Читать книгу Trinity Alps & Vicinity: Including Whiskeytown, Russian Wilderness, and Castle Crags Areas. A Hiking and Backpacking Guide онлайн

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The Trinity Alps Wilderness consists of about 518,000 acres, with boundaries close to what several conservation organizations and Trinity County lobbied for over the years prior to wilderness designation. Such a designation was a triumph for wilderness proponents and nonmechanized recreational enthusiasts. The act also required that previously existing private lands within the designated wilderness boundary would be exchanged or eventually purchased. Until such buyouts are completed, any private inholdings will be nominally managed as wilderness. With more than 500 miles of trail, the Trinity Alps are a backpacker’s paradise.

The Russian Wilderness is much smaller than the Trinity Alps, with only 12,000 acres of land set astride the apex of a divide separating the Scott and Salmon Rivers. The area has a buffer of national forest land on all but the east side, land which is mostly held in private hands. With more than 30 miles of trail within the wilderness and surrounding national forest, this area is well suited for day hikers, as well as for weekend backpackers.