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A Recipe for Biodiversity What’s Inside To facilitate your safe, low-impact The remnant of an ancient volcano, Pilot Rock stands out as western coastal ranges. In addition, the Siskiyou Mountains experience of the Cascade-Siskiyou one of the most striking features of Cascade-Siskiyou National were not heavily glaciated in the last ice age and served as a National Monument’s vast array of unique Monument. Below Pilot Rock lies a landscape that awakens refuge for species whose habitat disappeared under tons of places and creatures, you will find in this continental ice. The final ingredients in the recipe for ecological the senses - a landscape where a short hike leads the explorer newspaper a directory of hikes, what diversity are the sudden changes in elevation and aspect that from the quiet grandeur of a cool, moss-covered forest to weather to expect, and a map. We hope affect sun exposure, moisture, and temperature throughout the a wildflower and boulder-strewn meadow with hundreds of you will enjoy your visit! colorful butterflies. From the meadow, one looks out across monument. the rocky ridges of the Siskiyou Mountains, the wide expanse Ultimately, diversity of habitat provides stability and resiliance. Nature & Education ...... 2 of the Shasta Valley, and the towering snow-capped volcanic When studied carefully, this remarkable array of plants and peak of Mount Shasta. The forest and the butterflies, as Science ...... 3 animals will provide scientists and visitors with answers to well as the mountains, volcanoes, and valleys, help tell the Monument Map ...... 4 questions about the complex biological and climatic history of ecological story of the area. the area.Biodiversity - Converging Influences Hiking ...... 6 The monument’s ecology is influenced by the region’s Camping ...... 7 extremely complex geology. A majority of the monument Partnerships...... 8 lies within the relatively young, volcanic Cascade Range.

