[pct-l] The Trans PCT Challenge-Kelsey Trail

[losthiker at sisqtel.net (Deems)]

Kelsey Trail:
Built in 1851by a retired Army Officer Kelsey and Chinese workers as a 200 
mile route to deliver goods from the port of Crescent City to the Yreka area 
gold fields. The last pack train went over it in 1909. I've hiked some of 
it, and it has mostly disappeared under logging roads, or healed back into 
the forest, but some of it exists in the Siskiyou and Marble Mtn Wilderness 
areas. The section that approaches the PCT comes in from the east out of 
Kelsey creek that flows into the Scott River. It comes up into the Paradise 
Lake cirque follows the east face of King's Castle to the Turk Lake saddle, 
and then turns down into the Bear Lake/creek canyon and goes west across 
many ridges to the Klamath River area. It crossed the Klamath  at Cottage 
Grove/Swillup Creek at a place where it get's very broad and shallow so the 
horses could easily walk across. So in one small section of the Marbles, the 
PCT was built in 1851.
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Where does the "old  Kelsey  Trail" intersect the current PCT and would we
be able to spot it?

Dr Bob

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> Subject: Re: [pct-l] The Trans PCT Challenge
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> _Tortoise73 at charter.net_ (mailto:Tortoise73 at charter.net)   writes:
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> Up here  in fall northern California, we are working on restoring the old
> Kelsey  Trail which will run from Crescent City up to the PCT and perhaps
> beyond.  I'm not up on all the details. And the Pacific Coast Trail
> passes right  through Crescent City so one could make a California  loop.
>