The weather service was predicting rain from the evening through  the next week but this morning was cold and sunny so I took the Rumble Bee for its last ride in September up into the Cascades to the hamlet of Butte Falls for lunch at the Butte Falls Cafe; an old name and building with new owners as of  Aug. '13.  Once a lumber town, The two cafes now depend mostly on tourists, hunters, fishers and other outdoor types who venture into the Cascades north of Mt. McLaughlin--which by the way already had its first snow cap for the autumn.
The cafe has been repainted and has a really nice wooden counter and homemade-looking tables and chairs--giving it a lumber town look. Â I tried the mushroom-swiss-bacon burger. It was okay but the bacon was very limp. Fires come in full or half order, as does the other optional side to the burgers. Â The fries are coated for crispness.