Valerie Valeraaaa

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[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Day 2 followed better trail. It hardly ever lost us! As we headed up to Horse Ridge Trail along Horse Trail Ridge, tagging Trinity Summit (Guard Station) and North Trinity Mountain along the way.
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#hiking #backpacking #SixRiversNF #peakbagging

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Just an overnight, but not a quick one, in the West Salmon Mountains of Trinity Alps Wilderness.
Day 1 was winding along Crogan Hole Trail before finding a way roughly along McKay Meadows and Tish Tang Ridge Trails, which could be in better shape.
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[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

3rd day: Heading out again with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.
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#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #PCT #California #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

2nd day: Heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination.
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#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #PCT #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Day 3 (final): Finishing the circuit with two more peaks to tag on the way: https://t.co/TQZa45UM7q

#MendocinoNF #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness #California #hiking #backpacking #blogpost #nature #landscape #outside

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Yolla Bolly! Backpacking around Shell Mountain. The first day, we didn't get far. Wrong trailhead due to downed trees. The connecting trail didn't actually exist, so off to a different camp than planned.
day 1: https://t.co/TbeNJlrQFS
#hiking #backpacking #MendocinoNF #YollaBolly

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Day 2: Headed up to Buck Ridge and up the yolla bolly (snowy mountains, well, mountain) of Shell Mountain. They should all be yolla bolly at the moment, but they're not. https://t.co/oWSqXVYzWR
#hiking #backpacking #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness #nature #outside

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Just a little hike on shifting ground under shifting weather at the local National Natural Landmark:
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#hiking #dayhike #nature #sanddunes #HumboldtBay #landscape #NationalWildlifeRefuge

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Got in a little bit of snowshoeing on a day hike out to see the canyon along Swift Creek, a popular Trinity Alps Wilderness location in the summer, and finally check around an old cabin.

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#hiking #showshoeing #dayhike #nature #outside #walking

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

3rd and last day, we explored the local area a little more before hiking out via the Pacific Crest Trail, the more common route. I liked Deadfall Lake Trail better.
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#hiking #backpacking #ShastaNationalForest #PCT #nature #landscape #California

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

One last trip from 2025: Up Mount Eddy, tallest of the coastal ranges, in the mild early December. The 1st day was checking out all the Deadfall Lakes before selecting a camp site for the next two nights.
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#hiking #backpacking #peakbagging #hikingCalifornia

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

2nd day, we headed up Mount Eddy itself, then wandered the trails south toward Toad Lake before returning north to our camp.
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#hiking #backpacking #California #peakbagging #peakbagger #nature #landscape #mountain

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Last, a bit more ridge view, some search for a different short way down, then a long route around past waterfalls.
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#hiking #backpacking #PCT #waterfall #lake #outside #KlamathNF #RedButtesWilderness #nature #landscape

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Back in California (barely) with a trip flirting with the edge of Red Buttes Wilderness. High ridge views and a little snow. First, the tough climb up West Fork Seiad Creek.
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#hiking #backpacking #CaliforniaAdventure #nature #landscape

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Next, much ridge views and even a peak to bag along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.
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#hiking #backpacking #KlamathNF #RedButtesWilderness #peakbagging

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

One last grand wandering along the thin colored leaves of Patapsco Valley State Park in Maryland that met up with a bit of history here and there:
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#hiking #dayhike #Maryland #PatapscoSP #nature #walking

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Another walk among the fall foliage, this time beside the expansive waters of Liberty Reservoir:
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#hiking #dayhike #nature #getOutside #optOutside #Maryland #LibertyReservoir

[Valerie Valeraaaa @hikingchemist]

Some more fall colors while wandering high and low along the South Branch Patapsco River in Maryland:
https://t.co/XjNMc5zPjn

#hiking #dayhike #blogpost #Maryland #Autumn #PatapscoValleyStatePark #nature #landscape