Personal Narrative Essay: The Red Box Canyon

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On this weekend, our leader Mario had selected Red Box Canyon which is situated on the West Fork of the San Gabriel River. We were headed for The Valley Forge Campground. A round trip hike of around six miles in and out. We had planned to stay over night and pack out on Sunday. We had a full group with us, besides ourselves, there was Ralph and his brother, Kevin, Jim Spencer and his son Tim, and Mark Cook. This is an excellent trail shaded by a forest canopy of oak,spruce, and alders.The trail switch backs down to and crosses several creeks which become the head waters of the West Fork of the San Gabriel River. Actually the trail crosses over the creeks no less than eight times. See our leader Mario Bonura’s Trail Map.
Mario and I had
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In the course of several hours informs us this campground will soon be swarming with people. Some two hundred to be exact. For this day is the anniversary of some kind for the «Hippies,» and they are all coming here to celebrate it. Why these men and women, mostly Doctors and Lawyers, will be running around without any clothes while shooting off fire works as well. In addition they will be digging a huge pit and heating it up with water from the creek, under a make shift shelter of bush , branches and such. You know a sauna. This was going to be a party to beat all parties. Of course, we were stunned. This Ranger was allowing all these unauthorized people to come and desecrate this campground, and potentially setting the forest on fire.
So we all waited in anticipation for this huge party to start in the late afternoon. Around four in the afternoon three people arrived for this big event. And that was it, just four people to party until dawn. They kept to themselves, so we told our usual campfire stories about our backpacking adventures. Which as it turned out were more interesting then the other one across the campground. We all turned in, but Mark said they did set some fire works off, but it was not anything to talk about. However, this non-event became a great story to tell around our

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