Illinois River Trail

(Highlights from a trip I took with my dad on part of the Illinois River trail in the Siskiyous. It was a rainy weekend in the beginning of May. This was one of the few trails that was below the snow line.)

Day 1- It rained. All day and all night. the entire world is wet.

Day 2- We do not love our packs. Only sprinkling. Hard to find trail. Epic crossing at Florence creek.
Sun came out-we layed in a sun spot for about 20 min.
The sun left us and life was hell.
Florence Trail-Up and Up. Don't Do It.
Bread crumb trail of flagging and rock cairns-hopefully leading us the right way.

Day 3- Didn't go up Bald Mountain- we were in a cloud anyway.
My entire universe is still wet.
Stopped at Pine Creek to fill watterbottles and cook a meal.
Sun is somewhat shining.
Perfected the Nanae Roll Technique.
10.5 miles in one day- made it out.
We love our little blue car.

Important to note:
glossed over all the swearing and cursing of Florence while goin UP - straight fing UP Flrence Trail.
We saw some cool insect eating plants on day 3.
The Nanae Roll Technique is what we named the roll that is required to pass over logs that have fallen over the trail. There were quite a few large logs in the way that we crossed over those three days.