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2 weeks agoSoCal woman, 37, identified in 'suspicious death' near Big Sur hot springs
A 37-year-old woman, Joanna Ruth Shields, was found dead near Sykes Hot Springs, prompting a suspicious death investigation.
Many of them were built for purposes that no longer exist - cattle drives, mining prospecting, early U.S. Forest Service fire patrols - while others were packed by the footprints of the Chumash people well before the colonization of North America. Sections of trail cling to steep slopes that seem to barely resist gravity, shedding soil and stone with each winter storm.