Descending Into The Hell Hole Of Oregon’s Central Cascades (1995)

[@bphenry]

1:15 - "...the few who know where this is."

[@Guydude8888]

Secret no more,a bunch of astronauts

[@erikk77]

43° 53' 42.91 N -122° 21' 14.63 W

[@michaelchase418]

I don't care if there's lat/long. It took me a year and a half to find it. 6 trips in that time.

[@JLCrusin]

Found it about 20 years ago after seeing an old map in the Register Guard and matching up contour lines to a 1955 topo map of the N. Fork. The ferns on the north wall are beautiful.

[@myronwendell7196]

All joking aside. I was born & raised in these forests of the great Pacific Northwest. You have to be born & grow up here to truly know these mountains & forests. And yes you do have to be very careful in & on them. Every day was a new adventure, and some thing discovered all the time. We never felt like we were in any danger. I will never give up those memories for any thing. I'm 68 now, and I will all ways have them to look back on....

[@jubi400]

I'm a local, I live not far from Oakridge and I do a lot of forest exploring. I've been here, but not down into it. It's pretty scary being up on the edge of it. Love My Oregon!!

[@whiskeymonk4085]

How do you feel about men competing in women's sports? The local Men want to know.

[@CalvinHodgson]

Wow, the 90s safety gear. What a hell of a time to be alive.

[@jordanparker882]

Haha ikr just a rope and some gloves lol.

[@paulbains9152]

The Cascade holes closer to Port Orford , have wind coming out of them , and you can smell salt water .

[@rogerrtewwr4723]

so how much has this thing moved by now? it's been 25 years

[@jordanparker882]

A lot. It’s a lot deeper now.

[@18Bees]

AH THE GOOD OLD DAYS....NO HARNESS...JUST GOOD OL' ROPE. 😂

[@jonathannagel7427]

Body belayyyyyyyy 😍

[@thewinesmith]

@@18Bees my thoughts at first. But having been back from a recent trip to visit friends and family up there, a lot of oregon people know how to climb. A lot of loggers that are well experienced walking up and down stuff like this

[@18Bees]

@@thewinesmith brave people.

[@stevenmcguinness4751]

That footage is sharp for 1995 videotape

[@insolentstickleback3266]

You wouldn't find me in that death trap, thanks for sharing though!

[@davelambardo6464]

Ah yes I remember the days when old school forest service employees,loggers,and hunters were the only ones who knew "secret" spots in the oregon cascades! Had to know mountains and read a map/compass. Now with Google earth and GPS social media ,they are all but gone! I grew up visiting a trail system about 30miles east of this spot in the video on the edge of a rugged wilderness. We used to spend 2 or more weeks in there. See 1 or 2 other people. Now it's tough to find a parking spot at the trail head..

[@mohin8256]

How do you get to hell hole oregon?

[@davelambardo6464]

@@mohin8256 well... best way is to get on interstate 5 and drive to Portland ! Sorry, had too! The cordinates are in vid! It's south east of Oakridge.

[@mohin8256]

@@davelambardo6464 hahaha

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

@@davelambardo6464 hahaha just had to say I LOVE your sense of humor and reality! thank you!

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

There are still very remote secrets in Oregon, but I am with you on this. Those secret places deserve to be earned. These days there are people seeking attention who would love to expose the secret gems to the masses. They rarely ever consider what it does to those places.

[@shawnzimmerman5353]

I like this, I like hearing of anything back home.

[@davidcarroll965]

Love this video ! I never knew of these flows south eaat of Portland. I had been in Apea Caves on the southern side of Mt St Helen's quite a few times from 1974 and 2000. Dad first took me there in 1974 with his brother in law and my cousin who had 3 sisters. 1st few trips there even younger kids went up the lava tube towards the Mt with a rise of 400 feet in a mile and a half to the nature made hole to climb a steep but built as tank ramps for getting on low boy trailers. People who have lived on east or west coast would think the ground on down to parking area is just course sand. Nope it's huge rocks that have been pulverized going straight up thousands of feet to have to crash to earth hitting boulders going up !

[@TonaldDrump686]

They left out the good stuff. You must go under some huge boulders and over some others while descending. Lovely place for sure. In my opinion, this site is less dangerous than many other places in Oregon.

[@tonymarselle8812]

???

