek all the way to the Skykomish. It's not maintained between Mineral City and the pass, but it's used fairly frequently and it's been reported on by several members of this forum. Those may well be the successes you've heard about.
Getting down from Twin Lakes is something else again. Twin Lakes is not connected to Silver Creek. It's the source of the West Fork of Troublesome Creek. A number of us have been exploring the possibilities of that route for quite a while (Lopper and Newt have been probing it for 30 or 35 years!) but so far we don't know anyone who has made it.
You might try running a search on "Troublesome Creek" here on the forum. It's an intriguing area and it's gotten quite a lot of attention.
But it needs more because we still haven't made the connection.
Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
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