I was a USFS wilderness ranger in Horseshoe Basin about 40 years ago. It's great to revisit places through your video that I spent two summers in. The only thing that's really changed is from the forest fires, which happened after my time there. Wildflowers are still gorgeous. Weather still changes quickly. Still not many people although Horseshoe Basin could get "busy" when 3 or 4 parties were camped in various parts of it. There was an old sheep-herders cabin hidden in Horseshoe Basin that I used for my base. I understand that's gone now. Thanks for letting me see that it's still staying pretty wild. Oh, and when I spotted a big tent a half mile or so over the border, I did an "expedition" to it. Turns out it was geologists who said they had found what could turn out to be a huge open-pit copper mine, that would have been a huge scar visible from Arnold Peak and probably elsewhere. I guess it never panned out fortunately. In my surreptitious forays into the Canadian side I found it even more beautiful and wild than much of the American side.
