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    A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island: Trails, Routes, and What to Bring
    A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island: Trails, Routes, and What to Bring
    A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island: Trails, Routes, and What to Bring
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    A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island: Trails, Routes, and What to Bring

    By Don Morris

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    Channel Islands National Park, immediately adjacent to millions of southern Californians, sees relatively few visitors because of the logistical and physical challenges involved in visiting any of the islands. This guidebook provides detailed advice on planning a trip, what essential items to bring, expected weather conditions, sketches of the natural and cultural history of the island, and detailed descriptions of possible walks on the island, ranging from strolls of a few minutes to overnight backpack trips. The author describes several routes that are not listed among the official maintained trails on the island. Routes are rated by relative difficulty and safety measures and skill levels are described for the prospective visitor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJun 2, 2006
    ISBN9781412210669
    A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island: Trails, Routes, and What to Bring

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      A Guide to East Santa Cruz Island - Don Morris

      A GUIDE TO 

       East Santa Cruz

      Island

      Don Morris

      © Copyright 2003 Clois Roberts. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval

      system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,

      mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written

      prior permission of the author.

      National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Roberts, Clois

            Nostradamus in an age of mass construction / Clois

      Roberts.

      ISBN 1-4120-0065-3

      ISBN 9781412210669 (ebook)

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      BF1815.N8R62 2003   133.3’092

      C2003-901420-7

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      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Useful Phone Numbers

      Introduction

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Acknowledgements

      My colleagues and friends on the staff of Channel Islands National Park and Island Packers have helped me learn and understand Santa Cruz Island in many ways over the past few years, in times both trying and enjoyable. I hope this guide does justice to their efforts.

      My wife, Susan, and my daughter, Alexandra, have given me wonderful support and encouragement.

      Useful Phone Numbers

      And Websites

      Introduction

      What is Special About Channel Islands National Park?

      Channel Islands preserves five of the eight California Channel Islands lying just off the coast of southern California. These islands contain superlative natural and cultural values. The legislation which established the Park in 1980 gives a little more detail-the park has outstanding breeding grounds for seals and sea lions, fabulous habitat for sea birds, thousands of archeological sites, plants and animals found nowhere else, beautiful and productive tide pools and kelp forests, and more. What is really wondrous about Channel Islands National Park is the solitude-the complete change of pace from the urgent urban lifestyle so common on the adjacent mainland.

      If you visit the islands you really should manage to stay at least one night. Then you will sense the different pace of the islands, while at the same time you will see the reflected afterglow of the bright lights of Los Angeles and environs in the distance. The calm of the largely undeveloped islands, their natural setting-simply looking at the night sky and seeing stars instead of smog-will convey the spirit of the islands more than my words ever can.

      Although adjacent to an area containing sixteen million people Channel Islands National Park is one of the least visited national park in the country. This isn’t because it is not worth a visit; the islands are either very difficult or very expensive (or, occasionally, both) to visit. This guide attempts to make your visit easier, safer, more fun, and more interesting.

      What Makes Me Think I Can Write about the Channel Islands? I was fortunate enough to serve as the park archaeologist from 1985 to 2001. During that time I visited the islands hundreds of times, in various weather conditions, accomplishing a variety of projects, in a lot of out of the way places. My duties included shipwreck investigations, so I spent a fair amount of time diving in park waters-locating and documenting some of the many vessels that have run into the islands. I assisted visitors occasionally, and gave pointers to the many volunteers who helped me in my efforts. Along the way, I realized that many people came to the islands poorly prepared, thereby significantly decreasing their enjoyment of these wondrous islands. This guide is my effort to pass on my understanding of the park and share my knowledge, some of which I learned the hard way.

      A Little About the Park: From my very first assignment here, I felt something very unusual about this park. It seemed to me that the staff was engaged in restoration, as opposed to parks such as Yosemite or Denali, where preservation dominated. I cringe when I see the park described as pristine, because it is just not so. Natural describes the park better and the landscape is certainly less hammered than the adjacent mainland, but 150 years of grazing and other uses have left their mark. Before the grazing era, the park islands served as home to at least 2,000 Chumash, whose history can be traced back 13,000 years to the end of the Ice Age. Thus during what we might term contemporary conditions, humans have always been part of the island environment. Now the islands are beginning a new and unprecedented phase of their history-a period without significant human occupation in which the preservation and enhancement of nature and history is paramount. The park is recovering from grazing, mostly in spectacular fashion, and the park staff acts as midwife to this rebirth. I have observed notable changes

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