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Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson

President of the Rubicon Trail Foundation; off-road enthusiast, desert racer, and writer known as "The Dusty Gnome"

Jun 24, 2026

JasonHOST
17:27
Okay.
17:28
And when Tahoe National Forest took, took over, like, uh, taking care of that side of the trail, they, they saw this and they're like, "Oh, what the heck is this?" And started looking into it.
17:43
Uh, had it rechecked out, and they agreed, yeah, this, this is, it's collapsing.
17:51
The, this portion of the trail, like, it's not gonna happen, like, can't tell you it's gonna happen tomorrow, can't tell you it's gonna happen in 1,000 years, but at some point [laughs] this decomposed granite, this hillside is going to fall down into the creek.

20 MINS LATER

JasonHOST
37:39
Mm-hmm.
37:39
Uh, but yeah, so say you're, say you're out on the trail and you break an axle shaft in a JK or something, we'll, we'll probably have the shaft at one location.
37:49
Uh, you get with Glenn or Gerald, our mid-trail staff, on the, on the radio, on the ham or the GMRS, and, uh, he can usually get you set up, get you a part.
38:00
Uh, we do charge, uh, w- we do charge for the parts, so obviously we can either get another part donated or replace it, buy other stuff we need.

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