[pct-l] California Coastal Trail Experience?

[mellowmarky at cox.net (Mark Wright)]

Buy these books:

Hiking the California Coastal Trail Volumes one and two
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/093943119X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0939431246

Volume 2 covers the coast from Oregon to Monterey and I found it useful  
on my Lost Coast trip. If you want to see pictures of my Lost Coast  
trip go here: http://www.abovecalifornia.com/pictures?mode=1&tripID=11   
If you're not familiar with the Lost Coast it is about a 60 mile  
section of coastline along northern Mendocino and southern Humboldt  
counties in the King Range and Sinkyone Wilderness. It is said to be  
the most remote coastline in California because it is so rugged. In  
fact, it is so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1 decided to  
avoid this section of coast and went inland here.

Also, you will need tide tables for every section of coastline you  
travel. The BLM has a map of the King Range you can buy that shows  
which sections need to be hiked during low tide. Any similar maps you  
can find for other sections would be quite useful. And I hesitate to  
bring this, but I'm pretty sure that bear canisters are required in the  
King Range and possibly other sections of the coast. The King Range Web  
site ( http://www.ca.blm.gov/arcata/king_range.html ) has a lot of  
broken links on it right now, but I'm pretty sure that its Bear Alert  
page said that canisters are required.


Mark

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On Nov 26, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Garret Christensen wrote:

> Hi.  I know it's not the PCT, but I'm just curious if
> anybody out there has any California Coastal Trail
> experience (specifically from SanFran to the Oregon
> Border).  I heard about the Wookie and Island Mama's
> hike this summer, and I thought it might be cool to
> spend a few weeks of it on during my Christmas break
> from school.  Anybody know of any resources or have
> any experience/knowledge to share off-list?
>
> thanks,
> Garret "the Onion" Christensen