Bald Mountain Road
Up until 1911 the old wagon road, which years ago was known as the Skookum Gulch Road, left Camp creek at the Madero Ranch and went north and a little east up the hills to Cold Spring Flat and straight across the Flat to the Cold Spring Ranch. From the ranch the road went up by Cook's Camp and on to what is now called White's Camp which was at that time the end of the road.
In 1911 when the California and Oregon Power Company built their power line number three over the mountain they extended the road on up Skookum Gulch to the head of the Gulch and to a place
now known as Cabin Sixty Nine.
In 1927 the Power Company built their power line number nineteen and at that time they changed the road on Cold Springs Flat and bypassed the Cold Spring Ranch by about one half mile by going to the west of the ranch. At the same time the Company continued the road from Cabin Sixty Nine on over the mountain to Highway 66 at Green Springs Summit.
The rota has been called the Bald Mountain Road which I think is the proper name for it. However, the maps in recent years have had Bald Mountain mark ed as Soda Mountain so the road is being called the Soda Mountain Road a great deal now-a-days.
Most of the new road built in 1927 follows closely to the old horse trail that was known for many years as the Bald Mountain Trail.
Oregon topo maps do show Soda Mountain and Soda Mountain Road. Cabin 69 is on the maps, too.
George Wright descriptions