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Northern California's Trinity River - Travel
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Of California's rivers,
the Trinity is among the wildest, the most remote, and the most beautiful.
Flowing out of Northern California's primeval Trinity Alps west of Redding,
the Trinity River winds and twists its way into a narrow gorge before
flowing through mountain valleys and emptying into the Klamath River.
In The Klamath Knot, David Rains Wallace describes this country as
a kind of mythic wilderness, one that did not yield its secrets easily.
"Early explorers were stymied by these canyons," Wallace writes
of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. "In 1828, Jedediah Smith and
his party of fur trappers gave up in despair. ... The terrain was too
rugged even for these mountain men."
Exploration of the
Trinity is much easier today. Even so, it is a journey into a place
whose wildness will energize you and linger in your mind.....You
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