valhikes, Having not done a real hike since November, it seemed the perfect time to launch myself on ~40 miles over 3 days backpacking.
Day 1 started in old growth redwoods, passed remains of homesteading, then climbed past a selection of trees to one of the old growth redwood backpacking camps.
New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/04/grasshopper-homestead-and-baxter-to.html
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Western fairy slippers (Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis). Two flowers of the orchid family stand facing the other direction at the foot of a conifer in forest duff. The flowers have purple petals sticking up like some sort of headdress. A rounded petal group sticks down, purple on the outside and striped red toward the top on the inside, big dots toward the bottom. Oh, and hairs. No leaves are visible below the flowers.
Starting up Baxter Trail at Baxter Environmental Camp. Big trees on either side of a road blocked with bollards and already shrinking due to only being legal as a trail now. More big tees behind.
Outhouse for scale! Arriving at Whiskey Flat Trail Camp. Trees almost as wide as the road passing between them rise well past the top of the portrait photograph. Tucked just behind one is an outhouse. More trees fill in the rest of the space.
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