1.   Rangers have posted warnings at trail heads and campgrounds urging hikers to use caution when out in the wild.

2.   An upper parking lot takes you to a trail head that goes down.

3.   Another trail head.

4.   As I searched for the trail head, I heard loud drumbeats coming from the white gompa above the village.

5.   A Page resident, Ted Candelaria, noticed an empty van parked near the trail head on his way home from work at the nearby Navajo Generating Station.

6.   A taxi service is available for hikers who want to be at the trail head earlier or later than that.

7.   But once the trail heads into the marsh, the whoosh of traffic falls away, and astonishing vignettes are revealed.

8.   But outdoors lovers worry that the trend may go too far, pricing out some people and clogging trail heads with vending machines.

9.   Closed until further notice is the entire burn area, including Mount Vision Road, Limantour Road, and the Estero trail head.

10.   Finally, after two and a half hours of driving, we approached the trail head to Lassen Peak.