Mormon Emigrant Trail

Amal and I along with Alex walked a rather steep 5 miles up the Mormon Emigrant trail, which is a paved road until we reached the heavy snow line. The next walk looks like will be over the mountain in heavy snow and we will need to camp out overnight as its a 15 mile walk on snow shoes and I don't think I can walk that far on those shoes in one day. We found a sight of an motorcycle accident in 1989 that had large white crosses and the burned melted engine mounted on a stone pedestal from one of the bikes. It was made into a memorial. It was very touching. We found no money on this walk.

HWY 50 to Mormon Emigrant Trail

Jackie and I took off from near hwy 50 on sly park road and walked a onto a network of dirt roads called Park Creek rd. for a total of about 7 miles. For the length of the entire distance we saw no one else. The forest was beautiful and the weather cool and it made for a nice walk. We reached a spot about a third the way in were 8 dirt roads came together. Finally Jackie called one of her friends to get directions to which road we should take to get out of the hub. We took the road to the right of the "t shaped metal sign" that told about Carson trail. We came out finally on the Mormon Emigrant trail three hours later. We found no money on this walk.

From Camino to Sly Park

Today we walked from town of Camino along the pony express trail to Sly Park then under hwy 50 up to Sly Park road climbing 1000ft in elevation and travelling a total of 10 miles. It was perfect weather nice and cool out with the scenery of forest very nice. We finally began to hit patches of snow. I found 26 cents.

From Placerville to Camino

Today Amal, Jackie and me walked a total of 8,5 miles starting from Placerville and finishing by walking to the town of Camino. It was a crazy walk we started out fine but about half way on the trail we met up with a wild turkey that decided we were in his territory he displayed feathers and chased after us down the trail. It was humorous to see the fellow strutting his stuff. later the trail ended unexpectedly at the edge of hwy 50 and we were forced to walk the last mile and a half across the woods we got caught up in a huge field of black berry and got all scratched up. Finally we managed to find a dirt road and came out near the Camino grammar school. Quite a day. We found no money today.

Rescue to Placerville

3/16/10 Had a very difficult walk today. Managed to do 10 miles but because we climbed in that 10 miles 1000 feet of elevation higher I guess I got wore out. It goes to show I'm not all the way healed from the heart attack or else not healed from taking poor care of my health in the first place. Any rate we manage to make it from the town of Rescue to the town of Placerville. We talked to several people on the walk. This is the home town of Jackie and a couple of times people noticed her and pulled their cars over to talk to her and me. It was a nice walk besides being so tiring for some reason. We found nineteen cents.

Pleasant Grove House

3/14/10 We walked from the Purple place along Green Valery road a full 10 miles, it started off cold that morning but soon warmed up. We stopped at a small cafe and ate some breakfast around 10am finally ending up at rescue elementary school. Amal my boy, of course was not even tired from the walk. We walked past the old pony express stop called "Pleasant Grove

House."

http://co.el-dorado.ca.us/stories/PleasantGroveHouse.html

It was very interesting historical land mark. We found 44 cents on the walk.

Folsom

3/12/10 Walked today from the town of Folsom about 7.0 miles ending up on Green Valley road at a nice restaurant and bar called The purple place. We met the owner mike who was very nice and then had lunch. The walks first half was great but by the time we reached the Folsom dam the rain started to fall, it continued to get heaver and heaver. Finally we managed to make it to the Purple Place Grill and Bar on Green Valley road where the rain started to come down so heavy we called the walk quits for the day. It was a nice walk all and all , Folsom lake look great and we walked close enough to hear the convicts at the prison as we walked past across the rivers gorge from us. No money found today ;-(