61. PCT 2024 NoBo, mile 1160 - 1177, Peter Grubb hut- Ridge Spring, July 9th
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- There was a varmint making a barking noise from 2am-4am. That cost me some sleep. I ended up sleeping until 7am!
Going up over Castle Pass wasn't any problem. The Peter Grubb hut was super cool. I was able to go inside in 2017.
There were some long water carries. It is hot. I didn't do bad miles, but not quite 20.
SENSITIVE MEADOW HABITAT
Please Stay on Trail and Keep Dogs on Leash
Protect Our Native Frogs!
The Endangered Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog lives here!
Why is the Sierra Nevada Y ellow-Legged Frog endangered?
Predation by introduced trout, disease (especially chytrid fungus), chemicals,
environmental / climate changes, and human-caused habitat degradation.
Life Cycle Facts:
Tadpoles take 2 to 4 years to metamorphose
into juveniles and require year-round water
It takes 5 to 8 years for these frogs to
become adults and to start reproducing
How You Can Help:
○ Practice LEAVE NO TRACE principles and "TREAD LIGHTLY"
• Clean and dry wet and muddy footwear before hiking into the next watershed to
prevent the spread of deadly chytrid fungus.
Avoid trampling through wet meadow areas and streams
Keep dogs out of streams and ponds in frog habitat.
Avoid getting soaps and sunscreens in stream.
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www.fs.usda.gov/tahoe/
www.fs.usda.gov/main/r5/plant...
www.mylfrog.info/
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If you were doing the CDT or the Arizona Trail those scuzzy ponds would look absolutely inviting compared to sharing a tank with cattle or filtering water out of a road puddle. 😉 - The "moss" is Wolf lichen that is a bright chartreuse color. You will see a lot of it from now on. Native peoples used it to dye material used for their basket making. I've heard two hypotheses on the ring growth, which doesn't happen everywhere. One is that the lichen are following the pattern of earlier rings of branches, and the other is that they grow in the sap holes of sapsuckers such as the Red-breasted sapsucker. Sapsuckers often make their holes in rows up trees. They and other birds then feed off the sap. Sapsuckers often introduce fungal spores in their drill holes, so it's possible they may even be introducing the algae and fungal spores as they drill. - The white flowers are Mariposa Lilies, in this case Calochortus leichtlinii.
I did NM and Colorado. I drank plenty of cow water. 😀
Double decker outhouse 😂
Total guess, but maybe the rings of moss correlate to snow melt. 🍻
Highest point in OR and WA is at 1858, 6,700 ft. Thanks again for sharing your adventure. Class of 2015
I plan on cruising through Oregon!
Flower looks like a Sego Lilly. It has a bulb like tulips. Thank you for showing the flowers.
It's a different species of Mariposa Lily. Sego lilies (Calochortus nuttallii) don't grow in California.
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@@stevenvarner9806 Thank you.