Showing posts with label cache creek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cache creek. Show all posts
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Cache Creek Wilderness Loop
Trail map. Roughly 20 mile loop. Lots of bushwacking and route finding.
The beginning of the trail provides great views out to Fiske Peak and the Cortina Ridge.
I recently watched a documentary about "Umbrellas"--the massive landscape art project that Christo put up in California and Japan in the early 1990s. These trees reminded me of those umbrellas.
This is where the trail goes from a peaceful walk in the oak groves to an exposed march down a spur ridge into Cache Creek.
If you look closely you can see the trail winding its way down the ridge all the way into Cache Creek.
First view of water.
Ropy tree.
The wilderness.
The beginning of the trail provides great views out to Fiske Peak and the Cortina Ridge.
I recently watched a documentary about "Umbrellas"--the massive landscape art project that Christo put up in California and Japan in the early 1990s. These trees reminded me of those umbrellas.
This is where the trail goes from a peaceful walk in the oak groves to an exposed march down a spur ridge into Cache Creek.
If you look closely you can see the trail winding its way down the ridge all the way into Cache Creek.
First view of water.
Ropy tree.
The wilderness.
Cache Creek Wildlife. Wow.
First I saw these...
...and an hour later, this. (There is a large, brown, black bear grazing on the beach. Click on the pic for a bigger view.)
I watched him poke around for awhile.
The fact that you can still see a bear in its natural habitat, only 60 miles directly north of San Francisco is pretty cool really.
Day 2 - Cache Creek Wilderness
Camp. Drying out.
Morning on the river.
This is a very remote section of Cache Creek. What little trail there is is overgrown and uncooperative. Most of the hike is either walking in the river or bushwacking through thorn bushes and river reeds. I Loved it.
The last riverside stop before hiking out of the canyon up to Cache Creek Ridge.
Morning on the river.
This is a very remote section of Cache Creek. What little trail there is is overgrown and uncooperative. Most of the hike is either walking in the river or bushwacking through thorn bushes and river reeds. I Loved it.
The last riverside stop before hiking out of the canyon up to Cache Creek Ridge.
Cache Creek Ridge Trail
Looking down into Cache Creek from near the ridge.
There are some great oak trees up here.
Abondoned bulldozer.
Some portions of the trail are like walking through a park.
From the top of this point I could see both Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta which is pretty amazing considering they are over 100 miles away as the bird flies and that in order to see them you have to look out over the Central Valley which is almost always covered in haze and pollution.
Mt.Shasta from 170 miles away.
Mt. Lassen from 115 miles away.
Haven't seen one of these in awhile. Dogs love stock tanks.
Trail view.
Kennedy Flats from above. My campsite was down there somewhere.
Long and straight trail up Cache Creek ridge after Dunfield Flats.
There are some great oak trees up here.
Abondoned bulldozer.
Some portions of the trail are like walking through a park.
From the top of this point I could see both Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta which is pretty amazing considering they are over 100 miles away as the bird flies and that in order to see them you have to look out over the Central Valley which is almost always covered in haze and pollution.
Mt.Shasta from 170 miles away.
Mt. Lassen from 115 miles away.
Haven't seen one of these in awhile. Dogs love stock tanks.
Trail view.
Kennedy Flats from above. My campsite was down there somewhere.
Long and straight trail up Cache Creek ridge after Dunfield Flats.
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