#marblemountainwilderness — Public Fediverse posts

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

The Pacific Crest Trail was looking a lot easier to travel as we left than when we passed the day before.
#footpathFriday

I finished up another set of backpacking posts, but am busy so might not get to advertising them before wandering off to more adventure.

#California #SiskiyouCounty #MarbleMountainWilderness #KlamathNationalForest #PCT #PacificCrestTrail

Next on the backpacking trip, a visit to Upper Wright Lake before heading out again.

For more, meander over to: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/09/below-boulder-wright-lakes.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #LowerWrightLake #UpperWrightLake
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #lakes #mountains #blogpost

An overnight backpacking trip to lakes near Boulder Peak, the high point of Marble Mountain Wilderness. First a visit to Deep Lake on the way to Lower Wright Lake.

For more info, meander over here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/09/below-boulder-deep-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #DeepLake #LowerWrightLake #UpperWrightLake #BoulderPeak
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #lakes #mountains #blogpost

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

#hiking #backpacking #MarbleMountainWilderness #KlamathNF #KlamathNationalForest #publicLands

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

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #California #mountains #SiskiyouCounty #hike #California #fire #SkyHighValley #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KlamathNF #shortenedtrip

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

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #KlamathNF #volunteering #trailwork #MarbleMountainWilderness
#volunteer

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

#hiking #backpacking #California #MarbleMountainWilderness #KlamathNF #waterfall #landscape #backcountry #WaterfallWednesday #nature #mountains

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

Trail work with the Bigfoot Trail Alliance was cut short after the 2AM lightning storm that has apparently lit off 19 fires in the #MarbleMountainWilderness including this one among the Sky High Lakes. The air was actually clearer in the basin even though it had it's own smoke source.

#hiking #volunteering #fire #wildfire #KlamathNationalForest #norcal #California

Now having some #SitClub time on Boulder Peak, the high point of the #MarbleMountainWilderness. The namesake of the wilderness is the shocking white out there.

#hiking #peakbagging #nature #landscape #mountains

Going all #SitClub at the top of Etna Mountain (not to be confused with Mount Etna) with the #RussianWilderness and #MarbleMountainWilderness and a bit of #TrinityAlpsWilderness and #SiskiyouWilderness all in view. The #PCT is busy in both directions right now, but it gets quiet quickly with the littlest turn off. Oh, yeah, #MountShastaWilderness too. #mountains #California