The trail winds up from here, crossing the trickling brook again on a footbridge. Salmonberry and alders dominate the bottomlands at creek level. Descend two sets of steps and reach the rail cutting of the Dooley Spur above Rock Creek: the Dooley Spur connected with a line that took the logs to a sawmill in Vernonia. Bend left and drop slightly over a trickling brook.

This trail heads up on an old logging road under alders. From the junction, go right on the Dooley Spur Trail. You'll have to peer around a little to find it as the ubiquitous moss has given it a feathery green coating and the sled runners have turned into nurse logs. A steam donkey is explained here and the log sled that supported the donkey is rotting away in the woods behind the sign. The path switchbacks left at a goblin stump and winds into the woods past a bench to an interpretive sign at a junction. Large stumps attest to former logging activity. At a junction, go right on the Springboard Trail into western hemlock, Douglas-fir, alder woods with salal, Oregon grape, and sword fern in the understory. The trail begins past a trail map and crosses a wide footbridge over the South Fork Rock Creek. The interpretive sign gives some of the history, but there's not much left in terms of logging equipment - and no steam donkey! However, this is a good leg-stretcher if you're traveling Highway 26 and allows you to at least reflect on the intensive logging conducted in the Coast Range in the 1920s and 1930s (Logging in this area was effectively halted in 1933 by the Wolf Creek Fire). When one of your party members dies, a funeral is briefly held, at which you may write a suitable tombstone epitaph, and after which you continue down the trail.ДЄt the conclusion of the journey, points are awarded according to a formula weighted by the profession chosen (points are doubled for a carpenter and tripled for a farmer), the number and health of surviving family members, remaining possessions, and cash on hand.These two short trails, the Springboard and the Dooley Spur, offer an interpretive loop around a former logging site at the Sunset Rest Area on Highway 26. Your oxen were also subject to illness and death. People could also die from drowning or a broken leg. Throughout the course of the game, members of your party could fall ill and die from a variety of causes, such as measles, snakebite, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, and exhaustion. For example, hunting during winter would result in graphics showing grass covered in snow. Also in the later version, you could hunt in different environments. Some would consider this a realistic representation of the wild west. It was extremely common for players to kill several thousand pounds worth of animals, only to waste the large majority of it. In later versions, as long as there were at least two living members of the wagon party, 200 pounds could be carried back to the wagon. While the amount of wild game shot during a hunting excursion is limited by only the player's supply of bullets, the maximum amount that can be carried back to the wagon is 100 pounds in early versions of the game. Deer (eastern section) and elk (western section) were in the middle in terms of speed, size, and food yield bear were between bison and deer in all three properties.

Bison were the slowest moving targets and yielded the most food, while rabbits and squirrels were fast and offered very small amounts of food. In later versions, players hunted with a crosshair controlled by the mouse. Later, players would control a little man who was capable of pointing a rifle in eight directions and firing single shots at animals. In the original version, there were no graphics and players were timed on how fast they could type 'BANG,' 'WHAM,' or 'POW,' with misspelled words resulting in a failed hunt. Using guns and bullets purchased over the course of the game, players select the hunt option and hunt wild animals to add to their food reserves. The game has been released in many editions since the original release by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to the game.ДЄn important aspect of the game was the ability to hunt. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.

The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974.

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