Calif,Kern Co.,Wofford Heights
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Started on 2003-03-09
Calif,Kern Co.,Wofford Heights
From: Gwen & Don Jackson (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2003-03-09 17:07:22 UTC-08:00
Little Mama's B-day letterbox
Pam & Scott ,
7/20/02
Hike: Approximately 20-30 minutes along Cedar Creek, with some scrambling
over downed trees and boulders.Watch out for ticks, stinging nettle, and
clustered masses of Coccinellidae among the rocks and trees.
Directions: From Kernville drive southwest to Wofford Heights and take
Highway 155 west to the summit of the Greenhorn Range. Continue past the summit
for about 3 miles to Cedar Creek Campground. There are picnic tables and porta
potties near the parking area. Find the trail that heads up stream. You will see
two shallow cave/mine shafts on the right side of the trail. Walk a bit more and
you will see a 30 ft. waterfall. Scramble up the left side of the waterfall, and
you will pass by other smaller falls and pools. At the last pool (approx. 15ft.
x 12 ft.) and falls cross the creek and continue up stream.
Keep the creek on your left, scrambling over a
series of downed trees.. Look for the first true
"fork" in the creek.It will be about a 10 minute walk from the last pool. At the
"fork" you will see a definite side canyon coming in from your right. Stand at
the fork and look upstream for a large letter "V" formed by a tree stump on the
left side of the main channel of Cedar Creek. Go to the base of the stump by the
creek and take 4 paces upstream, then turn 90 degrees to the left. Take 5 paces
up the bank and you will see 2 boulders forming a mouthlike crevice. Reach into
the mouth of the giant, and tip the rectangular right "molar" in the giant's
mouth to retrieve the letterbox.
After finding this letterbox look to where X marks
the spot.