#sixriversnationalforest — Public Fediverse posts

In the West Salmon Mountains of Trinity Alps Wilderness, day 2 followed better trail, as we headed up to Horse Ridge Trail along Horse Trail Ridge, tagging Trinity Summit (Guard Station) and North Trinity Mountain along the way. It hardly ever lost us!

More details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/trinity-trinity-summit-and-horse-trail.html

#California #HumboldtCounty #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness #SalmonMountains
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger

This was just an overnight, but not a quick one, in the West Salmon Mountains of Trinity Alps Wilderness.

Day 1 was winding along Crogan Hole Trail before finding a way roughly along McKay Meadows and Tish Tang Ridge Trails, which could be in better shape.

For more information, check out: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/trinity-crogan-hole-and-tish-tang.html

#California #HumboldtCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness #SalmonMountains
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #outside #hike #mountains

[3/3] Day 3 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Finishing the circuit with two more named peaks to tag on the way. First Blue Slide by the side of the trail just before everything got dicey. Second Horsehead Mountain where three forests and three major watersheds meet.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-blue-slide-and-horsehead.html

#California #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #SixRiversNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilerness
#hiking #nature #landscape #outside #mountains #peakbagging #backpacking #hike #blogpost

[1/3] Yolla Bolly! This time backpacking the area of Shell Mountain for three days, although the plan kept morphing.

The first day, we didn't get far. We didn't get to the trailhead for the downed trees and we didn't get to the planned camp for the fact the newly selected trail connecting to the planned trail didn't actually exist.

The details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-north-fork-middle-eel.html

#California #MendocinoNationalForest #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityCounty #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #outside #mountains #backpacking

We headed out for a bunch of little hikes among the peaks of the Lassics, which tend to feature in the minds of the outdoorsy locals because they can be seen from so many places.
Many more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/08/hiking-lassics.html

#California #SixRiversNationalForest #MountLassicWilderness #HumboldtCounty #TrinityCounty
#publicLands #NationalForest #nature #landscape #hiking #dayhike #travel #hike #outside blogpost

Day 2 didn't go quite to plan, but it did touch 3 different national forests while wandering a canyon and eventually ending up at Raspberry Lake.

The details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/preston-raspberry-lake.html

#California #DelNorteCounty #SiskiyouCounty #SiskiyouWilderness #SixRiversNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #RogueRiverSiskiyouNationalForest

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #lake #burn

I headed out on a backpacking trip to the Preston Peak (high point of Siskiyou Wilderness) area. Day 1, well, that turned out to be a hiking day. The seasonal road closure 5.25 miles from the trailhead was still in effect.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/preston-sanger-lake.html

#California #DelNorteCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #SangerLake

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpaking

They call it the "green Trinities", but it's the Salmon Mountains and here's a few lakes and a peak on a short day hike among them.

The blog post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/north-trinity-mountain-waterdog-lake.html

#California #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness #HumboldtCounty

#dayhike #hiking #nature #SixRiversNF #landscape #outside #travel #hike #SalmonTrinityPrimitiveArea #snow #flowers #BloomScrolling #wildflowers #lakes

Taking on exploring a whole trail system so it can go on the map! It's not a very big one and I'd not been there and it made a good looping day hike past a bunch of lakes, so there might have been other motivations.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/red-mountain-lake-blue-lake-and-fish.html

#dayhike #hiking #exploring #hikeHumboldt #hikeCalifornia #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #California #HumboldtCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #SixRiversNF

The second day was heading up the mountain and into the snow. Lots of snow. A bit annoying, that snow.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/03/smith-to-summit-summit-valley.html

#California #DelNorteCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #SmithRiverNRA #SiskiyouWilderness #SouthKelseyTrail

#hiking #backpacking #nature #blog #wilderness #landscape #outside #forest #hike #travel

With a little encouragement, I got out to a short backpacking trip on an old trail. The first day was damp set up, but with plenty of trillium! Er, make that pseudotrillium!

