11/4/2023 0 Comments Lake merwin campers hideaway![]() We signed the papers on April 27th of this year. We sold the property using the real estate people that work for the hideaway. If you dig down far enough, in some places, you still can find ash and today the ash remains in the outer edges of our atmosphere.Customer: Hello, we owned some property at Lake Merwin campers hideaway in Washington state. The Red Zone was lifted and campers returned to the Hideaway to find several inches of ash and cedar shake roofs ruined and in need of replacement. A steady stream of cars left the Hideaway down Columbia Tie Road, carrying as much water as they could to rinse windows off so that they could see. Emergency personnel went door to door in camp and asked all members to evacuate the Hideaway and suddenly the Hideaway was in the Red Zone of Mount St. During second eruption, the ash moved to the south. Because the mountain blew out to the North there was no sound to the South. ![]() Hurrying to their decks or to a vantage point in camp, they stood and watched the mountain erupt. Helens erupted, and LMCH members sat in their trailers, drinking their coffee and watching their TV’s or listening to their radios only to hear that the mountain had blown. The deer hunkered down because something was amiss. Suddenly all the animals were quite, no birds chirping, no chipmunks or squirrels barking. On Sunday, May 18 th, 1980, the Hideaway woke up to a sleepy sunny morning. The fire destroyed 12 billion board feet and lasted 36 hours and traveled 30 miles. Saint Helens were destroyed, encompassing Cowlitz, Clark and Skamania Counties. ![]() Forests and farmlands from the Columbia River to Mt. Saint Helens National Monument and continues to be the largest fire in Washington State history. The fire destroyed 239,000 acres, twice the size of the entire Mt. In 1902 there was a massive forest fire in the Yacolt area. Cooper Where Are You party during Thanksgiving week. Who knows, but every year in Ariel, directly across the lake from the Hideaway you too can join in a D.B. Cooper jumped resembles the FBI sketches and still lives among us today. Yet another story states that a local recluse who showed up about the time D.B. Another story stated that an overcoat and footprints were found coming out of the lake. It was rumored that there was a white area in the lake that was thought to be a parachute so the lake was drained but nothing was found. A small submersible was launched and nothing was found, however, legends say different. ![]() The official FBI stand is that, after an exhaustive search, there was no trace of D.B. The FBI ran computer models and pinpointed his landing area in the middle of Lake Merwin. Cooper jumped from Boeing 727, at 10,000 feet going 170 miles per hour with 2 parachutes and 200,000 dollars and he has never been heard from again. For the whole story of life in the Lake Merwin Valley and the “Water Babies”, go to. The arrowheads from these Indians still surface every now and then. If you travel east from Marble Creek about two miles you will reach Rocky Point where the local Indians used to camp and make arrowheads from the multi-colored rocks. About an 8 th of a mile east is where an old cemetery had been and at Marble Creek you may see the old road which had been built above the Marble Creek School where many of the valley children attended school. When the lake is lowered for repairs the old road that went into the valley can be seen from Woodland City. It is said, to this day, that the locust trees still stand at the bottom of the lake. First homes were flooded and then the locust trees in bloom disappeared. The old growth timber was cut down in the valley and in 1950 the gates of the dam closed and the river began to rise. In 1929 the dam broke ground in Shirt-Tail Canyon. As the cities grew families put their farms on the market and the Northwestern Electric Company slowly bought the farms. The valley was settled as early as 1870 and generations of people raised their families there. The bottom of Lake Merwin was once fertile farm land, with pear orchards and old growth timber.
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