Pioneer Express Trail
The Pioneer Express Trail on lake folsom travels along the river. I'm not sure how far it travels exactly however I do know that this was one of the main trails in 1849 for horseback travelers to deliver mail to the mining camps along the river.
There are many entries to the main trail but many of them I believe are paved further down into the folsom-sacramento region. I read somewhere its part of the main bike trail which is 54 miles from Auburn to Discovery Park.
For this adventure we decided to take the trail starting from Rattlesnake Bar.
Pioneer express trail
I took the path to the right originally along the lake. This had was overgrown in multiple areas, which I might add being an Motorcycle rider... the bike's do help maintain trails... Just saying...
trees falling
we hiked through, found many spots where the trail had fallen into the cliffs below. It was apparent that there used to be some type of water way. It was a water delivery system that was developed in 1851 by Amos P. Catlin to supply water. Interesting research Don Chaddock did in this regards located here; http://folsomtelegraph.com/detail/97143.html
 waterway disappearing into the lake |
 The Natoma ditch disappearing in spots |
 Starting from Rattlesnake bar |
 Starting from Granite Bay |
I believe the body bugg pedometer told us we did just under three miles. Seemed further, the kids were ready for a Taylors milk shake for sure.
http://www.davidpbartels.com/pioneer-trial-slideshow2/
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