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U.S. Department of the Interior Focus on Environmental Education Bureau of Land Management Medford District Office 3040 Biddle Road Dr. Stewart Janes Medford, Oregon 97504 The Environmental Monument Designation Education Department The Cascade-Siskiyou National at Southern Oregon Monument (CSNM) was established by University has a the presidential proclamation of William growing partnership J. Clinton on June 9, 2000, in recognition with the BLM and the of its remarkable ecology and to protect Friends of Cascade- a diverse range of biological, geological, Siskiyou National acquatic, archeological, and historic Monument to objects. The CSNM is part of the BLM’s become the providers for environmental National Conservation Landscape education on the monument. In 2011, System, preserving some of America’s we began “Fall in the Field,” a program most spectacular landscapes. In 2009 which brings school kids from the Rogue the Soda Mountain Wilderness was Valley to the monument for a day of designated by Congress, enhancing the learning and exploration. In addition, protection of some 25,000 acres in the the partnership offers graduate students southern portion of the monument. the opportunity to develop curriculum, create educational kits, and lead guided Location walks. The key benefit of this partnership The Cascade-Siskiyou National is the delivery of quality field-based Monument is situated where the environmental education to the region’s Klamath, Siskiyou, and Cascade K-12 community.Cascade-Siskiyou Mountain Ranges converge, setting the National Monument is situated in an area stage for a unique mixing of diverse of tremendous biological and geological habitats in a small area. CSNM is the diversity, difficult to match anywhere in first monument set aside solely for the the country. Within 30 minutes, students preservation of biodiversity. can be at 7,000 feet in the Siskiyou Environmental Education addresses Mountains or walk through coniferous Trails the issues of responsible stewardship forests, oak savannas, grasslands, Although set aside for its objects of and ethical land use. Our goal is to cottonwood-lined streams, or chaparral- biological interest, visitors are welcome train educators to meet the challenge covered hillsides. to explore the monument. One of the of developing awareness, promoting Conflicts over environmental easiest ways to explore CSNM is via the stewardship, and inspiring a sense of degradation and resource use are vital Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT) wonder for the natural world. A hands- concerns of our time. Creating greater that runs some 19 miles through the on program, it provides field-oriented public awareness of the processes monument. courses that broaden students’ scientific and complexity of ecosystems is understanding of the environment, Regulations essential to development of a land exposes students to environmental Cross-country travel by bicycle or vehicle ethic and responsible stewardship of problems and associated social conflicts, SEEC and you shall find. is prohibited. With limited exceptions, our natural resources. The Southern and prepares students to become the removal of any monument feature Oregon University Master’s Program in effective environmental educators. The Siskiyou Environmental Education Center or object is prohibited. Possessing (SEEC) serves as a hub for environmental or using mechanized or motorized About the Programs: The goal of the SOU – CSNM youth education networking and resources within the bioregion. Staffed by Environmental equipment such as ATV’s, game Classes are divided into small groups, education partnership: Education (EE) graduate assistants, SEEC carriers, generators, wagons, carts, generally 15 or less, with each group having 1. To serve the local K-12 school connects our graduate students with or bicycles is prohibited in the Soda two instructors. Mountain Wilderness. Special recreation community by offering quality standards- environmental education events, internships, based environmental education and jobs. They also provide much needed permits are required for organized The programs explore topics and concepts programming. environmental education expertise to local groups. Please contact the district office such as: for permit information. schools and non-profit programs. Our ever- • Biodiversity in forest habitats 2. Advance the monument’s interpretive growing collection of curriculum kits and and education themes through enjoyable Private Lands • Influence of geology on diversity of resources makes place-based and hands-on outdoor experiences. Private lands are found within and organisms lessons available to all educators in southern surrounding the monument. Please Oregon and northern California. The SEEC • Human relationships with the environment 3. Provide meaningful work opportunities office is housed in SOU’s College of Arts and respect and avoid private property when and experience for youth and SOU • Exploration of riparian habitats Sciences and is available for use by all EE exploring the monument. students. students. The SEEC office manages the day • Aesthetics, art and nature appreciation Hunting 4. Advance appreciation and awareness to day operations of the EE program. Hunting is a popular activity in the The field season generally runs from late of the monument and its unique features. monument. Hunting is regulated by the September to early November. Groups are led To reserve a hike or an education kit, 5. Foster a stewardship ethic among Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. on hikes that range anywhere from 1.5 miles contact a graduate assistant in the SEEC school age youth. to 3 miles. Teachers generally set aside 3/4 of office: a school day for the visits. Email: [email protected] Phone: 541-552-6876 Monument Guide 2 Science Beavers and Frogs Pilot Rock Geology Jad D’Allura, Ph.D. By Barb Morris, M.S.: BLM Employee, past Emeritus Professor of Geology, Interview with Dr. Michael Parker President Friends of CSNM, Science Educator Southern Oregon University

