{"id":17660,"date":"2026-08-24T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/?p=17660"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:53:12","slug":"pct-day-120-ca-section-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/pct-day-120-ca-section-n\/","title":{"rendered":"PCT DAY 120 – CA Section N"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mile 1342.2 to 1351.8 – 9.6 miles total hiked on PCT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I mentioned in the prior day\u2019s comments, I would only be going about 10 miles this day. I will stop at Wagner Valley campground to avoid having to carry a bear canister through Lassen national Park. 20+ miles in one day just was not possible for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I got up and headed north. Unfortunately, the green trees surrounding Feather River gave away to a burn zone fairly quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadly\ufffc, a good deal of the hike this day was through dead, burned out forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple spots where the trail kind of diverged in multiple directions with use\/social trails and the real trail going in opposite directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not for the first time this year, I found myself putting down some branches to try to divert people onto the right path (once I figured out where the right path was). I try to help where I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I passed a lake called Boiling Springs Lake. Lassen is a park with all kinds of volcanic features, but-quite frankly-I didn\u2019t really see a lot of activity out of this lake. Yeah it\u2019s obviously not a good place to swim or get water from, but it never seemed like there was any bubbling or activity around the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not sure if I\u2019ll see anything else volcanically active on my way out of the park the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started to see cabins and other buildings related to the Drakesbad Guest Ranch between the burned trees. Sadly, that meant that Wagner Valley wasn\u2019t spared from the fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I got to the campground, it was nice to see that there were some live trees. But the campsite I had reserved turned out to be in a burned area with most of the trees cut down. I should have chosen one of the other available campsites, but I didn\u2019t really have a lot of time or information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, not much shade and somewhat bleak looking. I also for the life of me couldn\u2019t find where they expect a tent to be put up. There wasn\u2019t a lot of level ground and what was there was kind of covered with debris and rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You wouldn\u2019t think I\u2019d need to do this in a real campground, but I made do with what I had. As the sun started moving through the sky, there was some shade, but I had to chase it most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One PCT northbound through hiker seen on the trail (the same one as the previous day). Passed about a half dozen day hikers when I approached Wagner Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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