February 19, 2010
| Reporter | Richard Penny |
The log flume once stretched along the Fresno River for 50 miles from the mountains above Oakhurst to Madera in the San Joaquin Valley, a total drop of 4,000 feet. Started in 1874, it was known as the Sugar Pine Flume.
At several places in this section the flume was suspended directly from iron bars driven into the granite walls of the gorges.
Richard