Inside the decadeslong fight for a safe, legal trail to Mossbrae Falls.
There are two ways to get to Mossbrae Falls, one of the most beautiful natural attractions in California, about 30 minutes from the base of Mount Shasta. Unfortunately, neither of the routes are legal — and the more popular one involves a potentially deadly trek along active railroad tracks.
Signage makes it clear that no one is allowed to hike along these train tracks near Mossbrae Falls. But many people ignore the sign.Over the years, concerned citizens, nonprofit groups and city officials have pushed for a safe and accessible path to the falls. So far, every plan has fallen apart in the negotiation phase, due in large part to both passive and active resistance from the property owners on either side of the river.
Back in the late 1800s, wealthy passengers took Southern Pacific trains to witness Mossbrae in all its glory, and sip water from a natural spring at the top of the falls. One of the tourists was Alexander Graham Bell’s wife, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell, who wrote to her husband about the experience.
Ballard claimed the group’s principles were based on what he learned during an encounter with a spiritual entity named Saint Germain, whom he’d met in 1930, on the steep slope of Mount Shasta. Using the entity’s teachings, Ballard and his wife started the “I AM” movement, which collectedfrom the faithful and claimed that group leaders could shift world events and heal the sick. It spread from Northern California to more than a million adherents worldwide by 1938.
“They have cameras on their property, so they’ll see people and come after them,” Kerns told me. The members wear “dress capes” that extend from “here to here,” Kerns added, gesturing to her neck and her knees. “It’s trippy.”
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