The last time anyone really got excited about the terrain was in the last third of the 19th century, when prospectors discovered what seemed to be rich veins of gold, silver, copper and lead. The bonanza was short-lived, but the mountain's enticing name endured: Mineral King, an area of majestic 12,000-ft. peaks in California's eastern Sierras, 228 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
The last of the miners had left by the turn of the century, and it was not until four years ago that a new band of prospectors returned to Mineral King....
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