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We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

Fire is now part of nearly every step along the #BigfootTrail

https://www.bigfoottrail.org/2026/01/fire-on-the-bigfoot-trail/?mc_cid=1f275f3325&mc_eid=ec18b05454

Fire is now part of nearly every step along the #BigfootTrail

https://www.bigfoottrail.org/2026/01/fire-on-the-bigfoot-trail/?mc_cid=1f275f3325&mc_eid=ec18b05454

Fire is now part of nearly every step along the #BigfootTrail

https://www.bigfoottrail.org/2026/01/fire-on-the-bigfoot-trail/?mc_cid=1f275f3325&mc_eid=ec18b05454

Fire is now part of nearly every step along the #BigfootTrail

https://www.bigfoottrail.org/2026/01/fire-on-the-bigfoot-trail/?mc_cid=1f275f3325&mc_eid=ec18b05454

Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/

Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/

Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/

Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/

Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/

Day 6: a little more work on another section of the lower loop of Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

Day 7: heading for home.

More information here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-ides-cove-loop.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 6: a little more work on another section of the lower loop of Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

Day 7: heading for home.

More information here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-ides-cove-loop.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 6: a little more work on another section of the lower loop of Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

Day 7: heading for home.

More information here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-ides-cove-loop.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 6: a little more work on another section of the lower loop of Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

Day 7: heading for home.

More information here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-ides-cove-loop.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 6: a little more work on another section of the lower loop of Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

Day 7: heading for home.

More information here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-ides-cove-loop.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Days 4+5: back at the trail work, this time getting out to a fabled area of Cedar Basin. Well, at least someone many of us knew had hiked the area and said it was a particularly nice spot.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-cedar-basin.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Days 4+5: back at the trail work, this time getting out to a fabled area of Cedar Basin. Well, at least someone many of us knew had hiked the area and said it was a particularly nice spot.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-cedar-basin.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Days 4+5: back at the trail work, this time getting out to a fabled area of Cedar Basin. Well, at least someone many of us knew had hiked the area and said it was a particularly nice spot.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-cedar-basin.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Days 4+5: back at the trail work, this time getting out to a fabled area of Cedar Basin. Well, at least someone many of us knew had hiked the area and said it was a particularly nice spot.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-cedar-basin.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Days 4+5: back at the trail work, this time getting out to a fabled area of Cedar Basin. Well, at least someone many of us knew had hiked the area and said it was a particularly nice spot.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-cedar-basin.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Back to Yolla Bolly for a little trail work, this time around the south mountains. This is the very southern end of the Bigfoot Trail! The first two days, we worked to Long Lake and along a connector trail for the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-square-lake-and-burnt.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

Back to Yolla Bolly for a little trail work, this time around the south mountains. This is the very southern end of the Bigfoot Trail! The first two days, we worked to Long Lake and along a connector trail for the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-square-lake-and-burnt.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

Back to Yolla Bolly for a little trail work, this time around the south mountains. This is the very southern end of the Bigfoot Trail! The first two days, we worked to Long Lake and along a connector trail for the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-square-lake-and-burnt.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

Back to Yolla Bolly for a little trail work, this time around the south mountains. This is the very southern end of the Bigfoot Trail! The first two days, we worked to Long Lake and along a connector trail for the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-square-lake-and-burnt.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

Back to Yolla Bolly for a little trail work, this time around the south mountains. This is the very southern end of the Bigfoot Trail! The first two days, we worked to Long Lake and along a connector trail for the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-square-lake-and-burnt.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

I signed up for 3 days of trail work which turned into 2 days of work and a hike. First, the trail work:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/humboldt-trail.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

I signed up for 3 days of trail work which turned into 2 days of work and a hike. First, the trail work:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/humboldt-trail.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

I signed up for 3 days of trail work which turned into 2 days of work and a hike. First, the trail work:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/humboldt-trail.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

I signed up for 3 days of trail work which turned into 2 days of work and a hike. First, the trail work:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/humboldt-trail.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

I signed up for 3 days of trail work which turned into 2 days of work and a hike. First, the trail work:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/humboldt-trail.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

We cleared Whitethorn Ceanothus from the #BigfootTrail in the northern Yolla Bolly wilderness. The California Conservation Corp joined us on Friday. They may have wondered if a judge had sentenced us to community service in the hot sun!

We cleared Whitethorn Ceanothus from the #BigfootTrail in the northern Yolla Bolly wilderness. The California Conservation Corp joined us on Friday. They may have wondered if a judge had sentenced us to community service in the hot sun!

We cleared Whitethorn Ceanothus from the #BigfootTrail in the northern Yolla Bolly wilderness. The California Conservation Corp joined us on Friday. They may have wondered if a judge had sentenced us to community service in the hot sun!

We cleared Whitethorn Ceanothus from the #BigfootTrail in the northern Yolla Bolly wilderness. The California Conservation Corp joined us on Friday. They may have wondered if a judge had sentenced us to community service in the hot sun!

Before and after photos along the #BigfootTrail along Tule Creek.

Before and after photos along the #BigfootTrail along Tule Creek.

Before and after photos along the #BigfootTrail along Tule Creek.

Before and after photos along the #BigfootTrail along Tule Creek.

Before and after photos along the #BigfootTrail along Tule Creek.

After the restful day 4, day 5 backpacking South Fork Trinity River Trail was extra long to finish. I ended up making it even longer by exploring an alternate route option above Murphy Place instead of below.
Details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/09/south-fork-circling-murphy.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #TrinityNationalForest #NationalRecreationTrail #forest #river #SouthForkTrinityRiver #BigfootTrail #backpack #backpacking

After the restful day 4, day 5 backpacking South Fork Trinity River Trail was extra long to finish. I ended up making it even longer by exploring an alternate route option above Murphy Place instead of below.
Details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/09/south-fork-circling-murphy.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #TrinityNationalForest #NationalRecreationTrail #forest #river #SouthForkTrinityRiver #BigfootTrail #backpack #backpacking