Estate Planning — Navigating end-of-life care: Lessons from a daughter’s tragic experience
As our loved ones age, end-of-life decisions can come sooner and with more complexity than we expect. A heartbreaking story by Maggie Schneider Huston in Newsweek illustrates just how critical it is to prepare and advocate effectively. In 2023, after the death of his...
Sheriff’s Log
Editor’s note: As the sheriff’s department is no longer providing their log of calls, the Alpine Mountaineer is compiling Nixle press releases for our readers. This week there are no new releases from the mountain area or Highland.
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Operator
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting some very strange phone calls of late, dozens of calls every cotton-pickin’ day, many of which have no one there to talk to. I call them “ghost calls.” I beg them to say something, anything. It’s really annoying when they...
Those Were The Days — Devil’s Canyon Lumber Road
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The 1853 Mormon Road up Twin Creek Canyon from San Bernardino was washed out by the 1862 Noachian Flood, and that route was abandoned after flooding out again in 1867. This led to Edward Daley constructing his toll road, which...









