#yollabollymiddleeelwilderness — Public Fediverse posts

We passed an old fire lookout position on the way out, so there was more peakbagging to be had before leaving Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in Mendocino National Forest.

For more info, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-hammerhorn-mountain.html

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There were two more days of trail work. This time we worked up along the Minnie Lake Trail for one day and over to Solomon Peak Cutoff for the next. Both have challenging vanishing spots.

For more information, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-working-minnie-lake-trail-and.html

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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

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Our first two days of trail work were along Summit Trail with a bit of rain and cold and wind on the first day. It was miserable but the second day was very pleasant.

For more, check https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-working-summit-trail.html

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Bigfoot Trail Alliance (BFTA) has many trail work trips going again this summer and at the very last minute, I got in on the one around the far side of Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness. We had a moderate hike in, a bigger hike on our "rest" day, and some working in there too.

Here's where it starts, that moderate hike in. Just head over here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-getting-there.html for more.

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[2/3] Day 2 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Headed up to Buck Ridge and up the yolla bolly (snowy mountains, well, mountain) of Shell Mountain. They really should all be yolla bolly at the moment.

More is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-buck-ridge-and-shell.html

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[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

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Yolla Bolly! \o/

I feel like there was maybe more snow on it last year as we worked trail near North Yolla Bolly in May.

Plans kept changing as this short escapade developed, but it was ultimately for the better. Well, maybe not the first change. But everything else was for the better.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Next, the hike:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/black-rock-mountain-lookout.html
which visited the old Guard Station location and then climbed to the fire lookout location. Only one is still standing and none were entered.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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