All the info is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/03/smith-to-summit-smith-river.html

#California #SixRiversNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #DelNorteCounty #SmithRiverNRA #SouthKelseyTrail

#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #wilderness #forest#river #SouthForkSmithRiver #travel #hike #outside

The back again portion of the trip.
Details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/10/lowest-back-again.html

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #California #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #backpacking #overnight #river

Back to South Fork Trail, which I hiked 4 years ago. Determined to cross the ford! Which I did that much, at least. Um, yeah. Anyway.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/10/lowest-south-fork.html

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #California #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #river

One last little hike among the Lassics, going up Red Lassic, then stopping by some of the unique flora and fauna of the area. New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/red-lassic.html

#hiking #nature #California #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #landscape #Lassics #PNW #naturalwonders

#SmithRiversComplexfires #SRFSmithRiverComplex
#SmithRiversComplex #wildfire / #wildfires in the #sixriversnationalforest #DelNorteCounty #humboldtcounty #California

I struggled along what was once a good road to a removed fire lookout. This was the Mount Lassic Lookout, but it was actually on the side of Goat Hill with a view of Mount Lassic. Blog post here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/mount-lassic-lookout-and-goat-hill.html

#hiking #California #MountLassicWilderness #SixRiversNationalForest

Yes, I am about a month late in advertising this one...

One road open, one not, but getting to these seasonal ponds was a mix of #hike and thrash with a surprising number of violets found along the way.
New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/dry-lake-and-not-lake.html

#hiking #dayhike #California #HumboldtCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #MountLassicWilderness #lake #vernalPond #nature #landscape #butterfly #hikingCalifornia #LassicsFire2015

A hike in search of #wildflowers, so I may have gone a little overboard showing them. However, I was looking for one specific flower and none of them are it! The search comes with a nice peak.
New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/mount-lassic.html

#dayhike #hiking #SixRiversNationalForest #MountLassicWilderness #nature #landscape #bloomscrolling #California #HumboldtCounty #fritillary

Just a short hike to get to the highest point of the Lassics, an area of great botanical interest and more: new post at https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/black-lassic.html

#hiking #dayhike #SixRiversNationalForest #California #HumboldtCounty #TrinityCounty #nature #wildflowers #landscape #peakbagging

This loop may include Jeep trails, but it can only be completed on foot. I explored some ridges and met Mad River Rock. New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/mad-river-rock-and-devils-backbone.html

#hiking #TrinityCounty #hikingCalifornia #California #dayhike #nature #landscape #SixRiversNationalForest #DevilsBackbone #exploring #VanDuzenRiver #MadRiver #RuthLake

A little loop of trail featuring many lake views and plenty of benches to stop and take it in. New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/fir-cove-nature-trail.html

#nature #lake #RuthLake #hiking #dayhike #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #California #hikingCalifornia #norCal #norcalphotographer #landscape #landscapePhotography #thunderheads #forest #water

I had a shorter hike along a little stream with flowers and butterflies and the trickle of water and stabby grass seeds invading my shoes. Less said about that last, the better.
New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/clover-gulch.html

#hiking #dayhike #stream #SixRiversNationalForest #bloomscrolling #flowers #butterfly #nature #landscape #summer #aftertheburn (unfortunately)

It wasn't in the plan, but I was at the trailhead, so I took off on a short hike and kept on going on a longer and longer hike with an excellent peak bagged before turning back.
New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/boundary-trail-and-big-butte.html

#hiking #dayhike #MendocinoNationalForest #SixRiversNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness #California #mountains #landscape #nature #butterfly #BoundaryTrail #BigButte #lupine

I stopped by the extreme northwest corner of Yolla Bolly, a #Wilderness I've never visited before, and hiked the trails there in a loop visiting their namesakes. Fire almost 3 years before has changed the area, but there are still flowers and butterflies and springs and rolling hills. The new blog post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/blue-jay-mine-and-red-mountain.html

#hiking #landscape #nature #California #TrinityCounty #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness #SixRiversNationalForest #mine #meadow

A bunch of #butterflies found in a spot of great variety of #wildflowers on a recent #hike. They probably won't make it into the post advert, so here they are on their own while I work on my post.

#hiking #California #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #YollaBolly #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness #butterfly #wildlife #flowers #nature