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Red Lake Trail #719 LbNA #16259

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 2, 2005
Location:
City:Detroit
County:Jefferson
State:Oregon
Boxes:6
Planted by:Double Tree
Found by: brook & toby (2)
Last found:Aug 21, 2005
Status:F
Last edited:Jul 2, 2005
9,7,07 All boxes confirmed dry and happy but lonely. Needs visitors!

Red Lake Trail is located at Olallie Lake in the Olallie Lake National Scenic Area. The hike is about 8 miles long (4 miles in and back out again), and very rocky. Bring good boots. And DEET. Lots of DEET.

The trail passes numerous small lakes and ponds (mosquito breeding grounds), many of them unnamed. Find the trailhead around 1/4 mile from the store at Olallie Lake, on the main road. If you reach Camp Ten, you've gone too far. Technically you need a NW Forest Pass, since you will be on a trail. You can find a map and a great description of the trail at:
http://www.mthood.info/hikingtrails/redlake719.pdf

I notice that many of the old lake signs have been replaced with nice new ones. Generally these are the lake signs I refer to, but no guarantee. If I didn't notice one, I would have used the one I did see. In other words, the signs I used in the clues might not be the only ones...

I carved these stamps especially for the Olallie Lake area. They symbolize my love for the area and the icons that make it special to me.

Clues:

Proceed along Red Lake Trail. After a short ways, see a seasonal pond on your left. Ahead are 3 tight trees on the left, and a huge rock on the right. Where a tree meets the rock is bark, concealing the Olallie Lake box. Olallie Butte is at 35 degrees. If you reach the pond on the right, you've gone too far.

On to Top Lake. At the lake sign, look to the other side of the trail. Above the rock terrace, one log crosses over a smaller one. In the crook, covered by bark, Huckleberries grow.

At the junction, go right. (Note that on your return, this junction isn't marked well, so be sure to turn left and don't keep going straight).

At the next junction, go toward Sheep Lake.

At the next junction, follow the sign to Red Lake/Averill Lake.

At Fork Lake, find the 2nd sign. The first is split up. On the other side of the trail you will see scattered rocks. Go beyond them to a fallen tree. Under rocks at its base is a Pack I left behind.

I didn't find a sign identifying Sheep Lake, so after admiring it, pass it by, no box. Where the trail splits 3 ways, go right.

At Wall Lake, look for the sign. Look to the other side of the trail. Cross the rotting log to stand next to twins. Head up hill at 165 degrees for 15 steps. To your left 6 steps is a spindly 3' pine tree waving at you, trying to get your attention. A pile of rocks hides my Canoe.

Back at lake side, you can see Potatoe Butte at 330 degrees and Olallie Butte at 45.

At the Averill Lake sign (the one in front of the camp area with Double Peaks in the background), look to the other side of the trail. There is a 6' snag at 345 degrees. Go to it. At 0 degrees go 13 paces to the base of a downed tree. Go 4 more paces to a small downed tree that crosses it. In the rocky crook is a Camprobber.

At the Red Lake sign (watch carefully, it faces the other direction), look to the other side of the trail. You can see a downed tree and roots sticking up. On the backside a Squirrel is hiding under the rocks.

You can see just the tip of Mt. Jefferson at Red Lake.

Good luck!!