PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness — Brooks Cabin, Tower Ridge Road, Todd Cemetery, Terrill Ridge Trail

I should have known better than to venture to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness with lowered expectations.

The mission for this drive for pleasure across the forested razorback called Tower Ridge Road was to discover if the Road Closed Ahead sign just past the Blackwell Horse Camp was for real. I had minimal presumptions for sun, color, or photography.

The road was open to the Terrill Ridge Trailhead, and luminescent yellow daffodil blooms on the roadside provided the first hints of the color and light to come in a round-trip drive to Terrill, with stops at the Brooks Cabin and pioneer Todd Cemetery. Mountain bikers, backpackers, a hammock-loving bookworm — even a couple pedestrians — had the road, trails, and parking lots occupied.

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PROJECT: Back to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: A Half Century Later

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