Day three saw more wildflowers (and a few rain drops) on the way out again:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/04/wooley-salmon.html
*Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California
#hiking #backpacking #KlamathNF #California #publicLands #PNW
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
Delightful wildflowers and snowy mountains in the distance on the hike into Wooley Creek:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/04/wooley-deer-lick-creek.html
*Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, California
I had a lovely hike up to the camp for another week of trail work (well, 4 days planned for actually working) heading up Canyon Creek in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of Kamath National Forest.
The whole story is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/big-elk-canyon-creek.html
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #California #mountains #KlamathNF #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #volunteering #wilderness #trailwork #trail #backpacking #wildlife #toad #burned #CanyonCreek #MarbleMountain
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
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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
The second day included bagging of Boulder Peak, the high point of the entire Marble Mountain Wilderness. Then I took a different way down through Second Valley.
The blog post is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/boulder-boulder-peak-and-second-valley.html
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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.
3rd and final day at the north end of the Russian Wilderness: A morning visit to Albert Lake, then a little extra PCT time before returning to the car on the PCT the other direction.
For a whole lot more: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/08/etna-albert-lake-and-pacific-crest-trail.html
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Day 2 around the north end of the Russian Wilderness: Tagging the top of Etna Mountain and then stopping by Meeks Meadow Lake and Smith Lake (by trail that isn't) and finally Paynes Lake.
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #California #peakbagger #peakbagging #mountains #SiskiyouCounty #RussianWilderness #KlamathNationalForest #KlamathNF #newt #wildlife #lakes #PaynesLake #RuffeyLakes #MeeksMeadowLake #SmithLake #PNW #PCT
Valerie Norton
Valerie Norton
