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Diane Putnam

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Posted: 06 Aug 2017

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Mountain trail

Mountain trail
I don't know what the road is for. There was never any timber on this dry hill. The trail was there 50 years ago when I first left town. I have never seen any vehicles on it. I can hear coyotes once in awhile and I think they live in those rocky outcrops.

I am standing a ways up the foot of the mountain and, no, I had no desire to hike up there!

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 Diane Putnam
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"The majority of Hogback is privately owned, but open to hikers. Fence tampering and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use is strictly prohibited..." I think that's an FCC microwave antenna at the top. It happens that my brother owns some acreage on the other side, but I've no idea why and I've never been there. It is steeper than it looks in photos.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogback_Mountain_(Klamath_County,_Oregon)
8 years ago.
 Gudrun
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It looks a great place! Coyotes and mountain lions would probably leave your alone during daylight.
8 years ago.
 Pano ☼ Rapi ♫✯♫
Pano ☼ Rapi ♫✯♫ club
I like ** this serie describing an unknown part of the world, which I thougt to know from adventure films about the Wild West.
:-)
8 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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Yes, especially coyotes. Mtn lions can and do attack in the daytime, but that is a very rare event. When it happens, there is a lot of publicity about it, so it seems more dangerous than it is.

However, when I lived in the woods next to my son & family, there were many sightings of a large male in yards near us. This went on for about 3 years. A trapper working for the state tried to live-trap it for relocation, but no success. On the third year, it was seen on a hill behind the school watching kids on the playground!!! Then it was seen in our yard twice and growled at my son one night when he went out for firewood. (Nate said he almost peed his pants!) Another night it was on the back deck. The trapper was given permission by the state to turn into a hunter and within 24 hrs. had shot the lion on a rocky hillside near us. We had very mixed feelings about it, because that is such a beautiful animal, but by this time it was deemed a danger to the community - especially because of the school incident!

And, then there were the bears! And, last year, the new pack of wolves in the same area after they were reintroduced in a neighboring state. ;-o
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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Rapi, this area looks very much like old western movies. Most of it looks like the above landscape, but there are also large areas of tall pine trees - called ponderosa pines, by the way. ;-b
8 years ago.

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