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Show most to the top of it and slipped to the edge of the road side trying to go around one of those big rocks. I couldnt go forward My friend Nancy called to ter she and M. H. had gone to because one wheel was hanging off in space and I didnt say she and her friend, M. H., conquer the Honacker Trail. H ow was your hike, I dare try to back up because I were going to the vicinity of had driven over one rock and Mexican Hat to hike down the asked. We never got there. We around another before I almost Honacker Trail to the San couldnt find the road and so drove off the side of the dumb Juan River. Do you know how to get to we went back to Bluff and hill. I was by myself and figured asked Steve at the Twin Rocks the trailhead? I asked. M. H. says she knows. Shes Trading Post for directions. He the only thing I could do was said we had turned leave the car where it was and been wanting to go off the Johns Road walk out. I was really tired down there for a because I had been walking for too soon. long time and she knows exactly how By the way, I hours already, on the edge of to get there. canyon. I had to walk ontheMESA told him I was a the river friend of yours and out to the Johns Canyon Road Well, I used to Valle Doris by that you had given and then down it to the hightake the Johns me some direcway and it was getting dark Canyon Road, and to and I kept hoping someone then turn on a dirt road to the tions. He told me to be sure left just before I got into check back in at the trading would notice that I had not Johns. And then you just fol- post w'hen we were on our gotten home and come after me. low the road until you see the way out. I insisted I couldnt But I walked and walked If he lost and marked trail head. said, get youre Its been a long time since I a friend of Doris Valles you and there was no sign of anyhiked down the canyon side on probably can. She could get one until I got to the highway and a nice Navajo picked me the trail where Augustus lost anywhere... Honacker blasted and dug out Well, Ive always insisted up and took me the last four miles to the store. an access to the San Juan that I have talents. The next time I River banks where he had fded Everyone has talwas in there I several gold mining claims. ents, some things checked the mileHis efforts were notable as they can do excepan exceptional engineering tionally well. age on the cars odometer and got feat for that time - 1894 to My problem is tired again when I 1897 - with the equipment that I have never saw that it was available to him. If he had really been able to marketseven miles from decide what successfully produced my able amounts of gold he had a talents are, and its humiliatwhere I left my car to the hightrail so substantial that he ing to learn that my only claim way. could have taken pack mules to fame is the ability to get lost. Doris, why didnt you tell down it to haul his ore to the When Nancy was describing me about that hill? Well, I had kinda forgotten top of the canyon and on to the her aborted Honacker Trail market. hike she was complaining that it. Forgotten it? You can reUnfortunately, he left his the road was very bad, washed claims with only enough gold out and that there was a hill member it now after I almost to have a ring made for his where there were large boulwrecked my car trying to get wife, a wide band etched with ders. She got up and down thing. up and down the d A Then Nancy hung up and I a grape design. hundred that hill but feared she had haven't talked to her since. I years later his granddaughter. damaged her car. I Hazel Lyman of Blanding, was remember that hill, hope that she will be speaking to me again eventually. still wearing that ring. Nancy, I said. Once I got al There is also a Mendenhall Trail in that area. 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