The very juicy thread (well, juicy to at least 3 or 4 of us on this list!) that chick-on recently started about the old Wawona Road between the CG and Alder Creek got me thinking about an even older route through that area:
Various people (including me) have mentioned this trail here in the past. It was the route from Wawona to the Valley before the old Wawona Road was built. Unless I'm forgetting something on some of the particularly old maps I have around here, I've never seen it specifically called out on maps but, from the descriptions I've read, it would seem to have been at least partly along the lines of what we now call the Alder Creek trail. Any of my other old-road/trail-junky brethren here know anything specific about this? Searching the forum, the only hits I found were something I posted a couple of years ago (and, more indirectly, here). I think there was an earlier alignment of the Pohono Trail (which went out to the vicinity of Fort Monroe before turning to go out towards GP and that this may have been part of the remains of this old Mann Brothers route as well.
I'll do a bit more research when I have a little more time but I wanted to start this thread while it was on my mind.