Itinerary for Mendocino Field Trip
Memorial Day extended weekend
Friday, 28 May-Monday, May 31, 2010

prepared by Wilma Follette

Fri., May 28: Vann Damme State Park. Meet 9:00 a.m. at the beach
parking area across from the park entrance to carpool up to the Pygmy
Forest. (Just south of the Little River Inn take the first
left/east--Little River/Airport Rd.--for 2.5 miles to left turn into the
Pygmy Forest parking area.) Back down to the campground for lunch and
the trail around the bog. Then a walk a ways up the Fern Canyon trail.

Sat., May 29: Mendocino Headlands State Park and follette cabin and
Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden. Meet 9:30 a.m. at the restrooms near
the northeast end of Heeser Dr. (From 101 take the north entrance to
Mendocino--Lansing St.--and the first right--Heeser Dr.) Local Sue
Smith and Wilma Follette will lead us. Then tour Follette's restoration
project and lunch on the bluff (From 101, north of Jug Handle Reserve
turn left/west on Boise Lane, left on Ocean Dr., right on Pacific Way to
33389--park back inside second gate on your left.)

Sun., May 30. Glass Beach and McKerricher State Park. Meet 9:30 a.m.
at the west end of Elm St. (--left/west at the last stop light at the
north end of Fort Bragg) for a flowery coastal prairie. Sue and Wilma
will lead us. Lunch at McKerricher State Park (--on 101 three miles
north of Fort Bragg.) Meet at Cleone Lake parking area. Botanizing in
the dunes and headland walk on boardwalk to seal and bird watching station.

Mon., May 31: Jug Handle Reserve and Russian Gulch State Park. Meet
9:30 a.m.m at the parking area for Jug Handle (__on the west side of
101, one mile north of Caspar). Headlands and beach, and then upper
pygmy forest (--from Gibney Lane on east side of 101). Go .9 mile to
"llama crossing" sign and trailhead on right with roadside parking.
Lunch at Russian Gulch State Park, three miles south, on the west side
of 101. Take first right/west turn inside the Park to the picnic area.
We'll walk the short headlands tail to the Blow Hole Overlook and hike
their Fern Canyon Trail--to the waterfall for the ambitious.

[Accommodations should be booked fairly immediately, given the busy
weekend.]
[Please tell Carol Ralph 707-822-2015 if you are thinking of or
certainly coming for all or part.]

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