Show threadValerie NortonMar 16

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

Brad MarstonJan 10

Fire is now part of nearly every step along the #BigfootTrail

https://www.bigfoottrail.org/2026/01/fire-on-the-bigfoot-trail/?mc_cid=1f275f3325&mc_eid=ec18b05454

Fire on the Bigfoot Trail: Reading the Landscape Through Flame and Forest

Along the spine of the Klamath Mountains, the Bigfoot Trail winds for 360 miles from the oak woodlands of the Mendocino National Forest to the fog-washed

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Brad MarstonNov 8
Honored to be selected by the #BigfootTrail Alliance as 2025 volunteer of the year. https://www.bigfoottrail.org/podcast/honoring-our-2025-volunteer-of-the-year-dr-brad-marston/
Honoring Our 2025 Volunteer of the Year, Dr. Brad Marston

Celebrate Dr. Brad Marston, the Bigfoot Trail Alliance’s 2025 Volunteer of the Year, as he shares his journey as a devoted trail steward.

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Show threadValerie NortonSep 26, 2025

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

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #volunteering #trailwork #publiclands #NRT #BigfootTrail

Show threadValerie NortonSep 26, 2025

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

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #trailwork #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Show threadValerie NortonSep 26, 2025

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

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Valerie NortonSep 26, 2025

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

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #volunteering #volunteer #BigfootTrail #NRT

Valerie NortonJul 4, 2025

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

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #BigfootTrail #volunteering #YollaBolly #TrinityNF #nature #landscape #trailwork #travel #landscape

Humboldt Trail

Trinity National Forest. Two days of trail work fighting whitethorn ceanothus and finding many flowers.

Valerie NortonJun 22, 2025

Foxtail pines around the very top of Mendocino National Forest. This was the rest day hike while working on the #BigfootTrail. This part is along the Ides Cove National Recreation Trail and it looks a lot more like an NRT ought to now, too. (And it'll likely get even better this week.)

#volunteer #silentSunday

Brad MarstonMay 5, 2025
We cleared Whitethorn Ceanothus from the #BigfootTrail in the northern Yolla Bolly wilderness. The California Conservation Corp joined us on Friday. They may have wondered if a judge had sentenced us to community service in the hot sun!