A few Saturday’s ago, it was a nice spring day, and we head out for a hike and some geo-caching. We picked the North end of Folsom Lake for some caches that are normally only reachable in late Summer when the lake is at it’s lowest levels. You see, this part of the lake is usually under water, but since we had a super dry winter, it was reachable now!
It’s call the Magic Bridge because as the lake gets lower, magically, a bridge appears. This bridge was for the pioneer town of Salmon Falls.
Back in the day, Salmon Falls was founded by Mormon’s during the Gold Rush time. Salmon Falls served as a trading center for all the smaller mining camps in the area. It was once a prospering small town. Now all that’s left is a few cement foundations, and this bridge over the small river that now feeds into Folsom Lake. The entire town of Salmon Falls is usually about 50 feet under water.
There are several geo caches in the area, one on the bridge itself.
Here is the view from where the water line normally, is, where boats are launched. You can see the bridge in the background.
We reached the bridge, explored it a bit, found the cache, and then went on a little hiking finding more caches.
On the way home, we stopped at another Folsom Lake overlook, and then magically, we ended up somewhere familiar.
We had a great Saturday hike and had lots of fun!
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