Where We Live: The Broughton Lumber flume

In the Columbia River Gorge, there are remnants of a unique way to get unfinished logs from one place to another. It's a piece of Northwest history in this place where we live.

[@99bx99]

When I was a kid in the 50's a buddy and I would sometimes walk that flume from Broughton's 7 miles to Willard on the 2X12 "sidewalk" that ran alongside and was attached to the flume on weekends. Then we'd hitchhike back to home in White Salmon. Lots of kids did that.

[@lisapolzel2432]

Amazing!! A wonderful part of western & American history.

[@damonsantillan2841]

I am connected to the flume so many ways. My great grandfather worked for Broughton and my grandfather worked for them too. My family lived on Chinowith road just above Drano lake. To get to the house you had to go over the flume. My aunt and uncle's poked a hole in the side of it to fill a swimming hole during the summer time. Robert Peterson is my brother in law and a good friend. "Local For Life"
#Gorge Pride

[@guaporeturns9472]

I worked at SDS for five years starting around 2000-2001. I am up Chenoweth rd often visiting my friends Hank and Kandy. Great people.

[@SRB99163]

I worked on Little Baldy USFS forest fire lookout near Willard close to the get on point of the flume. It was amazing to watch the process whenever I had a down moment from the lookout.

[@liamwinter4512]

You can see a few old parts of it from Washington's side of the river on the slope

[@user-cd4ob5ee1u]

Good job

[@ericschmuecker348]

Best thing about cutting a tree down is what you can build out of it.

[@Philip02K]

Flume rides

[@waltermarlin1730]

A saltwater above ground canal all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Huge idea.
Like a really big log flume.

[@CountlessPWNZ]

I mean, we got forests here too. Unless you wanna take a dump and send your logs over to us here in the west

[@MrSquaresville]

It was not for logs, but for kants.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Yep , cants from mill A and Willard.

[@djmips]

What is this? A logging flume for cants?

[@blackheartbev3098]

And there’s a reason logging isn’t as popular. We kinda need trees dingleberry brains.

[@CountlessPWNZ]

We need wood. Simple as that, retard.

[@blackheartbev3098]

@@CountlessPWNZ And we need oxygen a little more. Rere

[@Artentious]

We have more trees now than ever. A few years ago NASA used a satellite and special algorithms to count all the trees on earth. They expected 1 trillion, a number they trumpeted as being half what was needed to reverse "climate change." They counted 4 trillion and we never heard from that program ever again. Dingleberry brains.