maulhead
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I know where that campsite is at, I used to live about 40 miles from there. I've been 4 wheeling & sledding in that area a lot. It's a really cool area of the state but it's also a very rugged wilderness. It snows in feet not inches, in that area in the winter. There's several cool ghost towns up there, from the late 1800's and early 1900's silver & gold mining days. It's a really neat area to explore. Other than ghost towns, it's nothing but wilderness.
Pretty regularly they find people up there that died from exposure to the elements, or malnutrition. Hippies & tree huggers hike up in the hills thinking they are going to become one nature, they have a dream of camping or living in the mountains for a extended period of time, then they don't make it out alive and they find them the next summer. It happens pretty often, but most times it never makes it past local newspapers.
I've hoof'd it out of the Gunnison national forest a few times myself, because of issues, twice in the winter time, and once in the summer. One thing that kept me going, was I didn't want to be another story in the newspaper. Almost 19 miles on foot in a snow storm, 1 night in a vault toilet, I was never so happy in my life to see civilization and people. 9 miles a 2nd time in snow storm on foot to get out of there.
Gunnison national forest is close to 2 million acres of rugged harsh wilderness, and it's over 3 million acres when combined with the neighboring Uncompahgre national forest.
