The Mineral King Preservation Society sponsors an annual picnic each year in Mineral King in July. It is a bring-your-own-picnic, bring-your-own-chair event. There is lots of chit-chat among friends, and each year a speaker brings stories of Mineral King for learning, entertainment, and for the preservation of history.

This year the speaker will be Trail Guy, telling of his three winters in Mineral King (before I met him).

He does NOT do public speaking, so I will be interviewing him, there to “prime the pump” and to carry him over verbal speed-bumps and snags.

He knows his story well, and I have been learning it over the past 39 years. It is . . .

. . . it is. . .

You gotta come hear it for yourself.