Thursday, July 3, 2014

NORTH FORK GUALALA RIVER/ELK PRAIRIE


photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller
photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller
photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller
photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller
photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller
photo credit: Bob Rutemoeller


This hike is our once a year hike on Gualala Redwoods lands and is a new suggestion from Henry Alden that we have never done before.  Meet at the back part of Gualala Arts parking lot at 10:15. We will carpool on logging roads (vehicles with high clearance best ) through Elk Prairie to our starting point and then hike along a road that follows the North Fork of the Gualala River so will have glimpses of it from time to time. The hike will be mostly shady and relatively, but not completely, flat. We plan to have lunch at Peach Tree Flat, an area that is open next to the Gualala River (http://gualalawatershed.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/peach-tree-flat/) and will have an opportunity to see how Gualala Redwoods has modified roads to prevent runoff and added large pieces of wood to the river to create pools for fish.
Leaders: Mary Sue Ittner and Bob Rutemoeller

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