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By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
August 26, 2005
The Ochocos were forged by fire.
I'm clacking around on a sidehill jumble of boot-sized rocks leading up to a couple of pinnacles that poke out above the conifer canopy deep inside the Mill Creek Wilderness. From what I've read, I must be standing very close to a "volcanic throat," a....