Date Hiked: November 25, 2023
General Condition: Difficult (brushy and/or many deadfalls, faint tread)

A Big Sur Trailmap user reports two slides south of Buckskin Flat, the second one large enough that he lost the trail and turned around.

Jack

Wow. What a wonderful piece of work! And great report. So nice to know the historic Lottie Potrero Trail lives on (roughly following the route used by the 1769 Potrero Expedition). I can add to what already appears on previous VWA postings: () A link to downloading the Lottie Potrero Trail route GPX...

Not being able to hike, decided to drive down Old Coast Road since Monterey County has recently officially opened it again after closure due to winter rains. Road was in excellent shape, the best I've ever seen, suitable even for relatively low clearance vehicles. Several storm drains appear to be n...

Monterey County has now officially "opened" Old Coast Road

Jack

In case you'd not heard, the USFS has created a new forest order superceding the one having a June 13 expiration date, this one with expiration date July 24. Is essentially same as previous except for omission of two Day Use Areas (Pfeiffer Beach and Mill Creek) and the Milpitas Road repair closure....

Does anyone have some rule-of-thumb relationship between the Big Sur River height measurement and the difficulty of crossing at Sykes?? Awhile back, motivated by this year's rains, I added a button sending clickers to a graph of Big Sur River height on my Big Sur Trailmap homepage. Many more people ...

Date Hiked: May 15, 2023 General Condition: Impassable (completely overgrown or tread obliterated) Following is extract from trail report sent to me directly, am posting here for other hikers - bottom line, based on this and other reports, hikers are unable to follow trail so resorting to bushwhack...

Two campgrounds in the southern Los Padres NF have just been opened, suggesting USFS is willing to make changes prior to their announced March 24 closure termination.

Jack

Their press release provides the rationale

Press Release

Jack

Had to laugh when I saw the map he displayed when deciding not to attempt going to Cook Spring Camp for his water. Brought back memories. That is the USFS map I tried to follow when I was new to the Ventana and tried to hike to Cook Spring Camp. CookSpring-USFS-annotated.jpg The round-about trail it...