What’s so special about the Cascade- appealing. So, even though many people and Chytrid fungus that people can Pilot Rock, Southern Oregon’s very own Siskiyou National Monument? may never go see it, simply knowing there transport on their boots. Egg masses can “Devil’s Tower,” is a prominent 25.6-million- “The monument was proclaimed are places in the world like CSNM with its also be infected with Saprolegnia fungus. year-old volcanic intrusion of both historical and geological significance. The rocks it intruded because it’s a place where there’s incredible biodiversity is important.“ There is a virulent form in hatcheries that is deadly in the wild. So just about anybody are part of the Western Cascades volcanic exceptional biodiversity — the coming One of your primary research interests series, predecessors of the magnificent High who fishes in reservoirs with planted fish, together of different bioregions, different is the Oregon spotted frog (Rana Cascade Volcanoes. However, unlike the like Howard and Hyatt Reservoirs, picks physiographic regions, different climatic pretiosa). What are you finding? latter, very few landforms remain. All have conditions, different aspect and slope, up those fungus spores on their boots and been buried to a depth of over five to seven “The Oregon spotted frog is a kilometers, tilted to the east, and are very highly and geographic and geologic diversity. can transport it. People should be aware candidate for listing as threatened under eroded. That burial, and subsequent increase This allows species to co-occur that don’t of their potential impacts. Cleaning our the Endangered Species Act. in temperature and pressure, has slightly ordinarily co-occur. The idea that there is There are historical records of the frog altered the original minerals. Gradual uplift of a place in the world that has 135 species in Little Hyatt Reservoir, so when I first the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains has tilted Pilot Rock about 20° to the east. of butterflies is just magical! Even for arrived at SOU in 1994 I started looking scientists, that’s just ‘Wow!’ And from a for them there but never found them over scientific perspective, why are there so a number of years. As part of my aquatic many there? That’s an interesting question survey for the BLM, I walked the length you can explore.” of every stream in the CSNM from the headwaters all the way down. I found wetland ponds that seemed to have all the ingredients Jenny Creek near former Box O Ranch Prior to the onset of the Western Cascade volcanism, the climate changed from to support a population boots after every pond visit and providing of Oregon spotted subtropical to temperate. The previous good places for beavers to live are crucial. landscape was quite flat, allowing great frogs. In 2003 I took Human activity and behavior will likely rivers issuing from Idaho to flow across the my herpetology class to determine if the frogs make it.“ landscape. Eruption of the Western Cascade survey amphibians and volcanoes erected the first significant barrier we found a breeding So one species can make a huge to rivers flowing from the continental interior population of spotted difference to other species? toward the West Coast. An exploration of Pilot Rock geology begins at the quarry, where frogs that I’ve been “Absolutely. All those visitors can see 27 million-year-old lava flow monitoring ever since. interrelationships contribute to biodiversity. rocks and weathering phenomena. The walk The population is tiny, If we remove one piece of the puzzle, the to the saddle (where the old parking lot was) with only 11-20 females beaver, species diversity hasn’t gone down and down the closed road to the south follows Dr. Michael Parker holding a Spotted Frog breeding each year. It’s very much, but what’s missing because of the upper part of this flow. Local gooey soil just hanging on, and if this population that one piece? We still have the butterflies along the road is derived from the weathering of overlying softer volcaniclastic rocks (violently- Why is biodiversity important? ’winks out,’ it will have significant and the plants, but that landscape of ejected volcanic fragments). These soft “Each species is a unique product ramifications for conservation of the wetlands, wetland plants, and the birds rocks and soil are quite prone to slope failure of the evolutionary process; if for no species as a whole.” and mammals that use the wetlands, their (landslides). Exposures of the volcaniclastic pattern of movement across the landscape, rocks are visible on a ridge to the southeast of other reason, their biology is interesting. What can we do to help the frogs on that whole set of interactions is changed Pilot Rock. Most of those rocks are volcanic Biodiversity also provides ecosystem the monument survive? breccias (large angular blocks in a finer matrix) just by the loss of that one animal. Beavers services — clean air, water, soil — in which “My biggest worry is that those that represent debris flows that issued from are important ecosystem engineers. They long-extinct volcanoes. On that same ridge are we have a common interest, so there ponds are disappearing, and if the ponds is economic, ecological, and biological created many of those habitats, and if other intrusive rocks that pushed up through the go away the frog goes away. One very weaker volcaniclastic rocks. value to us. The word “biodiversity” was they’re allowed to continue that important important factor for frogs in particular and function it’s going to be beneficial not only coined by E.O Wilson, at a time when the aquatic biodiversity in general is beavers. Pilot Rock, the most impressive of these to the frogs but to biodiversity in general. intrusions, “baked” and oxidized (rusted) the accelerating pace of species extinctions The Oregon spotted frog population I’ve and loss of genetic information due to On Jenny Creek in places that surrounding rocks as it shoved them aside. been tracking is struggling due to cattail The hornblende-pyroxene andesite (the name human activities was becoming obvious. A cattle have been gone now for several encroachment as a natural part of pond “andes” was inspired from rocks described in major decline in biodiversity makes it much years, the willows and alders and broadleaf succession. The Oregon spotted frog is the trees started coming back, and beavers the Andes Mountains of South America) that less likely that a system can respond to makes up Pilot Rock is quite atypical and hence most aquatic frog species in our region and have reestablished. The beavers didn’t perturbations, whether natural or human. they require warm open water habitats. distinctively unique as compared to adjacent create huge ponds, but what they did do is rocks. Strikingly visual columns are cooling In addition to the practical things we’ve Beavers raise the water levels by dam been talking about — ecosystem services, raise the water table in the entire meadow features of the volcanic “neck” or throat of what building. Beavers and muskrats eat cattail may have been a long-eroded volcano. Radial the loss of genetic diversity and the ability which became a sponge that retains water tubers and create open pathways through much longer into the season. As a result, “dikes” (intrusions radiating from Pilot Rock as it to respond to environmental change — pushed up through the broken landscape) can the cattails, which is really important for flows in Jenny Creek are higher and cooler aesthetic value of biodiversity cannot be the frogs. be seen best to the east of Pilot Rock. overstated. Interesting species occurring which benefits both aquatic and riparian Another thing we worry about communities.” in an interesting landscape is aesthetically with amphibians are diseases like ranavirus Monument Guide 3 E

