 China Camp entrance road |
 Sign for Pine Valley trail |
 Parking lot for hikers (100 meters past the China Camp sign) |
 Pine Ridge trailhead |
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Notes of this trip
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| China Camp entrance road |
Sign for Pine Valley trail |
Parking lot for hikers (100 meters past the China Camp sign) |
Pine Ridge trailhead |
 Trailhead (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 Up the Pine Ridge trail |
 Burned tree |
 Giant pinecone |
 Not mushrooms |
 Still some snow in march |
 Ventana Wilderness |
 Ventana Wilderness |
 Ventana Wilderness |
 The top of the first hill |
 The ubiquitous yucca |
 Pine Ridge trail |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Pine Ridge trail |
 The top of the first hill |
 Dead oak |
 Ventana Wilderness |
 Dead oaks |
 Wildflowers |
 More monsters |
 Valley on the left of the trail |
 Church Creek Divide |
 Church Creek Divide |
 Church Creek Divide |
 Church Creek Divide (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 Colossal manzanita at Church Creek Divide |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 The trail gets messier |
 First views of the ocean |
 Pine Ridge trail |
 Junction... |
 ... a typical junction in the Ventana Wilderness with rather amateurish signs |
 It is actually the four-way junction with the Black Cone trail to Strawberry Valley (don't go left but don't go right either) |
 Follow this sign (you can tell the quality of signs in the Ventana Wilderness) |
 Lots of dead trees blocking the trail |
 Now a very overgrown trail |
 View west |
 View south |
 View west |
 Dead tree |
 Can you see the sign? (Pine Ridge camp) |
 This is the sign |
 Barely sticking out of the vegetation |
 View west |
 View west |
 Another monster (this time right on the trail) |
 Best yucca yet |
 Overgrown trail |
 Yucca flower |
 Yucca flower |
 The first hill we climbed |
 Assorted vegetation |
 Overgrown trail |
 Overgrown trail |
 The trail further ahead |
 The valley down below where Redwood Camp is |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 The vegetation is now junglish |
 The trail further ahead |
 Redwood Camp |
 Redwood Camp (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 Redwood Camp (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 Redwood Camp (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Redwood Camp |
 Redwood Camp |
 Redwood Camp (multiply by 1.6 to obtain the distances) |
 The hill we came from |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 The monster |
 The Pine Ridge trail is now a shady trail in the redwood forest |
 Ventana Wilderness |
 Big Sur River |
 Big Sur River |
 Big Sur River |
 Big Sur River |
 Sykes hot springs |
 Sykes hot springs |
 Sykes hot springs |
 View west (still a long way to go) |
 Now the trail is in a redwood forest |
 Creek crossing |
 Creek crossing |
 Mushroom |
 Terrace Creek (Courtesy Mihai Martalogu) |
 Terrace Creek (Courtesy Mihai Martalogu) |
 The trailhead at Big Sur Station (Courtesy Mihai Martalogu) |
 Wildflower |
 Wildflower |
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