The Hikers 365 Challenge: Before heading back home, we decided to get one last hike in on the Quarry Trail to Limestone Rockwalls trail. This trail had some cool features, one being the Hawver Mined Cave, while closed off, there are talks about eventually opening it once it’s been made safe to enter. In 1906 some high school kids found bones and prehistoric fossils inside the cave. For now it’s a cool space to get some natural air conditioning on a hot day when the winds kick up from inside the cave.
As you hike a bit further on, it’s like you’ve entered a completely different landscape. Large rocks shoot up from the ground and rock climbers are testing their skills all around. It was so cool to watch them.
Make sure you pack some extra water on a hot day! There are some areas to go down to the river, but it’s quite the scramble down.
Note: From the trail you can see the Foresthill Bridge, which soars 730 feet above the stream bed of the American River’s North Fork, is reputed to be the 3rd highest bridge in the United States and the tallest in California. The bridge can be seen in the beginning of the 2002 film XXX in which Vin Diesel’s character Xander Cage is seen driving a stolen red corvette off it, then jumping from the car mid-flight and parachuting to his accomplices at the bottom of the American River Canyon.
📍Indigenous lands of the of Maidu (Nisenan) and Miwok Indians, occupying a village on the outskirts of the City of Auburn in Placer County.
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🗺️ Location: Auburn State Recreation Area
🥾 Mileage: 3.95 miles
🐾 Animals: 1 banana slug, polliwogs 🐸
🌿 Plants: SO much poison oak
🚽: porta potties at the trailhead and a few other times on the hike
🎒Pack Weight (training time): 13 lbs
🅿️: there is limited fee parking at the trailhead or free parking along the side of the road.
#️⃣ Total Mileage For 2024: 133.55 miles
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