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

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

I've also hiked a few miles of the old Kelsey Trail just a little east 
of Crescent City.

How much of the Kelsey Trail is actually doable now I have no idea.

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Deems wrote:
> 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.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Where does the "old  Kelsey  Trail" intersect the current PCT and would we
> be able to spot it?
> 
> Dr Bob
> 
>>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] The Trans PCT Challenge
>>
>>
>> _Tortoise73 at charter.net_ (mailto:Tortoise73 at charter.net)   writes:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
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