Monday, August 8, 2011

July 29 - Belden Town Resort

End: Williams Cabin Site
Daily: 25.3
Total: 1295.8

We got dropped off by the Williams at the road at 8, and hiked through forested ridges most of the day. At about 2, we started plunging down a mountain side, switchbacking and switchbacking into Feather River Canyon. Near the bottom, we got into tons of poison oak. It was terrible! Chris gets it like normal, but I'm not allergic yet and would like to stay that way. That probably won't happen after this trip though.

We finally got into Belden Town Resort, and in front of the store the first people we see are locals, and the first thing they say is "Hi, welcome to Belden Town. We're not creepy!"

This would sound even weirder to tsomeone who hadn't read Yogi's guide, which says "Belden Town is creepy. There's been raves every weekend for the last few years." We had heard about the raves, but there wasn't one that weekend. I wish there had been. It would have been interesting at least.

Instead, we hung out in and around the Feather River. It was nice because the heat felt like Texas in the summer at 6 pm. HOT.

Anyway, we cooked and headed out, intending to do 6 more miles. Well, we did them, but they were the worst 6 miles ever, and there was nowhere to camp until here. We had to fight our way through jungles that had poison oak growing all over. Ugh.

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