Readers - the blog software I use seems barely compatible with my photos from the iPhone. After losing all the camping information blog by going back and forth from an Apple platform to an IBM platform, my work disappeared. Disgusted, I turned to Facebook and posted last week's hike there. But I was completely dissatisfied with that interface so have returned to this one with a brief description of that hike. Also I have re-written 3 blog postings about the campout.
Last Wednesday the 8:30 group decided to give the plank hike another go. As usual we hiked over and between many hills of tailings. The one distinctive feature is a large drain tunnel that even has a piece of petrified wood in it's ceiling. As we neared Canyon Creek, we were fighting our way through poison oak which was overly-enthusiastic it's reach into and cross the "trail". We persisted on, arriving at the notorious plank midday. There, we ate lunch on some rocks by Canyon Creek. As the water was pretty low, we devised a couple of new crossings, only to arrive on the other side and fighting poison oak once more. We descended steeply down the creek towards the American River. But we didn't get very far before the trail disappeared. Also the rocks were crumbling in places as we stepped. So once again we retreated from this goal of great waterfalls, probably not to try that one again. We had hiked about 7.5 miles with a 1200 ft elevation gain. We did see some waterfalls and we heard even more.
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