Green Creek Valley and Mystery Cables

[Pilchuck71]

Went to explore Green Creek Valley last weekend and look at Berdinkas Mythic Wall.

After gaining access into the valley and starting to traverse toward the Mythic Wall I came across three cables running from the valley wall down towards the creek bed.

Now, I am curious as to what the cables are there for as I saw no real evidence of tailings at the site and there is no real road or trail to the point in the creek.

I scrambled up a way to investigate but got sidetracked and never found the terminus at either end.

Does anyone know about these?

Darin? Did you notice them?

Anyone?

[G-spotter]

They are old grapple cables from logging maybe?

[Pilchuck71]

No roads......creek seems to small to float logs and the side of the valley where the cables are is 99% talus.

This is a good mystery.

[dberdinka]

They're from the "Ribbon Mine" which apparently was in operation until 1956. They mined for chromite. Plug the following coordinates into Google Maps

 

48°42'55"N , 121°57'15"W

 

Little bit more data here.

 

http://www.mindat.org/loc-18134.html

 

Considering how wild that valley feels it's hard to believe all that stuff is in there. At one point there must have been a pretty serious trail or road going in there. Evidently 50 years of plant growth can cover up just about anything.

 

I found an outcropping of chromite on the ridgeline above Wiseman Lake. Metal ore is heavy!

[Pilchuck71]

Wow! No kidding.

That was the odd thing is that the valley does have an incredibly wild feel to it and then to find that as the only sign of people was strange.

I saw not even the scrap of a balloon in that area. Pretty freaking nice.

Thanks for the info Darin, that is very interesting.