In our 2005 backpacking trip, we began and ended our four day loop in spectacular Mineral King Valley in Sequoia National Park. It is an incredible setting surrounded by 12,000 ft mountains and the infamous Mineral King road plops you right into the thick of it.
We finished out our trail on the road at Atwell Mill with our car a few miles away at the Sawtooth trailhead. Luckily a friendly driver in a pickup truck came along and offered to haul us down the road a bit and that was music to our ears. It turned out he and a friend were heading to his cabin, one of the private cabins I briefly read about before the trip, and he even offered us beer. It was another offer we certainly couldn’t turn down. We followed them to the cabin and hung out on the small deck for a while before we left to make the long drive back to LA.
I have to admit, when I first learned there were private cabins in the middle of a National Park, and which had always been federal land, I thought it was a bit strange. Read More »
A couple of young guys set up some nasty booby traps on a popular trail in Provo Canyon, Utah complete with a kind of bait that definitely were designed to hurt people. Traps are intriguing and maybe they thought it could be fun to try and set up traps like you see in movies or something but that’s pretty scary. Thankfully the first person to run into them was able to recognize what they were otherwise it could have been a much worse story.
