[pct-l] Fw: So. OR

[JoAnn]

-----Original Message----- 
From: JoAnn
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 8:55 AM
To: Nathan Miller
Subject: Re: [pct-l] So. OR

Don't know what to tell you. I was just there - no fence; no camping right
at the spring. There is a road, no longer in use, about 100 feet above the
spring. Things have just recently changed due to it now being in the Soda
Mtn. Wilderness (2009)

are we there yet

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nathan Miller
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:48 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net ; JoAnn
Subject: Re: [pct-l] So. OR

> In my brief trail report of southern
> Oregon I failed to mention that on page 71 of the OR/WA
> guide book, at elevation 5290 the spring is no longer fenced
> in. Since it is now in Soda Mtn. Wilderness, the fence has
> been taken down. Removed to a road right above the spring,
> which, if you turn left (south) on that road, there is more
> than adequate camping for numerous folks.

If you're talking about the one a few miles north of Pilot Rock--noted in
the PCT Atlas as 'Fenced Spring'--it does indeed have a fence around it.
It's a rather sizable fence, as a matter of fact.  I even had to climb over
it--gate was stuck, if I recall correctly.  There is indeed a LOT of room
for camping in its vicinity, pretty much on all sides and at a crossroads
less than a mile north.

-Nate the Trail Zombie
Newberg, OR