Nomad Willy
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Ken E,
We've overnighted at Butedale several times in the last ten years and not had a problem. Smaller boats though. 25 and 30'. Dangerous? You bet! The whole place is dangerous.
Hate to see it become some kind of a resort. I like ruins better than resorts and marinas. Too many people now. I was there in the 70's w my first wife. We hiked up the flume to the lake and we showered for a long time. With free water and heat why not.
At that time the flume and generator were in good working order. That would have been the time to up-grade the place. The fishermen now use the little cove so of the cannery to spend the night. Several raft up.
However other places w a better harbor and without many many tons of debris to remove would make a better choice for a pleasure boaters resting stop. And if development was done lots of ecological work would need to be done. While we were living on Prince of Wales Is. an old mine was cleaned up. Big money.
Two pics of Butedale as of about three years ago and one of fishermen in the small cove.
We've overnighted at Butedale several times in the last ten years and not had a problem. Smaller boats though. 25 and 30'. Dangerous? You bet! The whole place is dangerous.
Hate to see it become some kind of a resort. I like ruins better than resorts and marinas. Too many people now. I was there in the 70's w my first wife. We hiked up the flume to the lake and we showered for a long time. With free water and heat why not.
At that time the flume and generator were in good working order. That would have been the time to up-grade the place. The fishermen now use the little cove so of the cannery to spend the night. Several raft up.
However other places w a better harbor and without many many tons of debris to remove would make a better choice for a pleasure boaters resting stop. And if development was done lots of ecological work would need to be done. While we were living on Prince of Wales Is. an old mine was cleaned up. Big money.
Two pics of Butedale as of about three years ago and one of fishermen in the small cove.
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