Old Osseo Trail
Where: Old Osseo Trail When: Summer, 1986 (?) With: Solo One odd thing about the last hike...I'd expected the Osseo Trail to come out on the highway, west of the Wilderness Trail trailhead. Instead, while hiking in I found it hooking up with the WT, with signs saying it'd been relocated. A little investigation told me that the relocation had been due to condo construction at the old Osseo trailhead. "Hm," says I, "I wonder if any of the old trail is still there?" So I went in from the Wilderness Trail and headed up from the new trail junction. Up and up and up. Steeper and steeper. Toward the top the trail had steps and ladders, it was so steep. Finally I made the top and stopped at an outlook for lunch. A nice view over the Pemi Wilderness. The trail was flat from here and I went looking for some sign of the trail. Suddenly I saw a plastic marker on a bush and sure enough, there were the remnants of the trail. I followed it on a ridge through some p...