Posted on 04/18/2022 11:34:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Looks nice, like bear country.
Crap
Don’t TELL them about these places
They’ll just show up and screw it all up like they did the BayArhhea
I’ve spent a lot of time in the triangle defined by Sierra City, Sierraville, and Graeagle. It is beautiful up there. Too bad it’s still in California.
Secession into Jefferson or Nevada is the right future for the Northern Sierra.
Trails once connected points on the map out of necessity.
Nowadays the idle NPC idiots create trails for their own amusement.
When I was young a trail was created by one person with a hatchet, often over a trail naturally created by wildlife. It was there for anyone to discover on their own to use as they might wish.
This wealthy conglomerate with non-profit 501(c) status and enriched by government grants at all levels, tax shelter donations and drives to dupe individuals into giving money to their schemes. Guess who these people vote for?
State of Jefferson territory.
Have you ever been to the "Lure Resort" in Downieville? It's a bunch of small cabins right on the river. There are shared showers and (as I recall) power in the cabins nor any kitchen. So you have a nice bed to sleep in, a roof over your head, and the river a few feet from your front door. It is a wonderful place!
We used to have family vacations on Lake Almanor in Chester. It's good to see it on this proposed trail map.
This item in the article is astonishing: "the Beckwourth Complex and Dixie fires burned about 272 miles of the proposed Lost Sierra Route.” -- that is almost HALF of the total planned route miles! Ugh.
My son and I drove to Idaho three weeks ago and driving through all the burned-out forests in Northern California starting around Lake Shasta is SO SO dismaying.
We had a record-setting 40 days above 90F last summer here in North Idaho. We are hoping this summer is more back to normal and the "smoke season" is short and mild.
I'll be back in the Bay Area tomorrow for a month. I hit the South Bay trails in February and logged 45 miles.
Graeagle is a wonderful spot. The Salmon Lakes just up the road are great, too. I remember canoeing there with our kids when they were small.
I remember a friend at work used to always have family vacations in Graeagle. We used to go up to Chester and rent a place on the peninsula jutting into Lake Almanor. That was back when California was at least semi-sane. I moved to CA in 1973 when Ronal Reagan was still the governor! I didn’t know at the time what a great man he was for the state. That was back when it was a SANE place to live.
Seems like that would be one of the largest motorized single track networks anywhere.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany.
What’s “lost” about it? That area is overrun with tourists, hikers, campers, hunters, ranchers, and townies.
Dad, in the 1910s was raised in Chester-Westwood-Lake Almanor.
40-50-60 years ago, it was pretty remote; last time we were there, about 20 years ago, a lot of the dirt roads had been paved. On the back roads from Paradise to Butte meadows (several housing developments where we used to camp & hunt), and on to Susanville, we had a lot of traffic.
“That area is overrun with tourists, hikers, campers, hunters, ranchers, and townies.”
Unlike the Lost Coast, which is truly out in the sticks.
And nobody is there.
Almost no paved roads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Coast
Been past Lost Coast many times on HWY-1, but never tried to actually visit it or the few tiny towns there.
(Un)Happy Camp is bustling civilization, comparatively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Camp,_California
Don’t TELL them about these places”
40 years ago here in the mountains of NC there were ‘secret’ swimming holes and waterfalls that very few people knew about and were great for getting away from crowds.
Now they are are listed on internet hiking sites with GPS directions and are packed with people.
Unlike the Lost Coast, which is truly out in the sticks. And nobody is there.”
Except for weed growers and cults.
14 Lost Sierra towns?
“Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.” - Yogi Berra................
Mark them on the maps with Deliverance avatars
Spread rumors that banjo playing cross eyed kids frequent them
and tell the HalfBacks to just keep on going back to Jersey
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