Gimme the Good Earth III

After enjoying the fruits of your labors, we all need a place to chill. This is that place. Totally senseless irrelevant banter encouraged.
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Yeah Kings meadow was Paradise. Gorgeous! This is why I like hiking without a strict schedule, taking xtra time in these cool spots, which I surely did.

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So anyway I'm tooling along the trail, euphoria seeping in my bones as I pass one awesome blossom flower garden after another.
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Wham!!
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Then I ran into this trail closer sign, WTF it wasn't closed last time I checked before the trip. Bummer. Choice is ignore the closer and continue on as planned or walk an extra couple miles of highway that I already walk previously coming off Mt Lassen. Fines and THE LAW were not even close to my worries, I did not want to get in the way if work crews were working.
Fortuitousness a couple of day hikers came down the trail from Bumpass Hell. No work was being done, no work crews, place was empty and awesome, encouraged me to go on. So I did.

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Passed cold boiling Lake, not warm at all, just some gases bubbling on one end of the shallow lake. Dang Pretty tho.
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The trail out to Bumpass was scenic as hell. Glad I ignored the sign.
Cool trail, Cool rock, Coool views, Cool flowers and bugs
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Brokeoff Mountain, which I'll be coming up the backside cross-country in a few days.
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Mariposa Lily with a blue-green iridescence beetle.
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Then Bumpass Hell. Awesome! Outrageous! A geyser, boiling pools, mud pots and steam everywhere. With a cold spring near by and no one around from the closure, it was a no brainier to make camp.
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Bumpass Hell and my camp off to the right amongst the evergreens.
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Camp next to a sweet cold spring. A large momma bear and cutest little bear cub came wandering in camp looking for a handout, encouraging her cute little cub to come forward even tho he was obviously nervous about me. the mom was too confident for my taste, so after some firm NO's and GO's, she finally gave up. No problem in the end but got my adrenaline up. fwiw a bear canister would have made no difference whatsoever.

Now whenever I listen to Pentatonics' song: "No" I hear me telling the bear: "NO, ya need to let it go, ya need to let it go".

my food is NO
my camp is NO
my handouts is NO
Ya need to GO, ya need to GO


The Geyser, unfortunately it just wouldn't pop while I had the camera out.
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Named after the discoverer K.V. Bumpass, the dude lost his leg in one of the boiling mud pots. Fucking eh! Still not sure if it was pronounced Bump-ass or Bum-pass.

Next day woke up to steam billowing over the trees.
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Finishing the closed trail, beautiful and all to myself, A lot of clouds today .. hmmmm
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Diller peak and Mt Brokeoff.


Crossed the highway at Helen lake, looking at my route across the lake, cross county over the pass between Eagle peak (left) and Lassen (right).
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Almost to the top
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Views from the top
North, Manazinta lake in the middle and hazy Mt Shasta behind cloud cover.
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Diller peak and Mt Brokeoff again -- from the other side.
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Dropping down to the trees and this beautiful alpine meadow, in the middle of the cross country, virgin 'n cheery! Jes too cool!
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Shooting Stars
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More video, more shit, but less hearing me babble:


Had to set the tent for the fist time from a little rain at sunset. But at least no real storm.
But real Bad news, fuckin bad news.
I broke my Kindle ebook. Damn. Knocked it against a rock. I climbed up high on the mountain and miraculously got a cell phone connection, it would drop out after a couple of minuets but I left a voice mail to my bro to buy me another kindle. Damn! 2-3 weeks before I get it tho. Oh well I rationalized maybe I've been spending too much time with my nose in a book amongst this awesome scenery anyway.
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Pic of the working kindle and happier days. Pic taken just a few of days ago in Caribou.
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Always enjoy the ride along............

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Next day continue cross county generally following the creek down Blue Lake Canyon
Pics of the mourning, spectacular scenic little cross country, gave me freaking' hard on so beautiful!
Fairly easy too, being mostly downhill.
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Soda Lake

Shooting Stars and Lupine
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The route continued down, keeping an eye on the thunderheads
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Going got rougher, thicker forest, more downfall … didn't keep me from stopping to smell the flowers tho.
Tiger Lily
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Monkshood or Wolfsbane - poisonous.
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Mint - delicious
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the route first turned into a old jeep trail
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Then into a dirt road then into a gravel Forest Service road, 15 odd mile of this.
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