I think it was in 1959 or 60 I had a job packing mules for Reds Meadows by the Devils Postpile in the High Sierra Nevada, not far from Mammoth Mountain Ski resort. Reds Meadows is still there renting livestock for camping trips into the high mountains. Some of our camps were as high as 10,500 feet, but others were actually down hill from the pack station. We would take people down to Fish Creek. Once on Fish Creek, which is 8 or 9 miles into the back country, follow the trail up stream to a place where there is a hot spring. That's called Daisy Dell camp, and the camp is located in the fork of a stream that flows out of the hot spring and a cold water stream that flows out of Shark Tooth lake. This is a neat camp, because you have hot and cold running right at your camp. Follow the trail up to Shark Tooth lake, then continue past the lake until you top out near the peak of Shark Tooth mountain. Dismount and walk up to the top of the mountain, it's not very far or a hard hike. Stand there looking west at the awesome view clear to the Pacific Ocean, then check around your feet. I put a couple of silver coins under a fairly good sized rock, but one that wasn't hard for me to roll up on its edge, then set it down on the coins. My plans were to go back and pick them up, but I never did. If you go there to find the coins, it would probably be wise to take a fishing pole and make it a fishing trip, because there isn't much treasure there, perhaps 4 bits at the most, and the stream fishing on fish creek is awesome.
not too long ago in fact... every time I go to that park I run my detector over the area to see if anyone has found them yet. They are still there as of 2 weekago.
