#klamathnf — Public Fediverse posts

Day three saw more wildflowers (and a few rain drops) on the way out again:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/04/wooley-salmon.html

*Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California

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Day two on Wooley Creek found much water and a bit of bad trail:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/04/wooley-haypress-creek.html

*Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California

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Delightful wildflowers and snowy mountains in the distance on the hike into Wooley Creek:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/04/wooley-deer-lick-creek.html

*Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, California

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Unfortunately, day 4 was the early, unplanned, hike out because the August storms were bearing fruit. A little of it was visible along this route out. As were some firefighting efforts.
The whole story is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/big-elk-sky-high-valley.html

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Things were going great for the first two days of working on the Bigfoot Trail in the Marble Mountains.
The whole story is here:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/big-elk-working-bigfoot-trail.html

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I had a lovely hike up to the camp for another week of trail work (well, 4 days planned for actually working) heading up Canyon Creek in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of Kamath National Forest.
The whole story is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/big-elk-canyon-creek.html

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The second day included bagging of Boulder Peak, the high point of the entire Marble Mountain Wilderness. Then I took a different way down through Second Valley.
The blog post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/boulder-boulder-peak-and-second-valley.html

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A bit of a hill to climb, then a waterfall and a lake to make an easier day on the first of an overnight to bag the high point of the Marble Mountain Wilderness:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/boulder-lower-wrights-lake.html

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Incidentally, the waterfall in the 3rd pic is also in the 1st.

3rd and final day at the north end of the Russian Wilderness: A morning visit to Albert Lake, then a little extra PCT time before returning to the car on the PCT the other direction.
For a whole lot more: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/etna-albert-lake-and-pacific-crest-trail.html

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Day 2 around the north end of the Russian Wilderness: Tagging the top of Etna Mountain and then stopping by Meeks Meadow Lake and Smith Lake (by trail that isn't) and finally Paynes Lake.

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I spent a little more time around the north end of the Russian Wilderness, making a little loop visiting lakes and taking in a stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Day 1 was a short one, just a few miles along to a lakeside camp.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/etna-ruffey-lake.html

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A few from the 7 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail to finish backpacking around the Russian Wilderness on my 3rd and last day.
Lots more and all the details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/russian-pacific-crest-trail.html

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Day 2 #backpacking the #RussianWilderness started as a short plan, but couldn't stay that way. I added on a cross country hike to a little peak to see a hidden lake before starting. I added on a cross country hike to the biggest peak in the Wilderness after the hike.
Much more here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/russian-bingham-lake-and-russian-peak.html

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The #RussianWilderness. It's not very big, but packs a punch. I hadn't been and found my way from the south via the #PacificCrestTrail. For my 1st day of 3 #backpacking, one of the jewels of the area: Russian Lake.
The post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/russian-siphon-lake-russian-lake-and.html

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The 5th day #backpacking was the best. The greatest lakes and a downright pretty good valley made up the bulk of the day. Finished the day with a new view of another pretty good valley.
Much more here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/boulder-loop-mill-creek-lake-washbasin.html

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The 4th day #backpacking the #TrinityAlpsWilderness did have some burn at the start, but mostly was a day of lakes and explorations. I stopped by one of the Forest's designated special places (for #geology) even!

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There's still scattered burn and surreal twice burned areas on the third day backpacking, but there's also unburned and healthy after the burn areas. My plans had to morph a little and I got in tagging a peak right at the end!
The post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/07/boulder-loop-doe-lake-eagle-peak-and.html

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Day 2, the crazy burn. So much burn. Pockets of pristine creek and some nice wildflowers, but mostly burn. A tough day with half the trail really hard to find.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/07/boulder-loop-granite-lake.html

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Here's the first day (links to the rest are at the top of the post) of backpacking in the Trinity Alps on my own after doing the first week of trail work. A bit of burn, crazy burn, surreal twice burned, scattered burn, grand (5th) day, then back across burn. Even burn has its moments.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/07/boulder-loop-south-fork-lakes.html

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Just a few #landscape pictures from doing trail work in the Trinity Alps with the Bigfoot Trail Alliance. Five days of work on four trails, mostly in Klamath National Forest.

The posts start here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/07/bfta-trinity-alps-long-gulch-trail.html

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