Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Simulates a Drive on the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!

We Start the Journey in Arcata's Central Plaza... Home to Farmer's Markets, Live Music, Parades and Spontaneous Drum Circles when it's Sunny!

Arcata is also the Home of Humboldt State University where I went for Four Years and got a BS in Computer Information Systems... Excellent!

Clock Tower, Elevator and Bookstore 

at the Center of Campus

Bicycle Power Generator built by Students
at the Campus Center for
Appropriate Technology, HSU

Dancing in the Plaza to
Local Band Absynth Quintet

Map of Arcata showing
Highway 101 and Highway 299

Travel North on 101 and Take a Right onto 299
 in order to travel to Weaverville and Redding.

a Mile up the Road We see 

The Mill Yard... Construction Materials.

Lumber for Sale. 

On the Road Again...

135 Miles to Redding.

and Highway 299 Doesn't Stop There.

It Goes All the Way to Alturas 

Where it Connects to 395 Going North and South on the Nevada Side of The Sierras.

Crossing the Mad River

Standing on the Sandbar of the Mad River

at the Humboldt Municipal Water District Park 1

A Water Company Machine being Installed

I like to Get off here and Have Breakfast 

at the Blue Lake Casino.

They Have Great Food at 

Low Prices and in the Morning

there are very few people... 

Most People Like to Gamble at Night!

Looking at the Main Hotel 

With the Forest in the Background.

The Coffee Shop

Filler UP before that Long Drive

Over the Mountains!

Slot Machines... 

Normally Packed With People!

Pull a Handle, Maybe Get Lucky,

or Maybe Donate to the Tribe!

Blue Lake is also Famous as the Home of the Humboldt Folklife Festival. at the Old IOOF Hall.

Stage Built Right into the Back of the Building 

at the Humboldt Folklife Festival 

Highway 299 heading out of Blue Lake Going East

and we see miles and miles of trees

as we head into the Trinity Alps

even more Trees!

299 takes some Twisty Turns as it 

Climbs Up into the Mountains.

Here we can see Clear Cut Logging 

with a Beauty Border of Uncut Trees 

Right next to the Road... 

So No One Notices the Logging.

and Right at the First Loop on

the Satellite Picture Above

is the Secret Dirt Road with a Gate.

 Logging Company Employees Only! 

No Trespassing...

No Earth First! Eco-Warriors...

and here we are at the Top of the World

--- Lord Ellis Summit ---

With a Handy Gravel Parking Lot

to Stop and Enjoy the View.

Some people Ride Bicycles over these Mountains.

Others RUN. My Teacher, Mr Kim, was a 

Marathon Runner and He Participated in the

Run from Arcata to Willow Creek. 

A Super Marathon! It involved running

to the Top of a Mountain, To the Bottom of 

a Valley and then to the Top of 

Another Mountain... 

Lord Ellis Summit in the Snow...

After Lord Ellis Summit

We Go Down into 

the Redwood Creek Valley

Somewhere down there is Redwood Creek

Be Thankful We are Not Stuck in a Road

Construction Traffic Jam. Every Summer they

Repair the Road and It Becomes ONE WAY.

With a Pilot Lead Truck... and a Long

Line of Cars, Trucks and Enraged

Drivers... But There is a Trick!

After CAL-TRANS Ushers you thru

The Zone, Pull off onto the Side of the Road

and Admire the View for 10 Minutes.

Maybe take a Photo of a Creek...

By Then, ALL of the other Cars and Trucks

will Have Driven on Down the Road...

and I Have it All to Myself!

and Since I Drive Slower than Average,

Those People will Keep on Getting

Farther and Farther Away from Me.

EXCELLENT!

Waiting for the one way road to open up - construction delay

One time I was driving Home from Redding and It was Really Hot! in my car without Air Conditioning... and We were Stuck waiting and waiting and waiting... and then when I finally was allowed to drive, I noticed a Park on the Trinity River... Stopped, Went Swimming, Drank a Lot of Pure Water... and Felt Wonderful! as Close to True Enlightenment as I'm Ever Likely to Get. 

after Redwood Creek Valley,

We Get to Berry Summit.

Where there is a Parking Lot for Travelers 

to Stop and Enjoy the View... 

or Take a Nap if You Need to... 

Logging Truck Parked at the Berry Summit
I always Stopped there to Rest 

and Admire The View. 

Remember: If you are Traveling Downhill and You see a Fully Loaded Logging Truck in the Rear View Mirror... Pull off tho the Side of the Road at the First Opportunity. Let 'em Go! Because They Don't Really Have Brakes... and If You are in their Way, You are Putting Everyone's Life in Danger!

