[pct-l] Oregon Sec B update

[Tortoise]

If I recall correctly from my visit to Craters of the Moon National 
Monument last summer, when the  basalt is first broken it is the rusty 
red color you see and then it eventually changes to the dark brown one 
usually sees. I don't recall the chemical process though. So all the red 
cinders are probably from a local source, maybe just from busting the 
trail through.

Sounds like a great trip.  I hope to get up there this summer.


Tortoise

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Deems wrote:
> . . . . The 1970s trail around 
> Brown Mtn is one of the PCT's great trail building achievements. How they 
> built the trail through the miles of basalt lavafields and carried in the 
> red cinders to cover it kept me wondering for miles as I hiked along the red 
> carpet. 
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