The day after this ride the horses were very tired, this should have been at the bottom of this post but I don't know how to move them around.
Some of the roads up in the mountains go thru instead of around.
This is called a steam donkey, they hauled this in with a big mule team from the nearest town 14 miles away, I can't imagine how they did it when you look at the pictures below this thing sits on the hillside above the stream, it had cables attached to it and to the trees they cut down then it pulled the logs down the hill so they could be dumped into the water to be transported down stream to the St. Joe river.
The loggers would dam the stream and when the winter snows melted they would open the dam and let all the water carry the logs downstream.
It was very quiet and peaceful back in these woods, I wish we could show how far down the mountain we had to ride to get to this stream, the people who lived in the logging camps lived a rough life. The horses were not happy about going up and down these hills.
This is remains of one of the log cabins in the logging camp next to the stream.
This cabin was in a different area of the forest.
2 comments:
Wow mom, you have seen some really beautiful places! I would love to come up there some time!
wow! That place looks so cool! You found some awesome stuff to take pictures of. The poor horses... :) It's funny to see them laying around, you must have worn them out really good!
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