2005-05-15 04:00:00 PDT Medicine Lake, Siskiyou County-- "Changing the channel?" asked my friend Colin. I'd just picked up my chair and moved from a southeasterly view of pumice fields and pine trees ...
After spending quite a bit of time running rivers this summer, I had a strong itch to go backpacking. I wanted to go somewhere relatively close by, and I wanted to avoid the smoke of the Pioneer Fire, ...
Trinity Mountain, easily identified by the fire lookout tower at its peak, presides over much of the trail, which winds through a glacier-formed cirque. The basin’s hikers pass through dense stands of ...