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Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from I-5 S to Exit 6 (Jct with Old Hwy 99) Follow Old Hwy 99 for 2 mi S to Sky King Cole Access 1.9 miles Pilot Rock Rd (40-2E-33) on left. Follow Pilot Rock Rd (staying left) to Pilot Rock Trail Intersection late May - October. 1 mile to Sky King Cole PCT crossing, where there is room to park.

Pilot Rock Access .9 mi to Pilot Strenuous. Trail is usually snow free from I-5 S to Exit 6 (Jct with Old Hwy 99). to Pilot Rock Rock Trail; .2 mil late May - October. Follow Old Hwy 99 for 2 mi S to Pilot Rock Rd (40-2E-33) on left. Follow Pilot Rock Rd (staying left) for 1 mi to Sky King Cole PCT crossing. to base of Pilot Rock Quarry parking is 1 mi further on the right.

Pilot Rock Access .9 mi to PCT Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from I-5 S to Exit 6 (Jct with Old Hwy 99). Follow Old Hwy 99 for 2 mi S to Pilot to Porcupine Gap Access crossing; then 1.6 mi late May - October. Rock Rd (40-2E-33) on left. Follow Pilot Rock Rd (staying left) for 3.8 mi, to Porcupine Gap. past Sky King Cole PCT crossing (1 mi) and Pilot Rock quarry parking (2 mi) to PCT access and parking at Porcupine Gap (1.8 mi). Rough road.

I-5 S to Exit 6 (Jct with Old Hwy 99) Follow Old Hwy 99 for 2 mi S to Pilot Rock Rd (40-2E-33) on left. Follow Pilot Porcupine Gap Access 3.3 miles Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from to Boccard Point Access late May - October. Rock Rd (staying left) for 3.8 mi, past Sky King Cole PCT crossing and Pilot Rock quarry parking (2 mi) to PCT access and parking at Porcupine Gap (1.8 mi). Rough road.

Boccard Point Access I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 8 mi to Buckhorn Rd on right, 2 2.9 miles Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from to Hobart Bluff Access (at Soda mi on Buckhorn Rd (staying left at Emigrant Creek and Buckhorn Springs late May - October. Roads) to Tyler Creek Rd, 2.5 mi on Tyler Creek Rd to Baldy Creek Rd on Mountain Road) right, 6.2 mi on Baldy Creek Rd to PCT crossing and parking.

Hobart Bluff Access 1.3 miles Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Soda Mtn Rd on right. Soda Mtn Rd (39-3E-32.3) 3.8 mi S to power line corridor and PCT crossing (at Soda Mountain Road) to top of bluff. late May - October. to Hobart Bluff Overlook and parking.

I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Soda Mtn Rd on right. Hobart Bluff Access Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from 4.3 miles Soda Mtn Rd (39-3E-32.3) 3.8 mi S to power line corridor and PCT crossing to Highway 66 Trailhead late May - October. and parking.