 

You can See "Forever" from Up There!

Unless it's Foggy... Then You Can't See Nuttin!

 But Before We Get to Willow Creek,

There is an Opportunity to stay 

at the Boise Creek Campground... 

Boise Creek Campground 

USDA Boise Creek Campground 

your tax dollars at work!

Willow Creek is Most Famous for Being Near the Home of Bigfoot. The Famous Film was Made Here. In Fact, That film was a Fake But... DON'T Tell Anyone! The Town Earns its Living with the Museum and Renting Motel Rooms to People that Want to Walk around in the Woods Looking For Bigfoot... FUN! 

Map of Willow Creek CA USA - at The Junction of 299 and 96 - the Road to the Hoopa Reservation

The Trinity River in Hoopa. 

[DISCLAIMER]

I don't want to Mislead the Public but

all these Pictures were Taken Long Ago.

The Last Couple of Years the Climate Has 

Changed and there is a LOT LESS WATER. 

So... Enjoy this Time Travel Blog...

Back to the Good Old Days When there was

Water in the Trinity River... and the Forest

had not Burned Down... 

Also on Highway 96 is The Black Bear Ranch 

and Eventually You get to Oregon...

It's a Twisty Mountain Road thru the Town of Happy Camp! 

A circle of people at the Black Bear Ranch 

a Hippie Commune in Remote 

Northern California on Highway 96. 

We Choose Not to Go There!

We are Going to Willow Creek 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiC-AmIIrYE

and to the Bigfoot Museum!

note the height of the Lady, TINY - 

It's a BIG Sculpture with BIG FEET!

"Actual" Photo of Bigfoot from the Famous Film.

Locals will Guide You to The Actual Location the film was made at... For a FEE!

and a Bigfoot Mural in Downtown Willow Creek.

and a Bigfoot Parade... 

During the Bigfoot Days Celebration!

July 9th 2022

Float in the Bigfoot Parade

Willow Creek is Where Highway 299 Meets the Trinity River. Downstream the Trinity Merges with the Klamath and Enters the Pacific Ocean near the Oregon Border in Yurok Tribal Land...

Trinity River.

Here's a Photo of the Golden Bear on the Highway 101 Bridge at Yurok Nation! Way far Downstream.

 
and Back to our Journey...

Near Willow Creek... GRAPES!

Vineyard near Willow Creek. 

The Climate up there in the Mountains 

is Sunny and Warm in the Summer

and Snowy in the Winter

Horse Mountain near Willow Creek 

and Since it's The Tallest Mountain...

There is an Antenna Farm!

Not Everyone in Willow Creek earns their Living Off Bigfoot... Here's a Truck Hauling Boards.

This is a Rare Sight because almost all of the Trucks haul LOGS not Boards. They take the Logs out of the Mountain to the Mills Located in Arcata, Blue Lake or Eureka. ...and... I love the Visual Echo we sometimes get in Google Street View... The "Stitching" Program Does Strange Psychedelic Distortion on Occasion!

Here's a Picture I Took of a Fully Loaded 

Logging Truck hauling LOGS. 

I was Stuck in a Construction Traffic Jam. 

Leaving Willow Creek There is an Opportunity to Stay a Quaint Cabins... A Great Base Camp for Your Bigfoot Search!

China Creek Cottages

Leaving Willow Creek We Find... Salyer!

In Trinity County, California, USA

You can see it's a Great Place to Go Swimming

or Put your Boat into the River. 

At the Salyer Store, Go Across the Bridge 

on Campbell Ridge Road.

Park in the Gravel Parking Lot and 

Follow the Trail to the Beach!

Bridge over the Trinity River near Salyer 

 Stop at the Francis B Matthews

Rest Area... On this Road, Stop Often...

Relax! Enjoy Life!

Nothing Special about this Rest Stop, They are all Basically the Same... But they are Open 24 Hours a Day and You are Welcome to Sleep in Your Car for Hours... If Needed! Or it's a Great Place to Meet a Marijuana Farmer if You are Doing a Dope Deal! 

The Trinity River is Pretty Darn 

Squiggly as Seen from Space

But Look at Those Beaches!

A Mountain near Burnt Ranch.

Another Town with Nothing There 

except a Store and a Post Office.

Drive a few Miles to Cedar Flat

Trinity River Swimming Park.

Stop the Car and Jump in the River!

The Trinity River on the East Side of Cedar Flat

It's Like this For Miles!

