Wow...nothing like fending off a little assault while looking for steelhead. Odd, too, because I've fished some real urban locations that got a bit sketchy after dark, yet up past the washout on the Galena/Index road one would think you'd need to be more worried about mountain lions or black bears than people...that's too bad. I have second thoughts heading up there alone now.

Huntncoug, what kind of crazy things? Is that the worst part, some of the tents/shacks up by Howard Creek area?