Madulce Station Retrospective
Sometimes it is good to pause for historical perspective and consider what existed in the past and what has been lost. From the late 1970s through 1988 I traveled through Madulce Station many times. It was a unique location in the Los Padres as I think these pictures will amply demonstrate. The photographs in this set were taken in 1983.
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I suppose I chose to shoot from this angle to bring the Forest Service sign into full view. The frame pack also in full view in this shot is my Northface Backmagic vintage 1978. Did you know that North Face manufactured a frame pack at one time? The unique technological elaboration of this pack was a plastic coupler that joined the waist belt to the frame and allowed the belt unit to move freely with the body (in theory, and it worked fairly well).