And You Can Rent a Ride in a Rubber Boat

There are Many White Water Rafting Companies.
Buy a Ticket, Take the Ride in Their Boat and then
they Give you a Ride in a Truck Back Upstream
to Where You Parked the Car!


https://whitewatertours.com/river-rafting/trinity-river/


https://trinityriverrafting.com/



Bigfoot in the Trinity River -
From the Bigfoot Rafting Company.
https://www.bigfootrafting.com/about/

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You can Meet Adventurous People Rafting... 
Just Like the Characters Did in
"The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey! They all met White Water Rafting Down
the Colorado thru the Grand Canyon... 

Art by Robert Crumb

Picnic Area
Shasta Trinity National Forest near Whites Bar
Facilities? a Paved Place to Park,
Three Porta Potties, Your Choice of Picnic Tables, One Sunny, One Shady and a Sign...

and a Fabulous Beach!

You Could Jump in the River at the
Upstream End of the Picnic Area,
Float down the Rapids and Finish
In the Deep Water!
and then Walk Back to the Beginning 
and take the Ride Again!

View from the Bridge over the Trinity River
 on Corral Bottom Road -
Across from the Big Bar Ranger Station 

Corral Bottom Road Goes way up
into the Mountains...
Look at that Squiggly Blue Line!
and Google Streetview Photographed it all!

It Goes 26 Miles to Meet
Highway 3 at Hayfork...
But after about 6 Miles you get to
the Hayfork Bally Fire Lookout Tower!

and This is Highway 3 near Hayfork

Back to Highway 299... We Come to Helena

an Abandoned Gold Rush Mining Town

"Tumble Down Shack in Bigfoot County."

A Grateful Dead Lyric from the Song

Brown Eyed Women

East Fork Road in Helena... 

I Think I Went on a Backpacking Trip

Starting at the End of this Road

in 1972 with Joe Franck.

He was the Guide...

Junction City: 8 Miles West of Weaverville CA

Here is Where the Road Leaves The Trinity River. 

Weaverville Map - 

Junction of Highway 299 and Highway 3

When traveling East, Just Continue Straight 

on towards Redding!

But Remember to Visit the Joss House! 

The Outside of The Joss House. 

the Inside of The Joss House. 

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=457

The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds:

The temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California. On display are art objects, pictures, mining tools, and weapons used in the 1854 Tong War. This Taoist temple is still a place of worship and a fascinating look into the role played by Chinese immigrants in early California history. The temple was built in 1874 as a replacement for another that had burned.

https://roundme.com/tour/505679/view/1675429

Take the Virtual Tour of the Museum Joss House.

Here's The Mouth of a Dragon and a 

Drawing of a Chinese Man Panning for Gold.

Weaverville History Museum and Blacksmith

and If You Turn around and Look the Other Way, 

It's the Classic Little White Church 

Onward!

The Moon Lim Lee Rest Area 

and Buckhorn Fountain... 

One of those Unsolved Mysteries!

Who WAS Moon Lim Lee?

Why do the Rotarians Honor Him with 

a Rest Stop? We will Never Know

Because They Sure as Hell aren't Telling!

We DO Know that the Buckhorn Fountain was a Place to Stop near Buckhorn Summit and Get Water for the Radiator of Your Car. 

When I was a Child in the Sixties, There was a Similar Fountain near Summit Road, Los Gatos for People Traveling to The Beach at Santa Cruz. I guess Automobiles Overheated often when Traveling over a Mountain!

Map of Douglas City - On the Trinity River AGAIN! at the Junction of Highway 3 and 299

Another Swooshing Bridge over the Trinity River - at Douglas City. Note The Curve... Like a LOGO!

Indian Creek Lodge on the Trinity River.

Indian Creek Lodge - 

backyard Fire Pit with Wooden Chairs... 

Famous for Fishing!

Trinity River Fishing - Indian Creek Lodge - 

Whiskeytown Reservoir 

Unicorn Inflatable Boat for Kids - FUN at Whiskeytown Lake near Redding.

If you have never been there, Redding is Unbearably Hot in the Summer... Much Hotter than Sacramento or Chico... The Cool air Blows in from the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco Bay... And that Pushes the Hot Air of California's Central Valley to the Very Ends of The Valley. Redding and Bakersfield are INSANE in the Summer... 

SO, Drive up to Whiskeytown Lake and Jump In... and the Kids can Play with Their Unicorn Boat!

The One Last Stop between Whiskeytown Lake and Redding is the Gold Mining Ghost Town at

Shasta State Historic Park... 

Six miles west of Redding a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings remind passing motorists that Shasta City, the lusty "Queen City" of California’s northern mining district, once stood on this site. These ruins and some of the nearby roads, cottages, and cemeteries are all silent but eloquent vestiges of the intense activity that was centered here during the California gold rush.

