Another surprise discovery in the Humboldt\u2013Toiyabe National Forest is the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. I came around a corner and sitting not too far from the road was coast guard helicopter. This was another moment I wanted to stop and take a picture.  Judging by all the cameras and barbed wire fence, it didn’t seem like a good spot to just pull over and start snapping pictures haha.<\/p>\n

Located in Pickel Meadows on California State Route 108 at 6,800 feet ]above sea level, the training center exists to train units in complex compartmented terrain. The Mountain Warfare Training Center is one of the Corps’ most remote and isolated posts. The Center was established in 1951 as the Cold Weather Battalion with a mission of providing cold-weather training for replacement personnel bound for Korea.^{<\/sup> After the Korean War, in 1963, the school was renamed the “Mountain Warfare Training Center” due to its expanded role. During the 1980s, the Training Center’s focus was on training and preparing Marines and operational units for deployments on NATO’s Northern flank, particularly Norway.<\/sup>Recently, with the Global War on Terrorism, the MWTC provided pre-deployment training in support of Operation Enduring Freedom\u2014the war in Afghanistan.<\/sup><\/p>\n}