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**Valerie Norton** @valhikes@mountains.social · Apr 19

Valerie Norton @valhikes@mountains.social

The second day was heading up the mountain and into the snow. Lots of snow. A bit annoying, that snow.

All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/03/smith-to-summit-summit-valley.html

#California #DelNorteCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #SmithRiverNRA #SiskiyouWilderness #SouthKelseyTrail

Blue sky arrives for our one sunny day!

Clouds clearing to a blue sky above, mist follows the river valley below. A thick covering of green trees hides the rising slopes around the river. A mountain in the distance has a thin dusting of snow.

At the turn around after trudging through snow a little.

Looking back across footprints in a blanket of snow. Green conifers poke out of it brightly under a bright sun and sky with thin veil of clouds. In the distance, more mountains with snow covered tops and dark bottoms.

Patchy snow and a striking tree on the way down.

Snow covers the open trail, but not much around the brushy sides. In the near distance, a tree sticks up from above the others nearby showing a bulge of green near the top and then dead sticks right at the top. In the far distance, folds of dark green mountains reach up to snowy tops. The sky has thin streaks of cloud in otherwise blue.

Pseudotrillium, not trillium. It's the only one of the genus.

A white flower with purple spots radiating from the center on its three petals. Below, three sepals and then three bracts that any sane person would take for leaves. The stem is dark red and the leaves dark green with a pattern of white along the veins. It pops out of a ground with much moss.

#hiking #backpacking #nature

**Valerie Norton** @valhikes@mountains.social · Apr 19

Apr 19

Valerie Norton @valhikes@mountains.social

With a little encouragement, I got out to a short backpacking trip on an old trail. The first day was damp set up, but with plenty of trillium! Er, make that pseudotrillium!

All the info is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/03/smith-to-summit-smith-river.html

#California #SixRiversNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #DelNorteCounty #SmithRiverNRA #SouthKelseyTrail

#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #wilderness #forest#river #SouthForkSmithRiver #travel #hike #outside

The big creek crossing along the way.

A trail of dark earth through mossy green and fern covered land is cut by a wide creek with rushing white water tumbling over boulders. An apparently small hiker balances on a pair of thin logs with the aid of a long walking stick in the water, crossing the main flow. Thickly green trees stand around.

Del Norte Salamander

A small, wet salamander curls and scrambles on fingers much larger than it. It is dark brown with striping of lighter brown from head to tail.

Soggy brook wakerobing, the only Pseudotrillium species.

A dark purple stem pokes up from three big green leaves with a bricklike pattern. A flower weighted down by large water drops curves to the side. It's three petals are white and partly protected by light green sepals.

Buck Creek entering South Fork Smith River

A large flowing creek with water turning from white to calmer looking enters into a second large flowing water body. Bare rocks with plants a few feet above the water surround. From this angle, either could be the largest. It's actually the further that's largest.

**Valerie Norton** @valhikes · Aug 8, 2023

Aug 8, 2023

Valerie Norton @valhikes

Going all #SitClub at the top of Etna Mountain (not to be confused with Mount Etna) with the #RussianWilderness and #MarbleMountainWilderness and a bit of #TrinityAlpsWilderness and #SiskiyouWilderness all in view. The #PCT is busy in both directions right now, but it gets quiet quickly with the littlest turn off. Oh, yeah, #MountShastaWilderness too. #mountains #California

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