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To: E. Charters who wrote (41915)	6/5/2007 7:54:36 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78421

Have you ever wandered up into the Tulameen? It's an interesting place, full of half-crazed draft dodgers who have spent waaaaay too much time in the bush, and lots of old buildings from the various mining booms that have passed through. It had a feeling unlike anywhere else I have been in BC. LC

To: E. Charters who wrote (41915)	6/6/2007 2:41:27 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78421

The Cascades aren't so much an extension of the BC coast range [different atlas now], but a pattern of their own, from the Tulameen area yes, to around Mt Shasta, quite a straight line almost north-south ... so i take that back There is mineralisation, sure ... joining with the Tulameen is the Similkameen, which runs past what were the Hedley and Mascot mines years ago, quite rich and way up a mountain from the town and river, half a mile elevation difference and close to straight up ... the man who installed the skylines for the aerial tramway when the Hedley-Mascot [one company took over the other] started up about 1930 just turned 100 a month or so ago, he's a famous character in a place i used to live, was foreman for that mine for years, until the war ... his house there was perched on the side of the mountain like everything else, and one morning just after getting married he and his wife got up early, just made it to the kitchen, and a rock the size of a truck took out the bedroom, there was an avalanche/rockslide, one of many ... he also invented the sidewinder boomboat, the original one that used an outboard motor, helped develop many other things in the logging equipment line, made Madills a lot of money ... he still drives, one of the oldest drivers in the province, says it's easier because they make vehicles better now than his first one, a 1917 Ford model T Hedley is on the southern route to the Okanagan, you can look up and see that the only flat ground those people knew was in the mine itself [think it was mostly adit, went into the mountain a long ways], or down in the town on their day off bryansmith.ca mascotmine.com The 'Mascot' part of the name Giant Mascot, which was one of the predecessor companies to cch.to, and my first stock, probably came from the Mascot mine, but i've never known the exact connection ... asked this fellow years ago, he didn't know, left there when the war came

To: E. Charters who wrote (41915)	6/6/2007 2:59:30 AM
From: roto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78421

EC in Washington State, the North Cascades has a lot of interest to a lot of different groups. I spent 30 years traipsing out & about the environs, did a little technical stuff with the Seattle/ Everett Mountaineers too...the place is stunningly gorgeous. the thing is if you view any map, just about the whole of it is protected one way or another, as there is the North Cascades NP (American Alps) terragalleria.com & a few large wilderness areas entwining the Cascade spine from the Canadian border all the way to I-90. there are thousands of trails probably just about all limited to foot/ horse traffic. major drainages exist every dozen- 20 miles or so & with all the feeder streams, the salmon issue is paramount. Most of my effort involved the Glacier Peak Wilderness livingwilderness.com if people would see this as I have (very few people) it most certainly qualifies for park status (have spent time at Miners Ridge/ Image Lake <just west of Holden, a religious camp> & can say it was ok but there are quite a few more beautiful places). Mazama, fairly affluent, is just east of the Pasayten Wilderness & not far from Wintrop...a town with a western motif. if you recall a scene from the movie 'Deer Hunter' the red deer hunt was filmed up by Mt Baker, just west of the park boundary. I highly doubt any mines will be permitted anywhere in the area much less discussed...it won't happen. loach