[@Jen-lc5yc]

My husband worked for Search and Rescue in this area. He would pull people out of the Cascades who had all sorts of mishaps on their hiking/climbing adventures. People- don't do things that will result in your rescue mission.

[@adoxartist1258]

Wow! That voice! 😍

[@Boo-pz7li]

If they fall it's their own fault for using no care at all or any safety gear, and what the hell is that rope from? An old sailing ship?

[@daba27]

Yeah. It is. And that better stay legal.

[@LizCalifia]

😂😂😂

[@clambroth1923]

While nylon rope has been around for a long time that film is/was from 1995 - 25 years ago. Anything from 25 years ago, from equipment, to film quality, to narration can seem very dated. On that note, that slow talking narrator was hard to sit through - slooooow and precise. He turned a three minute video into a 7 minute video. Surprisingly, if you play it at faster speed 1.25 it sounds about normal (almost listenable).

[@JdotAdotH]

It’s been passed from generation to generation for 11,000 years. It was made in Atlantis.

[@christopherbabayaga6136]

@@JdotAdotH lol

[@jsmcguireIII]

As an experienced caver and ex-USFS, this is a really bad example of an official "exploration". No way USFS would allow such a half-assed field activity today.

[@davelambardo6464]

True,but I can't remember last time I seen an actual usfs employee that should be handling a chainsaw felling timber either! Lot different than back when I grew up in mid 80s. I tell my kids when we see these forest service people out and about how they used to know how to work. Skilled woodsmen back then in many cases

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

@@davelambardo6464 and now most of them are absolutely worthless. They hire by quota. Most of them are clueless urbanites.

[@davelambardo6464]

@@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists That is an unfortunate fact! And is highlighted by the lack of desire to protect these forest! Not with political red tape but with tough men who have a stake in the outcome of forest management usually weilding bull dozers and chainsaws. The infiltration of such agencies has taken a real toll on every body out west.

[@rogerrtewwr4723]

1:13 among few that know the whereabouts. .... as they show the exact location?

[@mariannesouza8326]

😂👍🏼

[@amandawilcox9638]

Stunning, plus great videography. Is that Weston below in the distance?

[@himssendol6512]

The *HELL HOLE* drinking game. I can’t even count how many there were.

[@77thTrombone]

The dirt at the top is so dry & loose, it seems like it's never seen rain.

[@jeffalbillar7625]

That's funny, because Oregon is known for raining alot

[@77thTrombone]

Jeff Albillar isn't it, though? I wondered, even if this was located in some arid patch that got no rain, it must certainly get snow. I dunno.... 🤔

[@jeffalbillar7625]

@@77thTrombone i believe that Oregon is part of a rain forest. I know that parts of Washington are rain forest

[@kylechase2657]

The guy in the pink shirt is Paul Rudd's long lost Oregonian doppelganger lol

[@DantesTimeshare]

He even sounds like Paul Rudd when he talks haha!

[@MattCookOregon]

Nice old video! I just did a video here recently.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

There is a place I call Thermometer Gorge that is also remote. Imagine this gorge with a smooth rounded bottom to it. I will leave it for explorers to find.

[@nicholaspiscitelli7685]

The Earth has been doing its thing for millions of years, These guys are gonna figure it all out.

[@robs9574]

There’s another crack roughly 7 miles SW of there that’s at least that deep.

[@skyybluu3118]

Great video thank you 👍🏻

[@diannemc4840]

That’s awesome.

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Raised a city-boy, my National Guard unit was tasked with forest-fire 'mop-up' east of Oakridge thirty years ago. I gained an enormous respect for professional foresters.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

And you STILL chose to live in the city?

[@dustinhaus1165]

Thats the area I learned my Mountaineering. South Sister area

[@kentslocum]

They're not even using carabiners! 😮

[@eej902]

Thought the hell hole was in Fresno County, CA this whole time! My second guess woulda been Bakersfield! JK...kinda

[@72marshflower15]

Good aim...

[@jeffalbillar7625]

No, you're not. 🤭

[@thewinesmith]

Thats the devils armpit...

[@thePrisoner1000]

Very cool, and you know they did have good climbing rigs back then! haha

[@MacPassion]

Man in pink T shirt, pony tail & bald spot... All the makings of a great video :D

[@toocutepuppies6535]

You're in socks with sandles territory now!

