California Lost Coast

This year, Troop 109 is planning to explore the Lost Coast of California for its High Adventure, summer, 2008. This beautiful place certainly qualifies as a dramatic landscape. It stretches roughly 80 miles along a rugged, lightly traveled coast, backed by a dozen peaks rising more than 2000 feet, crowned by the 4,087-foot hulk of Kings Peak. Two dozen year-round streams cascade down deep, steep-walled canyons in a landscape so rugged the highway builders just shook their heads and went elsewhere.

The rugged and remote Lost Coast offers North America's largest span of pristine beach and shoreline on the Pacific Coast outside of Alaska and Canada. Public lands here include 60,000-acre King Range National Conservation Area and 7400-acre Sinkyone Wilderness State Park together stretching 40 miles along the coast. The federal government first recognized the area's remarkable scenic and biological values in 1929 when it withdrew public domain lands here from sale. Congress created the King Range Conservation Area in 1970

While planning is still underway, this year’s High Adventure program will include backpacking the length of the 25 mile coastline trail in the Kings Range area. Tentative plans are to also do a trip through the Redwoods of Humboldt County.

Watch the Sneak Preview of the Lost Coast High Adventure