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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Trinity Alps

"The 517,000-acre Trinity Alps Wilderness is the second largest designated wilderness in California and spans three national forest boundaries. Laced with trails, rivers, forests, and peaks, this is one wilderness where you can travel for weeks and never exhaust all the possible trails."  So says The Gorp Guide of The Away Network.

Trails.com provides a link to over 134 hiking trails in the Trinity Alps.  SummitPost.org has information on the individual mountains (pdf format, html link), and includes an overview map of the trailheads.  The USDA's Forest Service provides lots of info on the Shasta-Trinitiy National Forest, including the Road and Trail Report (updated weekly) on this page of Useful Links.  Also available online are detailed maps, of both the East and West, of Shasta-Trinity.

Bon Voyage, Donna and Ben! May the mountains be kind to you, the weather be right, and the vistas be good!!