This Dirt Road Is the Most Likely Candidate for The Narrator’s Logging Road.
“The logging road is sandy, so I keep in low gear with feet out to prevent a spill. We see side roads off the main logging road but I stay on the main one until after about a mile we come to some bulldozers. That means they’re still logging here. We turn back and head up one of the side roads. After about half a mile we come to a tree fallen across the road. That’s good. That means this road has been abandoned.“(Cont.Next)
First Logging Road Turnoff, Lochsa River Canyon, ID. This was the first available turnoff I found. It was a right turn and was pretty well at the bottom of the steep grade from Lolo Pass. I vaguely remember that the stream was close to the road at left. The highway down was a bulldozed grade on an exceedingly steep mountainside, hence no practical places for a logging road. Two different logging roads diverged from here agreeing with “side roads.“
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(Photo = 110-1049z.5 ...... ZMM Page = 243 ...... WayPt = 265i2. Photo at 265w 3842ft)