This week's hike was at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which is California's oldest state park and so far one of my favorite trails of the season.
This hike is dedicated to everyone who donated since the last hike posting:
Andrea C, Angel I., and Diana F.
Our group took a shorter loop for this trip - starting at the park headquarters we took the Skyline to the Sea trail west to the Timms Creek trail, then cut north to the Sunset Trail.
At the turning point there was a fun log bridge across the creek. Lisa took a picture of us going across it, I'll post that here if I find it.
Both the Sunset and Skyline to the Sea trails go out to Berry Creek Falls -- and to the Sunset tent campgrounds..
"Home to the largest continuous stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco, the park consists of over 18,000 acres of old growth and recovering redwood forest, with mixed conifer, oaks, chaparral, and riparian habitats."
What I loved so much about this trail was that most of it was in the deep and cool forest (no walking around on hot, sweaty, and rocky fire trails). I wound up in the lead of the group for a lot of this hike and it was very easy to imagine myself being all alone, exploring this forest.
Also, there were a lot of interesting trail side features that broke up the hours of hiking. Often a huge tree was across the trail, and they'd cut a slice out of it wide enough to walk through.
There are also tons of fascinating hollowed out trees. I read that these were created by fires burning inside the tree - some of the trees are still alive.
At some point it would be fun to do a backpacking camping trip and run around and look at everything more closely.
This hike is dedicated to everyone who donated since the last hike posting:
Andrea C, Angel I., and Diana F.
Our group took a shorter loop for this trip - starting at the park headquarters we took the Skyline to the Sea trail west to the Timms Creek trail, then cut north to the Sunset Trail.
At the turning point there was a fun log bridge across the creek. Lisa took a picture of us going across it, I'll post that here if I find it.
Both the Sunset and Skyline to the Sea trails go out to Berry Creek Falls -- and to the Sunset tent campgrounds..
"Home to the largest continuous stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco, the park consists of over 18,000 acres of old growth and recovering redwood forest, with mixed conifer, oaks, chaparral, and riparian habitats."
What I loved so much about this trail was that most of it was in the deep and cool forest (no walking around on hot, sweaty, and rocky fire trails). I wound up in the lead of the group for a lot of this hike and it was very easy to imagine myself being all alone, exploring this forest.
Also, there were a lot of interesting trail side features that broke up the hours of hiking. Often a huge tree was across the trail, and they'd cut a slice out of it wide enough to walk through.
There are also tons of fascinating hollowed out trees. I read that these were created by fires burning inside the tree - some of the trees are still alive.
At some point it would be fun to do a backpacking camping trip and run around and look at everything more closely.
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