07-Jul-2022 -- While driving from Klamath Falls to Medford, I made a detour to try to visit this ‘forgotten’ Degree Confluence Point, last visited more than 20 years ago! I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about visiting this point, as it appeared to be one of my least favorite DCP ‘archetypes’: a very steep forested hillside. From satellite imagery, it seemed that - as the Withers did in 2001 - I would need to descend 400 feet in elevation down a very steep hillside, then climb back up afterwards. However, satellite imagery suggested that the hillside might have been logged and replanted since the Withers’ visit, which might make the descending/climbing easier.

But first, I wanted to try another approach. If I could follow roads from the South leading to the bottom of the hill - along Coffee Creek to a site named “Texas Gulch” - then I would have less climbing/descending to do: only about 200 feet, instead of 400 feet. But alas, as I got to Coffee Creek, I ran into a locked “private property” gate - 2.24 miles from the point.

So instead I opted for the traditional approach: Dropping down the hillside from the West. After a long detour on a paved road - through the small town of Day’s Creek, I ended up on a series of very steep, narrow gravel/dirt logging roads, approaching the point from the West. At one point, I encountered a logging truck coming the other way, and was only barely able to give it enough space for it to pass. (If I attempt this point again, I might do so on a Sunday or public holiday, to reduce the likelihood of encountering logging trucks.)

Unfortunately, 1.36 miles (as the crow flies; probably more than twice this distance in practice) from the point, I ran into a locked gate. A sign nearby noted that the area would still be open to non-motorized use at a ‘fire level’ below 2. I called the phone number on the sign (remarkably, I still had cell phone reception), and the recording noted that the current ‘fire level’ was 1. So I could have continued on my mountain bike along the logging roads to reach the hillside West of the point - which might have brought me close enough for a successful visit. In hindsight I probably should have done this, but it was getting late in the day, so I decided to log this as an incomplete visit.