[pct-l] Hat Creek Rim

[Trekker4 at aol.com]

Or, you could get lucky, as I did, and enjoy it on an 80 degree day! Plenty 
 of places to camp, basically on the whole trail; always found something, 
even on  the 5% of nites I pitched a tent, for just me or my large footprint 
Lunar  Solo.
 
Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen, and...
Naturalized Citizen - Republic  of Texas

"Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says,  'See, if it 
wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' " -- Harry Browne

"If you  think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it 
costs when its  free." -- P J O'Rourke



In a message dated 5/30/2010 6:07:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
steeleye at wildblue.net writes:

Good  afternoon, Blue Butterfly,

I elected to leave Firefly’s place at Old  Station mid-afternoon with the
idea to climb up onto the rim in the  evening’s cool, camp for the night,
then continue hiking in the morning’s  cool.  Just atop the rim there is a
water cache near the Hwy-44 rest  stop/observation point that’s maintained 
by
Firefly but I didn’t have to  use any of that water because I encountered a
big crew of wildland  firefighters at the rest stop and in exchange for
hiker-stories they  offered me all the water I wanted to drink and carry.  A
few miles  further on I camped in the sagebrush a short distance off the
trail.   There was lots of cattle – and cow pies – all across the Rim, but 
I
could  have camped at any of hundreds of places; it’s like much like any of
the  semi-arid rangeland in the west.



After Cache-22, and after  dropping off the Rim, the brush was a bit thick
for a few miles, but after  that the only camping limitation was further on
as a result of private  ownership.



I enjoyed that section.  It was 4 July when I  crossed -- and it was hot --
but nowhere near  oppressive.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was  the PCT –  1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On  Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Linda Bakkar <lbakkar at hotmail.com>  wrote:

>
> In my planning, I am trying to find possible camp  locations along the
> section I will be hiking.  Where along the  section from Old Station to
> Burney Falls State Park can I camp?   (Hat Creek Rim area)  I know there 
are
> private lands as you come  down toward Burney Falls, but I am not sure 
where
> they begin.  I  also know that there is a long, waterless section along 
the
> rim.   It looks like there are no good camping areas along the rim,  
either.
>  I know I cannot hike 45 or 46 miles in one day.   Does anyone who has 
hiked
> the rim have a suggestion for me?   Thanks!
>
>
>
> Blue Butterfly
>
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