Rees Hughes
Arcata
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Celebrate 11 years of Volunteer Trail Stewards at a Marsh workd ay
HUMBOLDT – The upcoming work day, Saturday, Jan. 27, marks the 11th year of our Arcata Trail Stewards in action! Many of us have grown old together as the years have passed. Some volunteers like Korina Johnson, John Sullivan, and George Nickerson have attended scores of workdays. And we couldn’t survive without new blood too! Thank you all.
TRAIL UPDATE: They've Put in a Lot of Work on the Trails Around Eureka So Maybe Get to Walkin' on 'Em, OK?
Rees Hughes / @ 10:36 a.m. / Nature It was year ago that the Board of Supervisors approved the McKay Community Forest (MCF) Trail Plan and its proposed network with 31 miles of multi-use roads, multi-use trails (including 1.5 miles of accessible trails), hiking trails, and mountain bike trails. Where do things stand a year later? At this time, there are two significant trailheads.
A Pacific Crest Trailside Reader: Howard Shapiro: Trade Paperback: 9781680515701: Powell's Books
by Rees Hughes and Howard Shapiro $21.95 New Trade Paperback Release Date: 6/2/2022 Upcoming Event Crossing Paths: A Pacific Crest Trailside Reader (Mountaineers Books) offers triumphs, terrors, and tales stretching 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada. What’s it like to be a trail angel and can romance truly blossom from first meeting to marriage on the Pacific Crest Trail? How do trail names get bestowed and what does it mean when you find yourself roaring back at a mountain lion?
Building Trails and Resilience
Humboldt County has come a long way from the days when railroads dominated the conversation about economic development and few local politicians saw trails as a community priority. It took trail pioneers working for many agonizing years to complete the Hammond Trail. And the Bay Trail seemed forever mired in a mountain of feasibility studies and general resistance. All that seems an eternity ago.
My Word: Exciting developments from the Humboldt Trails Summit
On this past Saturday, the third Humboldt Trails Summit was attended by over 225 people on the Humboldt State University campus. The Sunday Times-Standard reported on state Sen. Mike McGuire’s town hall meeting about efforts to transform the deteriorated and unused railroad right-of-way into the Great Redwood Trail.
Getting acquainted with the Bigfoot Trail
With days at their longest, the sun stronger, and flowers blooming, the sap begins to run in hikers, too. I know that I start pulling out maps and guidebooks and dreaming about hiking this time of the year.
Hiking along the Bigfoot Trail
Overshadowed by its much older and more distinguished siblings — the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail — our local contribution to the long distance hiking trails family is clamoring for a little attention. The 360-mile long Bigfoot Trail, named for our most famous mega-fauna, begins in the Yolla Bollys and pushes north through the Trinity Alps and Marble Mountains before turning west through the Klamaths to the Pacific Ocean near Crescent City.
Drop it Like a Pot | Get Out | The Journal
Last weekend my dad and I got out for his birthday. We launched our old inflatable boat, powered by a small outboard motor, and took off out of the bay armed with box traps and hoop nets. Our goal was to bring in some of California's tastiest crustaceans — Dungeness crabs. Every year since I was a boy, I would accompany my older brother and my dad out on the boat in search of these crabs. For me, crabbing is part of a tradition that stretches back generations.
Ghost Town | Get Out | The Journal
Most of the sky has darkened but for an apricot streak of sunset over the mouth of Humboldt Bay. Alex Service stands with her back to the water at the foot of F Street, her brown, oilcloth duster flared out behind her as she sets the scene for a crowd of 30.
Adrenaline on Wheels | Get Out | The Journal
My hands squeeze tight on the wheel. Other parts of my anatomy are following suit. Tunnel vision has limited my focus to a half-mile strip of blackened concrete running north into the Samoa dunes. The smell is a funky mix of sea air and car exhaust. My race face is a quivering attempt at motorized manliness, fueled by tepid testosterone and near-toxic levels of adrenaline. The guy I plan to race has informed me that his car is a '94 Mustang with a 5.0 V-8.
Camels and Blowholes
The surf scene up here is unique. There is so much more that goes into a session in Humboldt County than in a daily check of different beaches along the California coast. The water is colder, the ocean angrier, and the sea life much more abundant and a little less friendly. If you want to set foot in the sub 50-degree water and take a chance at surfing, you need to be prepared and respectful. But if you have that in mind, you might score and have a great time.
June 4 summit a chance to check in on state of our trails
What is happening on the local trail scene? I’ve had a special interest in the Humboldt Bay Trail for some time. I admit to anxiously awaiting the chance to walk along the east side of the Bay without bringing my pruning shears or worrying about traffic. I’m not getting any younger. While certainly the most high profile trail project in the county, it is by no means the only development of interest to local pedestrians, cyclists, and equestrians.
Humboldt Insider Winter 2016
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