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A short day to finish on day 7 in the #KingRange on the #LostCoastTrail and more. Getting in a bit more #tidepooling and wandering the #dunes.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-punta-gorda-lighthouse.html
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Tide pools on Mattole Beach. Dark rocks with water pooling in the low spots. There's more rocks scattered in the water beyond and waves trying to crash through them. A distant marine layer sits on the water and there happens to be a small boat in the distance to the right.

Striped shore crab. Claws, light on the inside, deliver bits of kelp to the mouth of a small crab just under the water. The crab is mostly dark colors with light green stripes and molting on its shell. Around the crab is a bit of green algae and rock above the water.

Mattole Beach. Standing in the dunes looking out to the dark sand beach. One section of the beach has dark rocks at the water that extend out a little. There's a distant fog bank, but otherwise the sky is blue.

Sandy path through dunes at Mattole Beach. A sandy trail winds between light green plants, some of them showing purple flowers. To the right are green hills and to the left is the Pacific Ocean. Ahead are more hill ranges. It is all under blue sky with a distant fog bank.

Day 6 was generally spent on the Cooskie Creek Route through the #KingRange. One of the best reasons to get off the #beach and see more when #hiking the #LostCoastTrail.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-cooskie-creek-route.html
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Above Randall Creek on the Cooskie Creek Route. Ridges repeat off into the distance in ever lighter grey-blue colors. In the foreground, grassy hills have a line of Douglas fir. The next hill is also green with a large patch of trees to the left away from the ocean. After that are the vanishing ridges. All is under a blue sky.

Cooskie Creek Route going north. A faint trail of greener grass is visible on the right as it crosses a grassy hill. Another grassy hill is behind that and a grassy cliff behind that. All have lines of Douglas fir trees cutting up the grass areas.

Tolmie's pussy ears. This mariposa lily has three petals of purple with darker purple at the center. Long hairs cover the petals. Between the petals, the sepals are visible. Blue and purple stamen are visible at the center. There is a cluster of three, one still in bud, Grass grows up taller than the little flowers.

North end of Cooskie Creek Route. Looking down a shrub covered hillside that drops steeply to the dark sand beach below. Waves wash the beach leaving a little sand visible. A line of wave comes in for more washing of the sand.

Day 4 was time to get off the #beach and the #LostCoastTrail. I headed up Rattlesnake Ridge into the #KingRange for camp by a high spring nearly at the top. https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-rattlesnake-ridge.html
#hiking #backpacking #trekking #walking #landscape #nature #photography #NaturePhotography #landscapePhotography #KingRangeNationalConservationArea #water

On the Lost Coast Trail approaching Miller Flat and Big Flat. Water pooling on a black pebble and sand beach. Waves wash the other side of rocks that hold the pool. Green hills covered in trees are on the other side of the beach.

On Big Flat near the junction with Lost Coast Trail and Rattlesnake Ridge Trail. Two hills on either side, both covered in trees but the left one showing an old burn with a patch of dead and bleached trees. Between is the canyon of Big Flat Creek. Between the hills are higher mountains, the tops with clouds swirling around.

Big Flat Creek from the side of the trail. Water flows on the right, lined by alders and pine trees.

Rattlesnake Ridge. Looking steeply down the canyon of Big Flat Creek to the ocean and land flats below. Foam from waves at the edge of the ocean is visible. Everything of land is covered in trees and brush.

Day 3 on the #LostCoastTrail started cold, but the overnight storm had finished and sun was coming for the finish of the hike on the #beach. https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-big-flat-to-shelter-cove-and.html
#hiking #backpacking #trekking #walking #California #nature #ocean #NaturePhotography #KingRange #sunset #landscape #landscapePhotography #CaliforniaCoastalTrail

Miller Flat on the Lost Coast Trail. A green grass covered flat ends at a sudden cliff of maybe 15 feet high that drops to a rocky beach. In the distance, there are burned trees on a green hill. Further off, the mountain tops vanish into clouds of the grey sky.

Sun coming out on a black sand beach. Cliffs rise on the left, topped by trees. A flat ocean laps at the sand from the right.

Shelter Cover, Black Sands Beach. Watching the waves roll in beside a rock. Water gushes through a tunnel in the rock. Across a little bit of ocean, cliffs rise to a flat with trees and sparse buildings.

Horse Mountain Creek campsite, sunset from underneath the tarp. An orange sky with scattered clouds is broken by a line and pole on one side and distant hills on the other. There's a lot of beach with some big driftwood, the light driftwood is about the only thing visible on the dark beach.

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