Salmon Mountain: Red Cap Lake
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Klamath National Forest Shasta-Trinity National Forest Six Rivers National Forest DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 Red line for day 4. Click for map. (Day 4 of 6 4.) I woke up with a sore throat, not that it had gotten visibly smokier. I was pretty much decided on not wandering down Devils Backbone Trail when I got there, anyway. A day down and a day back seemed to just get the hard bits while leaving no time to poke around an area that probably has a lot of trails for a reason. There's a few other trailheads to give access to the area, too. I had a little breakfast and packed up to hike all the way out via Red Cap Lake. The morning light flows into the lands below. It takes a while to get out of shadow at Rock Lake. Morning view of Salmon Mountain from Rock Lake. Light was just getting to the iffy camp sites on the west side as I headed down the good trail. Not worried about time, I cleared the trail a bit as I went. There were a couple big things I cou