Sharla had heard several people along the way talk about the steep mountain after Crescent City. So, of course, that had her dreading it and lost a little sleep over it. We got on it fairly early before there was much traffic. We stopped at least every half mile on the way up to rest. Ed led as he is a good pacer. The first mountain was about 1200' elevation gain. At the base of that mountain, there was a tourist attraction called Trees of Mystery that we stopped at. There was a free Indian museum that we enjoyed looking through but we didn't pay the charge to take some tram into the redwoods. In the afternoon we had another 1100' mountain to climb. So we conquered the first 2 mountains of northern California! After that, it was downhill through the redwoods. We felt we were in the midst of giants. There was a couple we stopped at...one called the Corkscrew and the other called Old Tree that they figure is 1500 years old, 17 ' in diameter. These huge, old trees are pretty amazing. Soon after that, we got into our campground--Elk Prairie. About a 9 to 5 workday and 34 miles. After dinner, we sat and talked with a single gal, Laura, from Toronto who we've been at the same camps 3 to 4 times in the last 1 1/2 weeks. She's bicycling from Vancouver to San Francisco.
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