An easy trip for visitors to the Coos Bay area. Directions:

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0.0    From US-101, take Coos - Sumner Lane East

5.0     Continue through Sumner as name changes to Fairview-Sumner Lane

7.3     Continue left at Tee on Fairview-Sumner Lane

7.7     Left at fork onto paved USFS road 26-12-4.2

8.7     Stay on paved road

9.1     Stay on paved road

10.1    Right at fork onto gravel road

10.2    Right at fork onto USFS 26-12-35.1

11.1    Right at intersection onto unmarked road

11.3    Park near microwave site on your left.  Continue on foot.

11.6    Keep right at fork

11.8    Keep right at fork

12.1    Follow GPS off road to left to coordinates.

An easy site to reach, but you need handheld gps to find it.  Heavily timbered with towering Ponderosa pine.

Caution:  Active logging in the area.

No mast needed, plenty of supports available by tossing a tennis ball over limbs. Don’t confuse this Blue Ridge with the W7O/NC-037 Blue Ridge near Tillamook.

Andrew Ellis NO6E