@@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
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.
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..
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.
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....
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.
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 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.
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!!
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 !
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!
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.
AH THE GOOD OLD DAYS....NO HARNESS...JUST GOOD OL' ROPE. 😂
Body belayyyyyyyy 😍
@@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
@@thewinesmith brave people.
Stunning, plus great videography.
Is that Weston below in the distance?
1:15 - "...the few who know where this is."
Secret no more,a bunch of astronauts
43° 53' 42.91 N -122° 21' 14.63 W
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.
That footage is sharp for 1995 videotape
so how much has this thing moved by now? it's been 25 years
A lot. It’s a lot deeper now.
You wouldn't find me in that death trap, thanks for sharing though!
Thought the hell hole was in Fresno County, CA this whole time! My second guess woulda been Bakersfield! JK...kinda
Good aim...
No, you're not.
🤭
Thats the devils armpit...
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.
The Cascade holes closer to Port Orford , have wind coming out of them , and you can smell salt water .
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..
How do you get to hell hole oregon?
@@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.
@@davelambardo6464 hahaha
@@davelambardo6464 hahaha just had to say I LOVE your sense of humor and reality! thank you!
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.
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....
Man in pink T shirt, pony tail & bald spot... All the makings of a great video :D
You're in socks with sandles territory now!
@@toocutepuppies6535 :D
Massive Awesome lvl 37
He sound's pretty hip to me 😀 , to each his own . My brother shaved his head and has no bald spot now
He looks like geology h john benjamin
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.
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
@@davelambardo6464 and now most of them are absolutely worthless. They hire by quota. Most of them are clueless urbanites.
@@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.
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!!
Wow, the 90s safety gear. What a hell of a time to be alive.
Haha ikr just a rope and some gloves lol.
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.
???
1:13 among few that know the whereabouts. .... as they show the exact location?
😂👍🏼
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?
Yeah. It is. And that better stay legal.
😂😂😂
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).
It’s been passed from generation to generation for 11,000 years. It was made in Atlantis.
@@JdotAdotH lol
Nice old video! I just did a video here recently.
Wow! That voice! 😍
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.
The *HELL HOLE* drinking game.
I can’t even count how many there were.
The guy in the pink shirt is Paul Rudd's long lost Oregonian doppelganger lol
He even sounds like Paul Rudd when he talks haha!
They're not even using carabiners! 😮
The Earth has been doing its thing for millions of years, These guys are gonna figure it all out.
Thats the area I learned my Mountaineering. South Sister area
The dirt at the top is so dry & loose, it seems like it's never seen rain.
That's funny, because Oregon is known for raining alot
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....
🤔
@@77thTrombone i believe that Oregon is part of a rain forest. I know that parts of Washington are rain forest
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.
There’s another crack roughly 7 miles SW of there that’s at least that deep.
I enjoy snoopin' around in these mountains and above Blue River area, but no way in hell am I descending into THAT lol😅
43 seconds in, and I cant listen to this guys voice any longer... and I live in Oregon.
Very cool, and you know they did have good climbing rigs back then! haha
They always ask me questions, why I have no idea.... Eric dying not making sence
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 !
That’s awesome.
Is this where D.B. COOPER went? Eric dying watching tv
Dang!
Just how many Mike Long's live in Oregon?!
I like this, I like hearing of anything back home.
And I do not see a downside to a four mile long lake in this watershed.
I have a crack with slippage needs to be explored
People just can't leave anything alone
Great video thank you 👍🏻
Thousands of years....or tomorrow afternoon at 2:37.
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!
It’s Oregon. Not Colorado’s 🤣🤷♂️. The Willamette river is Oregon.
matanuska high
Shhh...
Let him remain lost ...
Bigfoot is the only thing missing.
Hell hole ya say ?
gold
AND AND AND
Before you see this violent savage hell hole, you'll feel it . . . from the mosquitos!
"Uncountable Centuries" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Hyperbolic Much.
Was there any seismic evidence of this??????
I've been there. Used 1inch fire hose to repel down. I wouldn't want to be there during a heavy rain storm.
"Repel" means to drive away; what you mean is "rappel".
#TheMoreYouKnow
WE USED AN OLD CLOTHS LINE , MY GRANDPAPPY WENT DOWN THERE WITH NO ROPE !!!
BACK WHEN MEN WERE MEN !!!!
@@brianharrigan8821 Okay, boomer, whatever you say
Headwaters of the Willamette
We are approximately right here! Lmao
43° 53' 42.91 N -122° 21' 14.63 W
What's the deal with that ridiculous rope??
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.
Because all they found was this footage in a camera that was under a Boulder next to a pile of sun bleached bones.
3 minutes in still have not seen the hell hole. That last for 1-2 minutes
Patience, princess. They'd like to show the difficulty of the approach.
95...was this before mountaineering rope.....thats classic rope made of hemp
I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
@@slappy8941 Not
@@slappy8941 not
Commenters
Everyone knows that Salem is Oregon’s hell hole, not the city of course, the capital and it’s inhabitants. 🤷🏿♂️
It's not Lava and 50,000 years its mudfossil large creatures that died in the flood
The title is incorrect. This is in the Coastal Range, not the Cascades
I would disagree! It's on west face of cascades. Most consider anything east of i5 cascade range
"HELL HOLE" I AM SURPRISED NO MAN JUMPED ON THAT ONE REFERRING TO AN EX-WIFE!
hehe. Is that avatar a real photo? Or art?
One guy already did (see comments above). But he is referring to his current wife, lol 😅
WTF. going down with a rope and no rope gear. How stupid.