The trail we used for our hunt was once a road up to the Bessie Creek Gold Mine (long gone). The road was made with fallen trees which have decayed and disappeared. In fact, there are very few signs of it ever being a road. The trailhead itself is almost impossible to find. About a mile up the trail from the highway is an old rusty air compressor that lies where it fell almost a hundred years ago. David and I marveled at the journey this old beast must have taken and the frustration of the men who lost it to the side of the trail.