Well I finally made it back.
As far as the Scott guy, the sheriff told me he was a "non-priority". He is pretty well dug in just upstream from the springs. Jason nearly had it out with him last night.
I have nothing more to say about him, waste of energy.
anyways...
When I hiked out today there was a couple dozen people there, a group of 7 kids on the beach drinking and blasting music, but they were picking up all their trash.
Another group of older people hiked out right after me up the Bradford ridge. They looked a bit lost so I stopped at Bradford ridge and waited for them, the old man had a huge topo map with absolutely nothing marked on it. I pointed them in the right direction.
It was cool to meet Wizard and Jason down there. (Maybe I'll get lucky enough one of these days to find a head (I was looking hard on my hike out))