By Nels A. Jr.
1954: Vashon Island, Washington
Startin’ on the Farm to Market Road from the 1951 Washington license plate stuck on an ol’ pole, near the Eyot farmstead, travel south (77/4) towards the Thorsen Place (78/5).
Dodge Old Man Thorsen’s dogs over to Bank (79/2), then east towards Center. Near the pond (79/9), look for the trapper’s trail going north and then west. Tie up your pony here because the trail gets too narrow.
From the trailhead, it’ll be 266 paces to our old camp site in the grove. Go about 400 paces to the corduroy bridge and 200 more paces downhill to a miraculous stand of tall firs. Count slowly from here and look for the salal trail north to the Chilcat village. No more counting. At each wye, always take the rightward trail to the old trappers shack.
You’ll need to sneak up quietly as not to arouse the tribe nearby. Watch out for Indian sentries.
Dodge Old Man Thorsen’s dogs over to Bank (79/2), then east towards Center. Near the pond (79/9), look for the trapper’s trail going north and then west. Tie up your pony here because the trail gets too narrow.
From the trailhead, it’ll be 266 paces to our old camp site in the grove. Go about 400 paces to the corduroy bridge and 200 more paces downhill to a miraculous stand of tall firs. Count slowly from here and look for the salal trail north to the Chilcat village. No more counting. At each wye, always take the rightward trail to the old trappers shack.
You’ll need to sneak up quietly as not to arouse the tribe nearby. Watch out for Indian sentries.
Historian Rachel Bard might recall the right way.
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COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't belive that the trappers got that close to the indians! Oh, and they're "closed". Idians all seemed friendly.
Team Jesse and party next made a daring attempt to gather more info at the "floater" and check out points unknown "upstream". A near casualty accurred when the Taitavoskovitch dog jumped ship and numerous small wounds were inflicted upon all as the interpid team forged upriver through low-hanging jungle foliage! Eventually the team had to abort, could Barinov really have placed an indicator in such an inhospitable location? If so we'll have to take our machetes next time!
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