This is a somewhat non-historical post. Blame it on Covid Cabin Fever. Amedee Canyon, located in the Amedee Mountains, is about halfway between Amedee and Wendel, near the archeological site known as Tommy Tucker Cave.

It was a late winter, many moons ago, that I hiked it. It should be noted, it is quite the hike to the entrance of the canyon. Before long inside the canyon, it is no longer a hike, more like a rock climbing expedition. Near the top of the canyon are interesting caves—one of which had ice.

The other reward for your efforts is the view from up high overlooking Honey Lake.

Tim

When conducting research, one can easily get sidetracked, while searching for a particular item, your eye catches something of interest. This happen to me recently while working on the post about Hobo Wells Hydroponics. On the same page the Sacramento Bee of August 16, 1977 had an article about that topic, there was a report about a forest fire on the Salmon River in Siskiyou County. The Bee Correspondent Marjie Lambert interviewed some of the residents there, which they chimed in the forest service was not doing well in handling fires. Sound familiar? Herewith is an excerpt on that topic.

”Les and Johnny Bennett and their friend, Vince Elliott, agree that fires are handled wrong these days. ‘All the Indians and miners and cattlemen used to do regular burns every year,” said Vince. ‘That kept everything nice and green. That way there wouldn’t be big forest fires.

”Then the U.S. Forest Service put a stop to the controlled burns. The three men nodded their heads, saying they had it coming.

”’Now when one of these things starts it wont stop until it burns itself out or maybe in September the rains will come,’ said Les.”

Tim

Since this is the last day of 2020, which usually many folks reflect on the year that is very memorable to many. Personally, I have a special fondness for Gold Run. This, of course, had to deal with Frank Satica, who was an early instigator on my path to research the region’s history. For some the photographs might be bittersweet with the devastation by this year’s Sheep Fire, that the scars will be there for a long time.

Tim