BLACK BEAR WILDERNESS 14-MILE HIKE AND CAMP WORKSHOP
Details
(Some of the Homies will be carrying full backpacks due to their training for a 72-mile hike November 17 - 22, 2025. Nonetheless, everyone is welcome. You can go around with us once or eat your sack lunch and hike a second time.)
Arrive at 8AM. This 7-mile trail is a loop. We'll go counterclockwise.
At Mile 3, we'll arrive at the primitive camp site and set up camp. Bluberry will unfold a course on how to Leave No Trace. Afterward, we'll pack up and continue on. (If you’re NOT training, please stay; you'll enjoy Bluberry's invaluable take on it.)
Back at the trailhead, we'll have lunch.
We'll repeat the hike one more time and continue on to the parking lot and call it a day.
Today you will have reached the endurance level that the trail will expect from you for six days in November. Finishing the hike today will leave you with more peace and more confidence for what's ahead.
Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand became the first recorded man to reach the summit of Everest in 1953, the South Pole in '58 and the North Pole soon after. He said, "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves".