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From the gravel Coquihalla Highway logging road, the track
gradually ascends through sun-dappled fir and spruce forest for
a kilometre. Then, it descends to trickling Podunk Creek, named
for Podunk Davis, a trapper from the early 1900s who is legendary
in these parts for his tales of escapade. Nearby Davis Mountain
is named in his honour.
Podunk Davis is best known for finding the lost adventuress,
Mary Warburton. In 1926, Ms. Warburton was endeavouring, by her
lonesome, to navigate the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Tulameen
BC. After a time, she became disoriented, lost her way, and stumbled
haplessly in dense bush for about two weeks, before Davis happened
across her. Reports say, when she laid her weary eyes on Podunk,
glowing in the bright sunlight with his flowing hair and white
beard, she thought it was the angel Gabriel.
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