Date Hiked: June 10, 2023
General Condition: Passable (some brush and/or deadfalls, tread evident)

I went up Cone Peak from the Kirk Creek Trailhead on 6/10/2023.

The trail has a bit of overgrown chamise in the first few miles that is about shin to knee high that wasn't too problematic but ...

Date Hiked: June 10, 2023
General Condition: Passable (some brush and/or deadfalls, tread evident)

I went up Cone Peak from the Kirk Creek Trailhead on 6/10/2023.

The trail has a bit of overgrown chamise in the first few miles that is about shin to knee high that wasn't too problematic but ...

Date Hiked: June 10, 2023
General Condition: Passable (some brush and/or deadfalls, tread evident)

I went up Cone Peak from the Kirk Creek Trailhead on 6/10/2023.

The trail has a bit of overgrown chamise in the first few miles that is about shin to knee high that wasn't too problematic but ...

Date Hiked: May 21, 2023
General Condition: Passable (some brush and/or deadfalls, tread evident)

Faint Tread/Tread Evident. Went back out realized my mistake from the weekend before and did a 17.5 mile loop going up Baldwin Ranch Road, down the Murray Mine Track, and up to Dutra Flat. I took San ...

Date Hiked: May 14, 2023
General Condition: Passable (some brush and/or deadfalls, tread evident)

I was briefly on the San Carpoforo Trail between the saddle that separates the San Carpoforo drainage from the Salmon Creek drainage beyond Dutra Camp and the old homestead a little ways. The trail ...

An Ode to Pine Ridge Trail

It was raining all day when I pulled into the parking lot at the Big Sur Station. It was late in the afternoon on the shortest day of the year. The smell of the wet, loamy earth and redwood became ubiquitous. The smell of a wet forest is always unique – and the smell of ...

I intend to include a few details here when I'm done.
I have done a couple of backpacking trips with groups and by myself in the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness.
A women recently completed the Condor Trail, even more impressive.

Thanks for the info.

I will not be going to Vado Camp. I will be going from Bottcher's Gap to VDC, down Puerto Suello Trail to the Carmel River Trail. From the Carmel River Trail I will make my way to Pine Ridge Trail from either Bear Basin connector or to Divide Camp. Then it's either Black cone ...

Hello
What are the options for extended parking at Bottcher's Gap?
I was looking at the Forest Service website and it mentions there is a $35 Annual Day Use Parking Pass but on the website for the passes it appears there is no longer a $35 option.
There is a $10/day option but that seems steep.

I ...

Seems like LNT is a hot topic - but curious who has been practicing the use of human waste bags (IE: wag bags / reststop 2 bag) at Sykes? I haven't been yet but have heard rumors of human feces piles left without any sort of burial. I don't know if it's just to deter people, but apparently it is in ...