Bears In The Marble Mountain Wilderness

California s marble mountain wilderness offers some of the finest backcountry in the northstate.

Bears in the marble mountain wilderness.

Wildlife is an integral part of wilderness ecosystems with a large variety of mammals birds and reptiles found in the marble mountains. The trail is primarily used for hiking walking nature trips and backpacking and is best used from april until november. I d probably buy a mule and just disappear up there. Dogs are also able to use this trail.

Paradise lake trail is a 4 3 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near fort jones california that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The 17 mile sky high lake loop is my favorite trail. Forest service and is within the klamath national forest in siskiyou county. At the same time we were preparing to head into this same distant region deep into the klamath mountains to climb little known 7 405 foot kings castle in the marble mountain wilderness.

The area is lush with plants flowers old trees big bears mountains made of marble and of course swimming lakes. The scramble up to the peak in this map follows an area with very high brush i actually moved to the more rocky approach slightly east before the end of the trail. While there are many breathtaking areas within the wilderness area none are more popular than the marble rim and the sky high lakes. While the views of marble mountain and the valley are awesome it had quite a few bugs.

At night it was a little breezy and they stopped. It is managed by the u s. The marble mountains are my favorite wilderness. A trip combining these areas boasts beautiful lakes lush meadows excellent views and the opportunity to see one.

Paradise lake and bear lake marble mountain wilderness october 21 2018 october 21 2018 the smoke is still lingering in the area due to a few persistent fires so i made my best effort to get away from it heading for the marble mountains in northern california. Thankfully i have art bernstein s book best hikes of the marble mountain and russian wilderness areas california written in 1996 but to date still the best resource available at amazon however since it is aging it s best to visit a local ranger station such as the one in fort jones as the klamath. If we lived closer i d visit them every week.