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Chalone Peak Trail (Pinnacles National Park, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn California, Pinnacles National Park, Strenuous Hikes2 Comments

Rising to 3,304 feet, Chalone Peak is the highest point in California’s Pinnacles National Park and a worthy challenge for peak-baggers who seek to brave the exposed sun and 2,000 feet in elevation gain to reach the summit. The Chalone Peak Trail juts off from the end of Bear Gulch Cave in the eastern section …

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Bear Gulch Cave – Rim Trail Loop (Pinnacles National Park, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn California, Moderate Hikes, Pinnacles National Park2 Comments

Sporting one of California’s finest talus caves and shoreline access to a picturesque, rock-hewn reservoir, the Bear Gulch Cave Trail is one of the most popular hikes in Pinnacles National Park. Here a jumble of boulders, so large and tightly-packed that it blankets the ground with darkness, forms subterranean passages home to a resident colony …

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