Rangers are trying to find a hiker who went missing in Sequoia National Park. Authorities say 43-year-old Matthew Thoke was hiking along the High Sierra Trail Between Kaweah Gap and Crescent Meadow.
It was somewhere just before the last switchback that I saw it. This was, perhaps, the best view of the High Sierra I’ve ever had — and I hadn’t even gotten to the lonely alpine lake at the end of the ...