Sierra antiquities in the backcountry

[robow8]

Saw this on the Triple Peak Fork Trail in Yosemite

[oldranger]

robow8

Is the main item rusted metal or ???, are the pointy things screws or nails? they almost look like horseshoe nails.

Mike

[robow8]

robow8

Is the main item rusted metal or ???, are the pointy things screws or nails? they almost look like horseshoe nails.

Mike

It's actually an old rubber heel from a shoe. I imagine someone found it and put it up on the rock so others could see.

[oldranger]

Ok that makes sense I have come across several heels like that, even almost an entire old boot at a Shorty cabin not visited often.

Mike

[Cross Country]

Sites in the backcountry cross country are not visited a lot. Therefor I don't believe that almost any are really sensitive, I (OF COURSE) realize some are sensitive (I believe there are VERY few). I believe that this applies to fishing places also. Why would we want to be such INCREDIBLE elitist. When I backpacked I told almost everyone of good places because I was intelligent enough and not an elitist.
Seriously - what are you thinking? And if you believe that I wasn't a SERIOUS backpacker you haven't been reading. I've read here of "men" who won't tell what to them is their opinion of the most beautiful place in the Sierra. Those "men" (I really think they're big children) are not just neurotic, they're just crazy or incredibly narcissistic.