Backstory on this secluded (and pure) place. Its remote. From the coast highway, go about 2-mi up the Los Burros road, then down the steep, rocky, overgrown Willow Ck miners track a full mile to the Landing. Pickup the trail, continue another full mile to the creek. Scramble across Willow Ck somewhere and pickup the trail to the Hobbit cabin site. Now youre about 5-mi from the coast highway bridge. Search out the overgrown trail upstream, cross the stream forks on the big fallen logs beside T. Leary Rock, and pickup the Blue Heaven trail--dont take it. Follow the creek upstream past the old dam remnants and mining prospects until you reach the Lady Bug Convention Center. With great care to not disturb the insect rituals, clamber onward to the little flat where in 1967 we felled the tall redwoods imagining wed build a log cabin, then follow the streamlet on the steep N-facing side up until you reach the short trail to the long-abandoned K-C Lode Claim tunnel. Ignore that trail, climb a hundred more feet up the stream, and voila! Where the Hobbit drinking and garden water came from, a few hundred feet higher than our cabin, and a full 1,500-ft of pipe away. True story: once a tiny trout minnow appeared out of the kitchen sink faucet. Then we added a screen at the inlet. We kept a rainbird sprinkler going 24/7 on the garden in front. During the forest fires, we put that sprinkler on the roof--and it worked. If you go, beware: poison oak, many big rattlesnakes, and a couple of mountain lions have been seen where you will tread. And as Uncle Jerry said: But if you fall, you fall alone .... No cell service. No emergency services. Thats why its called wilderness.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:13:45 +0000
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