Highway 66 Trailhead I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Soda Mtn Rd Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from to Green Springs Mountain Loop 1.8 miles on right. Park at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument kiosk. Trail late May - October. begins across the road from the kiosk. Access

I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Little Hyatt Prairie Road Green Springs Mountain Access Trail is usually snow free from 2.2 miles (RT) Moderate. on left. Follow Little Hyatt Prairie Road .7 mi to 39-3E-32 on left. Follow Loop Trail late May - October. 39-3E-32 to signs for Green Springs Mountain Trail, and park in the small turnout. I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Little Hyatt Prairie Road Green Springs Mountain Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from 3.1 miles on left. Follow Little Hyatt Prairie Road .7 mi to 39-3E-32 on left. Follow Loop Access late May - October. to Little Hyatt Lake 39-3E-32 to signs for Green Springs Mountain Trail, and park in the small turnout.

Little Hyatt Lake Access 1.5 miles Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 15.5 mi to Little Hyatt to E. Hyatt Lake Road Access. late May - October. Prairie Rd on left. Follow Little Hyatt Priarie Rd (aka Keene Creek Rd) 2.8 mi to Little Hyatt Lake, parking below dam.

I-5 Exit 14 to Hwy 66 (Greensprings Hwy) 17.5 mi to E. Hyatt Lake E. Hyatt Lake Road Access 8.1 mi Moderate. Trail is usually snow free from Road on left. Follow E. Hyatt Lake Road 2.8 mi. The PCT trailhead to Willow Creek Road Access. late May - October. is located on the left right before the entrance to the Hyatt Lake Campground.

Monument Guide 6 Camping

Plan Your Visit Campgrounds Hyatt Lake Recreation Area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and is the only developed campground within Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Fees are charged for HYATT LAKE camping and day-use of these sites. Due to winter weather, campgrounds generally open in late April and close for the Recreation Area season at the end of September.

Hyatt Lake Campground The main Hyatt Lake Campground has 56 campsites (including drive-in and walk-in tent sites) and a site designated for Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT) hikers. Facilities include flush toilets, hot showers, a dump station, a fish-cleaning station, and 2 boat ramps with dock facilities. No electrical, water, or sewer hookups are available. Disabled access is limited. Sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Wildcat Campground For a more primitive camping experience, Wildcat Campground has 12 campsites with hand-pumped water and vault restrooms. Sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Horse Camp Horse Camp has a vault restroom and 5 sites, each with corrals. An access trail from this area connects riders directly to the PCT. Equestrian and stock users are required to feed certified weed- free feed.

Mountain View Group Shelter The Mountain View Group Shelter, overlooking Hyatt Lake and Mt. McLoughlin, accommodates up to 150 people. It is equipped with an electric stove, running water, tables, and a large fireplace.

Osprey Kitchen Osprey Kitchen is a group camping and day-use area with a covered cooking area, grill, group fire ring, and walk-in tent sites.

Reservations Reservations for the Mountain View Group Shelter, Osprey Kitchen, and Equestrian Camp can be made starting January 1st for the upcoming season. Contact the Medford BLM reservation line at 541‑618-2306. During the summer season you may call the ranger station at 541-482‑2031.

Hiking in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Ashland, Oregon Weather

While the monument is set aside for it objects of biological Month Average High (F) Average Low (F) Average Precip.(in.) Average Snowfall (in.) interest and their protection, visitors are welcome to explore January 46.5 29.9 2.65 3.5 the monument. The primary way to experience the Cascade- February 51.9 31.9 2.03 2.3 Siskiyou National Monument is by hiking the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT). The PCT runs approximately 19 miles from the March 56.7 33.7 1.98 1.8

southwest boundary of the monument to its northeast boundary. April 62.9 36.8 1.53 0.6 The facing page provides a list of access points and the distance May 70.2 42.0 1.54 0.0 (in miles) between access points. The list corresponds to the June 77.8 47.3 .99 0.0 monument map located on pages 4-5. July 86.9 51.8 .38 In addition to the Pacific Crest Trail, the monument has many 0.0 closed roads that locals use for hiking. The monument map in this August 85.9 51.0 .44 0.0

newspaper does not show closed roads in the Soda Mountain September 78.6 45.5 .83 0.0 Wilderness. Cross-country hiking within the monument requires a October 66.8 39.2 1.57 good topographic map and a compass. 0.0 November 53.4 34.1 2.78 0.5

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Monument Guide 7 Partnerships

The Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument The Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument fulfill our mission through The Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou education, advocacy, and outreach, with National Monument was established by occasional manual labor. Specifically: local residents in 2000. The FCSNM’s primary goal is to partner with the • Providing monetary and material Bureau of Land Management as support to K-12 education activites it carries out the mandates of the done on the monument. presidential proclamation. The Friends • Organize and facilitate guest lecturers mission statement has three parts: Keeping up with Contact Station Maintenance Hike and Learn Series at Pilot Rock and Hike and Learn opportunites on the Monument. • To advocate for and educate about • Staff Monument and Friends outreach the scientific and historic values for booth at community events such as which the CSNM was established; Ashland Earth Day, First Fridays and • To foster public support for the Free Fishing Day. protection of the area’s ecological • Assist with visitor contacts, scientific integrity and biological diversity. monitoring, and wilderness • To support BLM’s essential role in monitoring. protection and conservation of the • Fundraising. Soda Mountain Wilderness. www.cascadesiskiyou.org Fall in the Field School Program Friends at Earth Day in Ashland

Monument recreation may not seem like much, but these 19 Restoration miles put you high atop a crest offering team and partners The Xerces Society and the OR/WA State spectacular opportunities to experience Office completed a site management make strides in trail the monument’s diverse landscapes plan for the Mardon skipper. The Site maintenance: and remarkable views. The Hyatt Lake Management Plans were implemented Recreation Area and Campground also lie at three Mardon skipper sites in the As the first monument set aside to within part of the monument boundary. monument. Implementation included: protect its objects of biological interest, Adjacent to the monument is the Table • placing boulders to eliminate illegal off Monument Recreation Planner Nick Mountain Winter Play area and Buck Vern Crawford - Volunteer of the Year road access in key habitat areas; Schade knows that resource protection is Prairie Nordic Ski Trails area. Maintenance • removing conifers less than 8” in a top priority. “In many ways recreation Resource Protection diameter encroaching into meadows. planning takes on a much more essential After a winter of heavy snows and severe • installing education signs in high and sensitive role for a monument like Thanks to help from Student Conservation winds the PCT is often covered in fallen use areas to educate the public on the Cascade-Siskiyou,” says Schade. “It is not Association, recreation was able to trees, so annual log out is essential to ecology of the skipper and the goal of our business as usual.” stabilize and restore two popular access keeping the trail open and preventing restoration work. points (Emigrant Creek Road/Buck Rock trail braiding. Maintaining trails and trail Access and Green Springs Mountain/ access points is a multi-person full time PCT Access). Off-road parking, trespass job. Last year the monument log out and illegal “mudbogging” had degraded team, volunteers and youth conservation the sites and impacted aesthetic values. corps spent over 1300 hours completing Both areas were graded and stabilized. tread work, brushing work, and installing Improvements included rustic split rail stabilization and drainage features on the fencing, restoring hydrologic function, 19 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in the gravel parking base, defined parking, monument. The Lone Pilot Trail will be and rustic information kiosks providing completed in summer 2013. resource protection and trail information. Big Bend Trail Skills College The three-day Big Bend Trail Skills College, hosted by Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and Pacific Crest Trail log out the Pacific Crest Trail Association, is in its second year.The college features multiple sessions and areas of focus and expertise. Certifications are offered in crosscut saw use and chain saw use, Keeping up with it all as well as classes in tread construction techniques Some 19 miles of the legendary Pacific and hydrology management. Beginner sessions Crest National Scenic Trail cross through were held for basic trail maintenance and trail the monument’s administrative boundary. clearing. The BLM provided camping at the In addition there are about 2.5 miles monument’s Hyatt Lake Campground. There of spur trails off of the PCT to places were eight instructors and 37 participants. like Pilot Rock, Hobart Bluff, and the The college drew students from other federal Newly certified Learning how to Soda Mountain Fire lookout. 19 miles Mud bogging area on Emigrant Creek Road is sawyer at first annual cut in a trail at first agencies, members of trails organizations, and annual Trail Skills of designated trail within 60,000 acres repurposed into a small parking and trailhead Trail Skills College from the community. area College