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    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    A while back I started a thread for a Yellowstone trip for next week. As of right now that may not work out. I'm about an hour north of San Fransico at the moment and don't want to drive more than a day (12 hrs or so). I was really hoping to get a mountain trip in but most everything seems snowed under. Anybody have any great ideas?

    #1609296
    Bruce Tolley
    BPL Member

    @btolley

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    Have you considered the Snow Mtn Wilderness in the Mendocino National Forest?

    #1609300
    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    Thanks Bruce I don't know much about that wilderness any insider info I should know about?

    #1609303
    Jay Wilkerson
    BPL Member

    @creachen

    Locale: East Bay

    Its a straight forward hike but to be honest not that thrilling of a area..Check out the Mt Lassen area in Spring. Upper Mill Creek–I will be there on May 22-23.

    #1609312
    Bruce Tolley
    BPL Member

    @btolley

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    You can approach from Highway 101 or Highway 5. The road from 101 involves a ford if I recall correctly.

    The approach and hike itself is described in detail in Gary Suttle, California County Summits and there are some hikes described on the web and the NFS site.

    At one point the pavement ends on the Forest Service road on the Highway 5 side. I encountered a white out two years ago on Memorial Day Weekend which was lot of fun and challenged my navigation skills. If you can make it to one of the NFS offices, they have a topo map of the wilderness.

    You have to drive through an off road vehicle recreation area to get to the TH but I found once I was two miles from the trail head, I had the wilderness mostly to myself.

    There is often snow through June in the bowl beneath the two Snow Mountain peaks.

    #1609320
    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    Bruce
    Thanks for the help. Obviously I'll call the FS but off the top of your head would you expect to be able to climb the mountain or most of it at this time of year or is there too much snow?
    Jay
    I was assuming the Lassan area would have a lot of snow but I'll check it out.

    By the way it may be to early for it but do either of you know anything about the Trinity Alps?

    #1609328
    Bruce Tolley
    BPL Member

    @btolley

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    I agree with the post that Lassen is much more interesting but higher and 123 inches right now at the South Entrance according to the web site, although Manzanita Lake is reported free of snow.

    The snow collects in the bowl. Cannot say how much is there right now.
    Bruce

    #1609333
    Jay Wilkerson
    BPL Member

    @creachen

    Locale: East Bay

    I have been to the Trinity Alps several times over the years—There is some excellent hiking up there—There is still alot of snow in the Alps–Ken Thompson might chime in on the snow pack..Look in the trip reports under Trinity Alps…We had a BPL group up there this past October….

    -Jay

    PS Upper Mill Creek is in the foothills–no snow just wild flowers this time of year….

    #1609338
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    http://fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDfxMDT8MwRydLA1cj72BTn0AjAwjQL8h2VAQAlanblA!!/?ss=110514&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&cid=FSE_003741&navid=110000000000000&pnavid=null&position=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&ttype=recmain&pname=Shasta-Trinity%20National%20Forest-%20Recreation

    Use the link above and click on trail report

    #1609343
    David Carbiener
    BPL Member

    @hikingdave

    Locale: Northern California

    The last I read the Trinities had 170% of normal snow pack. This might be in the trail report Ken was referencing. The recent storms that came through Northern California had snow levels easily down to 3,000 feet. I suspect all the good trailheads are buried under snow. If snow is your thing then the Trinities will be a blast; otherwise we will have to wait a month or so.

    #1609348
    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    Thanks yall sounds like I need to make some calls to the FS tomorrow. I'm leaning towards Snow Mountain just because its closer and maybe do the Trinity Alps or Lassen at a later date. I'll see if I can call though and find out.

    #1609403
    David Lutz
    Member

    @davidlutz

    Locale: Bay Area

    I haven't been to either of these places, but I have done some research on the Yolla Bolly Wilderness just north of the Snow Mountain Wilderness.

    In my opinion, the Yolla Bolly seems a little nicer. It's remote, I think it's about a 2 hour drive on fire roads to the trailhead.

    I spoke to a ranger last week and the trailheads were covered in snow. But, since the elevations are low, it should melt pretty quick.

    You might check it out.

    #1609422
    Matt Mioduszewski
    BPL Member

    @water-2

    Locale: pacific nw

    Not sure about snow issues but in a recent NorCal redwood trip we did a quick over-nighter in the siskiyous and I was mightily impressed with the plant, geology, and topography variety found in the area (around Preston Peak–trailheads are off of 199 NW of crescent city). The rock was a variety of colors/minerals and quite different than the typical cascade 'lava' rock I'm use to. Then there are the trees, including some of the largest pine cones in the world (i think), I found it generally open like the east side of the cascades, which I appreciate. And the topography reminded me of the appalachians in size but with way more bare rock, open country, and cliffs than the majority of the appalachians (white mnts, main, areas of gsmnp withstanding)

    not sure about snow there but it might be worth checking out. Klamath national forest. definitely not busy, no worry about people.

    #1611747
    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    Thanks for all the ideas yall. I called the FS and ended up going to the Snow Mountain Wilderness. I did one day hike and than came back and did an overnighter. There was still a lot of snow above about 6000 feet but I found a perfect campsite and had a lot of fun. I'll try and post a trip report soon.
    Thanks a lot.
    Luke

    #1611799
    David Lutz
    Member

    @davidlutz

    Locale: Bay Area

    Nice…….look forward to hearing more about that area….

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