Lost Coast is about 25 mile long trail mainly on beach in Northern part of California which I wanted to do for a while. There were always a couple of problems why it was difficult to organize trip up there, the trail is one way trip, so the shuttle between trailheads needed to be solved and there are couple of places that are not possible to pass in high tide. Also 25 miles walking on beach require usually 3 days to do it.
Having spring break and more time I posted my idea about this backpack on Meetup.com website and found 5 other adventure people who wanted to join for this trip. We were watching the weather forecast quite closely, because rain could make some creeks difficult to cross, but the weather looked OK.... until the day when we left and changed completely! At that time we were already on our way, so rain or not we decided for this amazing backpacking trip.
On Saturday morning paid shuttle took us from the end to the beginning and we started. Knowing that our car is 25 mile away and there is no way back! The headwind was hard and it didn't take too long for rain to start. Walking on beach was really difficult so we were happy to make 8 miles the first day. The weather got better in the afternoon and we had nice day in the end. During the night rain came again. We were trying to wait in the morning with packing and leaving for the rain to stop but in the end we left around 11 am. The forecast said rain for the whole day, but in the end around 2 pm stopped and we had quite nice afternoon. Since we were cold and quite wet we kept walking to keep us warm until we passed the last high tide area and saw the end of our trail. It was around 6 pm and we had about 4 miles to go. Seeing the dry clothes in our cars made us try to finish the backpack. The last mile or two we were walking in dark, but with some moonlight and on black sand beach it had its magic. We got to the car around 9.30 pm and about two minutes after that the rain started again! Great trip!
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Lost coast je asi 40 km cesta prevazne po plazi v seveni casti Kalifornie, kam jsem se uz chvili chtela vydat. Vzdy se ale nasly duvody proc bylo tezke tento vylet zorganizovat. Cesta je jen jednim smerem, tak ze se musela vyresit doprava mezi zacatkem a koncem a take je tam par mist, ktere nejdou projit za vysokeho prilivu. Je nutno podotknout, ze 40 km chuze po plazi vyzaduje vetsinou 3 dny.
Jelikoz jsem ted mela jarni prazdniny tak jsem pres interentovou stranku Meetup.com nasla 5 dalsich odvazllivcu kteri se pripojili na tento vylet. Sledovali jsme pocasi pozorne, protoze dest mohl rozvodnit potoky tak, ze byly tezko prebroditelne. Predpoved vypadala dobre... az do dne, kdy jsme odjizdeli, to se uplne zmenila! Ale v tu dobu jsme uz byli na cesta a uz jsme nase rozhodnuti nezmenili!
V sobotu rano jsme si zaplatili prevoz z konce na zacatek vyletu. Vedeli jsme ze nase auto je 40 km daleko a ze neni uz cesty zpatky. Silny vitr foukal proti nam a netrvalo dlouho a zacalo prset. Chuze po plazi byla docela tezka a tak jsme byli radi, ze jsme zvladly 13 km prvni den. Pocasi se odpoledne trochu umoudrilo a my jsme meli docela pekny den. Behem noci ale zacalo znovu prset. Cekali jsme rano, jestli dest ustane ale nakonec jsme i za deste odchazeli v 11. Predpoved rikala dest po cely den, ale kolem 2 odpoledne prset prestalo a odpoledne bylo docela pekne. Protoze nam byla docela zima a byli jsme mokri, pokracovali jsem v ceste abychom se udrzovali v teple az jsme presli posledni misto, ktere by neslo projit za prilivu. To bylo kolem 18 hodin a my jsme meli asi jen 6,4 km do konce. Vidina sucheho obleceni v aute nas prinutila dokoncit cely vylet. Posledni 2-3 km jsme sli uz za tmy, ale pri trose mesicniho svitu a po cerne plazi to melo svoje kouzlo! K autu jsme prisli asi v 21.30 a asi dve minuty na to zacalo znovu prset! Skvely vylet!
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