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It is essential that you tell someone where you’re hiking and when you expect to return so rescue groups know where to look if you’re overdue. Always respect your limits and avoid hiking alone. Stay on the trail, both to limit erosion and avoid injury.

Following the preparation tips is a partial list of regulations and advice on how to preserve this beautiful landscape for fellow hikers. If you’d like to volunteer your time, refer to the list of ssss1.

Wildlife Hazards

Ticks

Particularly in the Ventana and Silver Peak Wildernesses, trails are often overgrown with brush. This encroaching brush, in turn, harbors ticks. Tick numbers boom following winter’s first major rains and don’t drop again till early summer. They’re most prevalent amid dense thickets of chamise, Big Sur’s most widespread plant.

Once one of these blood-sucking arachnids latches on, it climbs till it reaches an exposed patch of skin. Deer ticks start out the size of a comma on a printed page, while wood ticks are only about twice that size. The tiny hitchhikers often go unnoticed until they swell with blood.