[@MacPassion]

@@toocutepuppies6535 :D

[@bernieponcik1351]

Massive Awesome lvl 37

[@scottgeorge4760]

He sound's pretty hip to me 😀 , to each his own . My brother shaved his head and has no bald spot now

[@bennolee348]

He looks like geology h john benjamin

[@lorid2092]

I enjoy snoopin' around in these mountains and above Blue River area, but no way in hell am I descending into THAT lol😅

[@SmackWaterMack001]

43 seconds in, and I cant listen to this guys voice any longer... and I live in Oregon.

[@nicholaspiscitelli7685]

I have a crack with slippage needs to be explored

[@dddhhh2612]

Before you see this violent savage hell hole, you'll feel it . . . from the mosquitos!

[@michaelchase418]

Found it thanks to this episode and some internet sleuthing. It wasn't easy back then.

[@BryonLape]

Thousands of years....or tomorrow afternoon at 2:37.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

And I do not see a downside to a four mile long lake in this watershed.

[@sadiewilson7053]

Dang! Just how many Mike Long's live in Oregon?!

[@nicholaspiscitelli7685]

People just can't leave anything alone

[@erikk77]

43° 53' 42.91 N -122° 21' 14.63 W

[@ericdillon7467]

Is this where D.B. COOPER went? Eric dying watching tv

[@williamrose7236]

Was there any seismic evidence of this??????

[@johnbarroll1120]

gold

[@reneepolmanteer3824]

No clue how I stumbled on this...I see that its from 95 but I find it funny they say one of a few people that know the location but they show a map w/latitude and longitude 😂 now I have to google Hells Hole in Colorado!

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

It’s Oregon. Not Colorado’s 🤣🤷‍♂️. The Willamette river is Oregon.

[@fjb4932]

matanuska high Shhh... Let him remain lost ...

[@mikeblair2594]

I've been there. Used 1inch fire hose to repel down. I wouldn't want to be there during a heavy rain storm.

[@slappy8941]

"Repel" means to drive away; what you mean is "rappel". #TheMoreYouKnow

[@brianharrigan8821]

WE USED AN OLD CLOTHS LINE , MY GRANDPAPPY WENT DOWN THERE WITH NO ROPE !!! BACK WHEN MEN WERE MEN !!!!

[@RogueReplicant]

@@brianharrigan8821 Okay, boomer, whatever you say

[@joyleenpoortier7496]

3 minutes in still have not seen the hell hole. That last for 1-2 minutes

[@rickc2102]

Patience, princess. They'd like to show the difficulty of the approach.

[@peterjarnes25]

We are approximately right here! Lmao

[@msm624]

What's the deal with that ridiculous rope??

[@ericdillon7467]

They always ask me questions, why I have no idea.... Eric dying not making sence

[@frost1947]

two guys get loaded drinking beer going to a drop-off in their mountains climbing in without proper equipment, like something with a brand on it, no really, they could have used proper ropes and climbing gear, I didn't see how long or difficult getting back up was.

[@tonymarselle8812]

Because all they found was this footage in a camera that was under a Boulder next to a pile of sun bleached bones.

[@GrimJerr]

"Uncountable Centuries" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Hyperbolic Much.

[@davidwalker99]

Bigfoot is the only thing missing.

[@4440ch]

95...was this before mountaineering rope.....thats classic rope made of hemp

[@slappy8941]

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

[@4440ch]

@@slappy8941 Not

[@4440ch]

@@slappy8941 not

[@dustinjohnson3463]

Headwaters of the Willamette

[@brianfergus839]

The title is incorrect. This is in the Coastal Range, not the Cascades

[@davelambardo6464]

I would disagree! It's on west face of cascades. Most consider anything east of i5 cascade range

[@nunyabizness199]

Hell hole ya say ?

[@cognitivedissonancecamp6326]

Everyone knows that Salem is Oregon’s hell hole, not the city of course, the capital and it’s inhabitants. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@Dusty.Spinster]

AND AND AND

[@gingerallen8178]

It's not Lava and 50,000 years its mudfossil large creatures that died in the flood

[@joebarbjb6668]

Commenters

[@faerieSAALE]

"HELL HOLE" I AM SURPRISED NO MAN JUMPED ON THAT ONE REFERRING TO AN EX-WIFE!

[@rogerscottcathey]

hehe. Is that avatar a real photo? Or art?

[@RogueReplicant]

One guy already did (see comments above). But he is referring to his current wife, lol 😅

[@1stFlyingeagle]

WTF. going down with a rope and no rope gear. How stupid.