Springville trio pushes through hardship to complete Sierra Nevada journey

It was an adventure as hair-raising as it was poignant and charitable.

Jack McArthur still gives an audible shiver describing the boulder-strewn trails and gaping river canyons that stretched out before him and his friend this summer.

Mike McGinnis, his buddy, said the terrain ahead of them in the Sierra Nevada seemed only to grow more rugged, the circumstances more dire should anything go wrong.

The two Springville men had for years planned a version of the 300-mile, 31-day pack trip, mostly along the John Muir Trail from Yosemite National Park to Balch Park Pack Station, on the edge of the Sequoia National Forest just east of their hometown.

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