A rumor had be circulating that Mike Williams was going to reopen the line to Jaype. Our sources had
confirmed work crews had been heading up the grade to repair bridge 5 above Konkolville. Jim and I
wanted to see if this was true. Heading up the grade we found that, indeed, the bridge had been repaired.
This raised our spirits with the hope that the washouts were also being addressed. At the washout at
MP 12, where we once had to pull our bikes across the hanging rails by rope, the rails had been removed and a road dozed around the washout. A simple coffer dam of rock had been built to divert the stream.
It was an easy portage around the washout, and we continued up the canyon. The right-of-way had been sprayed and the and small trees between the rails brushcut. After passing the quarry at MP 11 the weed spraying had stopped, although it was evident equipment had been run further up the canyon. At bridge 11.8 there was a hugh log jam against the bridge. The bridge had been offset slightly, underpinnings knocked out and washed away, and the abutment on the east end destroyed.
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This high bank washout is developing between Jaype and the upper stream washout at MP 15.
This photo taken in August 2012.
4th Sub - May 2013
Bridge 5.
The washed out concrete pier
was left in the stream
and two steel girders were placed
between the remaining piers
spanning the gap.
The ties were replaced over the
steel section and it appears they
will be replaced on the entire bridge.
Old timbers remain in the channel
and the depression in the foreground must be filled to keep the high water from washing out the
pier which is obstructed by the
pine tree at right.
Washout at MP 10 is hardly recognizable
since we last saw it in 2008.
The dozed road has removed all the
vegetation on the bank.
The meager rock coffer dam
can be seen on the right.
The log jam at bridge 11.8.
Many of the timber pilings will need
to be replaced and
the abutment at the east end rebuilt.
