Great Book: "Beyond Counterculture" - The History of the Mateel Section of Humboldt County, California... Settled by Hippies Fleeing The Haight Ashbury section of San Francisco in the Late Sixties in order to Farm Cannabis - Included is a Map of Northern California, USA showing How to Visit... It's an EPIC Drive, Way Out in the Woods! Quite A FUN TRIP!

Photo of A Cross Made Out Of Two Telephone Poles. at the entrance to Mount Saint Mercy Sobriety Retreat In Remote Humboldt County, California by gvan42
A Cross Made Out Of Two Telephone Poles. 
Photographed at the entrance to 
Mount Saint Mercy Sobriety Retreat
In the Remote Mateel Section of 
Humboldt County, California


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Mateel is between the Lost Coast 
and the Avenue of the Giants.
It is The Watershed formed by the 
Matole River and the Eel River.

Map of Humboldt County Showing Driving Directions to The Mateel Area
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Print this Map to Take with You when Driving There...

To Visit the Mateel Area of Humboldt County, California... 
Travel North From San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101... Using Exit 663, Turn Onto the Avenue of the Giants at Dyerville. Take a Left Going Towards Honeydew (you drive under the Highway). Follow the Lower Bull Creek Flats Road to the Mattole Road. Follow it on to Honeydew, Petrolia, The Lost Coast, Ferndale and then Fernbridge... Continue Your Journey North to Eureka, Arcata and Oregon... 
How to get to the Mateel Area of Humboldt County...

another way to get there...

 Take Highway 101 South from Eureka, California...  take Highway 211 Right at Fernbridge, drive over the bridge... to Victorian Ferndale. Drive down main street and make a Right at Ocean Drive (at the Big Hotel )... Left on Wildcat Ave (sign points to Capetown, Petrolia)... drive over the mountain to the Pacific Ocean.... Where cattle graze on the beach... Keep on Going and Eventually You get to the Avenue of the Giants...


Beyond Counterculture is the History of the Hippies who fled The Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco and Moved to Southern Humboldt County to Earn their living farming Cannabis. Originally a Doctoral thesis.

Between the Eel and Matole Rivers, Garberville and the Lost Coast.
Mateel is a Sunny and Warm.
Once PALCO logged the area, the land was really cheap. Perfect for growing Marijuana Outdoors. This location is Not on Google Streetview.

Beyond Counterculture: The Community of Mateel 

Paperback – June, 1990 by Jentri Anders.

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Creating Electricity from Sawmill Waste

Mouth of the Mad River,
 a Human Free Zone in California

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Phase of the Moon on the Date this Blog Post was created: Full
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PG&E Humboldt Bay

Tugboat and a barge of wood chips leaving Humboldt Bay

Load of Logs going to Palco sawmill in Scotia, CA
[AKA Pacific Lumber]





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