Humboldt Redwoods State Park (pink, red, red-orange lines, Click for map) DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 I decided the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day was to launch myself on a ...
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Westhaven Click for map As I came down Trinidad Head, I spotted the neighborhood trail that comes down off Van Wycke Street to the harbor in a very short but lovely length. It reminded me of some...
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California Coastal National Monument Click for map Did you know the Bureau of Land Management also does Junior Ranger programs? In the case of the Trinidad Head Lighthouse, there is both a tradit...
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Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Click for map I headed out to the marsh with the tide on its way out and a small hope of maybe recording a few local birds in a non-bird feeder scenario. The l...
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Humboldt Coastal Nature Center Manila Dunes Recreation Area Samoa Dunes and Wetlands Conservation Area Click for full screen map The dunes are about to explode with bright flowers. It's getting s...
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McKay Community Forest I wanted to have a hike in the McKay Community Forest focusing on those pieces that are actually within it at the north end. There would be no crossing over the creek to th...
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McKinleyville City Park (map link) McKinleyville closed escrow on their 599 acre community forest on 31 January and McKinleyville Community Services District, in whose hands that ownership and op...
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Arcata Community Forest (map link) I decided it was time to take a lap with the camera to show off the flowers. They start in January, some of them only having taken a few months off. They haven'...
Eureka City Parks (map link) With a second day of sunshine, I decided to check out the trail extension along what will, one day, be a complete Humboldt Bay Trail. This bit has been referred to as...
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Clam Beach County Park Little River State Beach (map link) I decided the place I wanted to go for this window of sunshine between the rain was Little River State Beach, which I previously visited...
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McKinleyville City Parks and Mad River Bluffs (map link) As I've compiled the yearly hike list and map, I can't help but notice there's been a distinct lack of interest in presenting much local. ...
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Ryan Creek; McKay Community Forest: Jan 1 Hammond Trail; McKinleyville Land Trust and parks: Jan 26 Iaqua Buttes Lookout; Arcata BLM: Feb 15 Beith Creek in flower and snow...
Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) I passed right by Grimes Point on the way out to see the annular eclipse, which quite definitively closes my circle through Nevada that started with the Pon...
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Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) The sun came up leaving my apparently exposed camp in the shadow of the unnamed bulk north of Buller Mountain. I got to wishing this Trail Sense app didn't ...
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) I stopped by the Mineral County Library in Hawthorne to do a few things on the web. The stop lasted a bit longer than expec...
Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) The bit of geocaching at the mining areas on the way up to Mable Mountain seemed quite successful, so I set out to find a couple more before stopping by the...
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Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) I headed down the good road from camp to another decaying road to hike the high point of the Garfield Hills. I thought I might go up that road far enough to...
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Stillwater Field Office BLM (map link) If I could figure out a way to make permanent travel work, I'd have turned south to finish wiggling around Nevada. I've not, so I turned north to finish cir...
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Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) I got a late start because, well, it's cold out there. I don't particularly want to deal with the part of the day that's below 20°F, quite frankly. A south fa...
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Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) I had looked out at the colorful mountains and thought "I want to go there" and then gone off to some mountains that turned out to be a bit south of the ones I...
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Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) "The Crater" proclaims the map as if, although there may be others around, there's certainly none of this stature. I left my camp just north of (or maybe withi...
Tonopah Field Office BLM (Click here for the locaiton.) On my way through, I stopped in Silver Peak. The cemetery is very cute with each site picked out in rocks. Someone seems to have added a hu...
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Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) My plan for the day was an out and back to Silver Peak, a little over 3.5 miles distant for the crow. For myself as a land bound creature, it would involve som...
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Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) My initial plans for a western approach to the high point of Rhyolite Ridge may have been foiled (perhaps by my own timidity), but I could still find a way up ...
Tonopah Field Office BLM (map link) Corral, it says. Cave Spring, it says. Ruins, it says. There's a couple prospects and a building marked too. Okay map, I thought, we can stop there and see wha...