Redwood National Park California

2020 ~ Adventures with The LovedOne

2020-12-312022-01-31Posted in Arizona, Hiking, Nevada, Oregon Coast, Other Adventures, Sierra Nevada (California), Southern Oregon, U.S. National Parks & MonumentsTagged Crater Lake National Park, Day Hiking, Death Valley National Park, Hiking, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas Nevada, Oregon Coast, Redwood National Park California, Southern Oregon, Tucson Arizona, Yosemite Wilderness California6 Comments

Oh, 2020. You seemed so nice when we first met. You were fun for two months, then you turned ugly. Real ugly. A plague and a recession and wildfires and an election and continuing drought. Yes sir, you threw quite a bit of hurt at us! Yes you did! But we survived. And The LovedOne remained photogenic while social distancing from others kept her within camera range.

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Hidden Beach (Redwood National Park) 20-Oct-2020

2020-10-202020-10-23Posted in Hiking, Northern California, U.S. National Parks & MonumentsTagged California Coastal Trail, Crescent City California, Day Hiking, Hidden Beach California, Hiking, Klamath River California, Northern California, Redwood National Park California2 Comments

Hidden Beach sits within Redwood National Park along the California coast some 15 or so miles south of Crescent City. As its name implies, it’s only accessible by trail. One of these starts near the Trees of Mystery parking lot and the other – part of the California Coastal Trail – from the Lagoon Creek Picnic Area off Highway 101. Having just visited the Trees, we elected to start from the picnic area. After passing the beach, the Coastal Trail continues on to the drive-in Klamath Overlook (which gives you a view of the mouth of the Klamath River). So our plan became to hike out-and-back to the overlook (or near it), visiting the beach along the way.

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Trees of Mystery (Klamath, California) 19-Oct-2020

2020-10-192021-08-29Posted in Northern California, Other AdventuresTagged Crescent City California, Northern California, Redwood National Park California, Redwoods, Trees of Mystery California

My parents were very hard workers; not given much to frivolous (in their eyes) expenditures. Exceptions could be made (rarely) for Disneyland. But visits to smaller kitschy tourist attractions, no matter how iconic, were off the table. And certainly we were not going to drive the length of California to see some trees, regardless of their degree of mysteriousness. So a visit to the Trees of Mystery, a small attraction in the redwoods just south of Crescent City, California had to wait its turn. And wait and wait and wait. But, past a certain point, this waiting wasn’t on my parents. Although I must have driven past it numerous times over the years, I had other places to go and no time for a tourist trap. Well times change (don’t they ever!). Now I had some time and not a lot of other places to go. So we started a short hiking trip to the coast with a long delayed visit to the Trees of Mystery.

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