By far the most popular hike in Aspen, the trail along Maroon Lake draws even the most flatfooted visitors: out-of-shape parents, their khaki pants and polo shirts drenched in sweat within a few hundred feet of the trailhead, out-of-breath grandparents stooping at the side of the trail, teenage girls intent on hiking in their flip-flops.
At the trailhead, pull out your compass and note pad.
As we started off, I was looking at the device, and Jeanne was looking at a paper map from the trailhead to figure out where to find Feltville.
This is, after all, a band that seven years ago made a politically tinged glitch opera about Don Henley and also more recently collaborated with Bjork on an EP about marine mammals and an obscure mountain (more of a tall hill really) named Wittenburg that happens to be my old trailhead for hiking out to a beach that you will never see or hear of.
Trailhead soldiers poured out of the entrance in a last desperate effort to protect their home.
During the next day, and for days to follow, Trailhead foragers slipped out for brief periods to search for whatever scraps of food had been overlooked by the Streamside patrols combing the area.
The Trailhead fire broke out Tuesday along the middle fork of the American River near Todd Valley, about 50 miles northeast of Sacramento, according to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
As we laced up our boots at the trailhead, with Betsy already checking out the smells of the forest, we were told by a ranger to look out for bears, which had been bothering picnickers in the area.
A shallow cave at the trailhead has been fitted out as a storeroom for gear and supplies.
The presence of the drone prompted authorities to ground aircraft for 30 minutes the evening of June 28, the day that the Trailhead fire broke out.
Mr. Baker, 35, who had shuttled me out to the trailhead in his pickup en route to dropping off a large load of bees at a friend's house, is vice president of the Pine Mountain Trail Conference, the organization behind the placement of those markers and the clearing of a path beneath them.
