How much hell it is really depends on how well you avoid the masses of poison oak near the bottom of the trail.Jimr wrote:Once you hit oak forest, it's just a slippery trail buried to the shin with oak leaves and often obscured. One person on the board described it as a whole lot of hell for a little bit of heaven.
Tehepite valley
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Poison Oak? Oh yeah, I slid right through that stuff, no problem. Until I started breaking out all over.
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No massive rattlesnakes everywhere? Wow, that was a good trip.
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Been there twice, once in July another in Aug, saw a couple on the first trip, none on the second. Even though Tehipite Dome is beautiful, personally I would not go down if I could not get past Crown Creek, some of the highlights are beyond that point.No massive rattlesnakes everywhere? Wow, that was a good trip.
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Been there twice and never saw a rattlesnake, though I know that's unusual. On the other hand, a couple years ago I did a dayhike up Bubbs Creek and saw five of them (though fortunately I only startled two).AlmostThere wrote:No massive rattlesnakes everywhere? Wow, that was a good trip.
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I spent 5 days there and didn't see any rattlers, but I did see 4 bears and almost stepped on a beehive.
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We saw more than 2 rattlers a day on a 4-day stay in the Valley during a heat spell in late June. Lots of raptor activity might explain the very dark coloring they all have so I avoided stepping on Sugar Pine deadfall while walking. I've caught fish with large talon gashes and once found a recently deceased Northern Goshawk on the trail near Blue Canyon Falls.
On the trail back to Wishon I couldn't stop watching for them even tho chances of encounters were more normal.
On the trail back to Wishon I couldn't stop watching for them even tho chances of encounters were more normal.
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