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The Klamath Mountains yield their inner secrets and pleasures only to hikers, backpackers, and equestrians willing to head out on 500-plus miles of trail. Automobile-bound visitors to resorts near the lakes and rivers see only a fraction more of the mountains than they would see from their car windows on I-5. The general purpose of this book is to inform and inspire those willing to forgo the comforts of their vehicles to get out onto the trails.

Natural History and Environment

GEOLOGY

If you crumple a piece of paper into a ball, and then spread the paper out partway so it’s still crumpled and creased in all directions, you would have an approximate model of the topography of the Klamath Mountains. Although the Trinity Alps do form a generally east–west divide, and the Russians form a north–south divide that separates the Scott and Salmon Rivers, the area’s contorted ridges, canyon, and peaks seem to run helter-skelter in all directions.

The metamorphic rocks in the Trinity Alps area are some of the oldest in California.