Gold Mining Ghost Town - Shasta City

If You Look Closely at the Trees on the Right,

You can see that This Forest Burned to the Ground

in One of California's Many Wildfires... 

A Couple Years after the Fire

we are Left with Burnt Trees and 

a Whole Lotta Bushes! 

Building a Town out of Bricks?

Smart Plan in Wildfire Country!

I remember Driving Highway 299 Right after the Wildfire was Put Out... It was Scary... 

The SMELL Triggered Fear in my Lizard Brain...

and It Looked Like an Alien Planet...

But Enough of THAT! On To Redding!

We Made It to Redding! 

Welcome Sign and Massive RV.

I'm Sure Glad I wasn't Driving THAT thru

The Mountains! How Many Gallons to the Mile?

Secret Shortcut to Highway 5 if You're Going to Chico or Sacramento. Turn Right at Buenaventura Ave and You Can MISS Redding Entirely!

When you see the Welcome to Redding Sign,

Follow that Truck to Avoid Actually Going There!

World Class Heart Attack Specialists Hospital.

The First Building I Always See Entering Redding.

Of Course, In Redding there is the Sacramento River to Swim in... and WaterWorks Park...

Map of Redding and Whiskeytown Reservoir

Sundial Bridge in Redding.

Sundial Bridge... and Those Mountains in the Distance? Those are the Fabulous Trinity Alps... Where We Just Were!

There are Some Spots, Like Castle Crags, That Are as Wonderful as Anything in the Sierra Nevada. Except Yosemite... That's The Best!

and that's as far as I've Gotten this Morning!

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VisionQuest!

I wanted to Learn How to Do "Remote Viewing" and Telekinesis... Well... I've Pretty Much Gotten Damn Good at "Remote Viewing."

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Using Google Maps, Street View, Satellite Images and Google Image Search... I Can See Many Things Far AWAY... and People Upload their own Photographs! In Locations I'm Forbidden to go... Inside the Monastery high in the Mountains on Highway 36... Poolside at the Christian Summer Camp... Inside the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia... They have an Excellent Virtual Tour... Right Inside the Control Room and the Factory Floor Where they Build the Turbines... 

NOW, I Want to Learn Telekinesis... 

So I Can Do Some Monkey Wrenching at

The Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant... 

What IF I Traveled inside the Reactor Control

Computer and Freaking MELTED the Microprocessor? Automatic Shutdown!

NRC Investigation! 

Read More:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-to-be-eco-terrorist-lunatic-moon.html

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Handy Hints!

When designing a BLOG or Webpage: Make sure to keep Photo file sizes small so your page loads quickly... even on old slow computers in foreign countries! USE JPG format and save at 70% MEDIUM QUALITY - With a Width of image Less than 1400 Pixels. Why would anyone want their Blog to Load Slowly for No Reason?

Remember to TITLE the pictures with a meaningful name in English... put that name in the ALT and TITLE tags in the HTML: Here's a Typical name of mine... "Lord Ellis Summit in the Snow Highway 299 Humboldt County CA USA.jpg" That way Google image search can understand what the picture is about and rate it highly... and people that can't see images will know what it's all about! and People living in India or France or Australia will know that the picture is located in California, USA...

I'm often surprised that people I Know, Who Should know better, put a Large PNG format picture on their website when... The Viewer's Computer CAN'T Show the Difference! All that extra data is wasted... and the Time it takes to load a page is slowed down... Large Beautiful PNG Images are Excellent if you want to print a photo on a T-Shirt or a Coffee Cup... Like my Zazzle/gregvan Webstore... The Extra Quality is Essential to make a Great Product... BUT... not on a Blog or Website... If you are submitting photographs to make a BOOK... YES! Big Beautiful Images are Required...

Remember: The Default setting on an iPhone is a Huge File... When I use the pictures I take with my iPhone the first thing I do is use Pixlr.com to throw away 80% of the Data...

Have you ever Noticed the Paintings on the Wall in TV Commercials? They All Look a Lot Like This one Above... Just a Meaningless Blob of Color on the Wall with Nothing to Distract the Viewer from Whatever the Spokesmodel is Selling... In the SET there Should be Something on the Wall but Nothing that attracts attention!

I'm also disturbed by the Beautiful Hollywood Actresses cast as Patients in Drug Commercials... They Always have a Disclaimer Printed in the Screen that Says "Not a Real Patient" as if They Couldn't FIND a Real Patient to Film... they could show how the Drug performs it's Miracles... but NO... They have a Casting Call Looking for Gorgeous Babes that Look Real Healthy... PLAY BALL!

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