After seven miles of rocky, steep terrain that more closely resembled a hiking trail than a road, I abandoned my car, gave up on the monument, and settled for hoofing it down to Deer Creek. It’s nearly impossible to drive that stretch.
He told me he had never been 20 miles down that road. I told him it was 20 miles down the road we were on. But when I arrived at a gas station along a dirt road entering the wilderness area, the attendant had never heard of the campground where I planned to stay. My plan was to hike to the Ishi Marker, a monument to California’s so-called “last wild Indian,” and camp in the area near where he and his tribe had wintered. The approximately 41,000-acre wilderness area is located in the Lassen National Forest in a remote part of the southern Cascade foothills northeast of Chico, within sight of Mount Lassen. Even then, you should be willing to ditch the car and walk. To get to the Ishi Wilderness you’ll want a full tank of gas and four-wheel-drive. Audio version of this story, narrated by Laura Smith
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