Green Springs Mountain Loop – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Little Hyatt Loop (Cascade-Siskiyou NM) 12-Sep-2021

2021-09-122021-09-13Posted in Hiking, Southern OregonTagged BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Day Hiking, Green Springs Mountain Loop, Hiking, Little Hyatt Lake Oregon, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Southern Oregon

The fires to the north and south of us are still burning but with less vigor. Magic sky water is predicted for later this week. If it arrives, it will (hopefully) hasten the end of what has been a truly nasty fire season here and in Northern California. Many of these fires were lightning caused. That’s unwanted but natural. But the cause of the River Complex Fire – which burned across trails we’ve enjoyed in the northern Trinity Alps 😢 – has been traced to an untended campfire. A CAMPFIRE! What kind of thoughtless idiot lights a campfire on a windy red flag day during a drought?! 🤬 Human stupidity seems to be our only infinitely renewable resource. 🤪

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Green Springs Mountain (Cascade-Siskiyou NM) 06-Jan-2018

2018-01-062022-01-30Posted in Hiking (Bike Assist), Southern Oregon, U.S. National Parks & MonumentsTagged Ashland Oregon, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Day Hiking, Green Springs Mountain Loop, Hiking, Hyatt Reservoir Oregon, Little Hyatt Lake Oregon, Oregon, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Southern Oregon2 Comments

By all rights, the easy but scenic Green Springs Mountain Loop Trail, which is now within the expanded Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, should be under snow. But it’s not. Which meant that I could include it as part of a bike-assisted dirt hike from Green Springs Summit on Highway 66 to East Hyatt Lake Road near Hyatt Lake. The hardest part of this hike was convincing myself to leave the house into a cold, zero-visibility fog secure in the perhaps foolish belief that there was sunlight up there somewhere. The dark and fog were too much for The LovedOne, who buried yet more deeply under the covers and mumbled something about don’t disturb the cat on your way out. Not that the cat has evidenced any interest in going hiking, ever. 🙄

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