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Lake Ivern Trail

The Last Trail to Be Made Connecting Lake Ivern to the Rest of the Basin lakes

Trail on Middle Lake, Grass Lake, North Lake, Lake Ivern in Rogue River NF, Sky Lakes Wilderness, Cascade Range near Fort Klamath, OR

About a 2 mile forested trail with ferns and huckleberries. The trail ends at Lake Ivern and Boston Bluff. Boston Bluff overlooks the Middle Fork of the Rouge River in the valley below.

During the summer of 1968 or 69, can’t remember for sure, I worked for the U.S. Forest Service out of Butte Falls. I was on a trail crew and our job was to make a trail to a remote lake in the Seven Lakes Basin – Lake Ivern. Pack mules would bring our supplies and equipment in. Food, tents, gasoline rock drill, dynamite and misc. other tools. We would hike in and spend 10 days working then 4 days off. Our first camp was at Middle Lake. After we had cut the trail about half way to Lake Ivern we moved camp there.

The first couple of weeks there was still a lot of snow and mosquitoes. We used the snow banks for our refrigerator but as the summer progressed and the snow melted we would put a large can in one of the springs. Covered the can with a wet tarp so the evaporation would keep food cool, worked pretty well.

One night as we were sitting around the fire discussing our progress on the trail we decided that some land marks needed names. We agreed on names and on one of my days off I was at the Butte Falls station and used the Forest Service sign material and made signs. The next trip in we nailed them to trees. Jahn Spring, Bigfoot Spring, Buckley Spring, Bigfoot Spring Campground, there were some others but I can’t remember them.

A few years ago I was telling my daughters about my time building a trail for the Forest Service. Cutting trees, dynamiting the stumps and blasting rock. They were curious and wanted to know where the trail was. Looking on the internet I was elated to see Buckley Spring in trail guides and topo maps. Never considered that the names would stick, real treat.

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