This trail is great in the winter as well. While ascending the hillside, before you get to the first bridge, there is invariably deer by the dozens that go charging through the snow all above you.
As for the foundation being a hotel, I have heard that it was more of a dormitory/office for the various failed mining projects from 1900 to the 1940s. The mine, which had been long closed, was reexamined during World War II as a potential supply of scarce copper. In the end, the shafts produced no more than a few pounds, worth less than $100.
Behind the foundation and along the lower portion of the trail is an amazingly large rhododendron cluster, definitely worth seeing in the springtime. A little ways past the foundation, once you start up the hill, there are some stone posts 100yds to the right, which allegedly once supported a rudimentary rail system for transporting ore to the milling facility close to the road.
This was the first significant trail that I ever hiked.
MTN Trader - Oct 28, 2006 3:43 am - Hasn't voted
Copper Mine reduxThis trail is great in the winter as well. While ascending the hillside, before you get to the first bridge, there is invariably deer by the dozens that go charging through the snow all above you.
As for the foundation being a hotel, I have heard that it was more of a dormitory/office for the various failed mining projects from 1900 to the 1940s. The mine, which had been long closed, was reexamined during World War II as a potential supply of scarce copper. In the end, the shafts produced no more than a few pounds, worth less than $100.
Behind the foundation and along the lower portion of the trail is an amazingly large rhododendron cluster, definitely worth seeing in the springtime. A little ways past the foundation, once you start up the hill, there are some stone posts 100yds to the right, which allegedly once supported a rudimentary rail system for transporting ore to the milling facility close to the road.
This was the first significant trail that I ever hiked.