Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, August 2024 Well, better late than never? We are now halfway into 2025, but, alas, work and other priorities produced a heavy backlog of blog posts from hikes in 2024 that I was only able to complete in the past few months. Yet the tradition of looking back on the …
Founders' Grove Nature Trail, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, June 2024 A scenic centerpiece of Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Founders’ Grove is the most popular redwood stand in the park and easily explored on a well-trodden ½-mile loop trail. The most famous attraction is, of course, the 364-foot Founders’ Tree, which was once thought to be …
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Drury-Chaney Loop, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, June 2024 Situated in the northern reaches of California’s Humboldt Redwoods State Park, the level and easy Drury-Chaney Loop spends its entirety in a beautiful old growth redwood forest adorned with ferns and redwood sorrel. These are not the largest coastal redwoods in the area (those are found further …
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Bull Creek Flats Trail, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, June 2024 Outside of iconic Redwood National Park, about an hour and a half north on Highway 101, there is perhaps no better place in the world to view California coast redwoods than Humboldt Redwoods State Park, a massive, 53,000-acre tract with about 17,000 acres of old-growth …
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