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Trail stats

Distance: 0.85 mi
Elevation gain: 20 ft
Technical difficulty: Difficult
Elevation loss: 495 ft
Max elevation: 1,380 ft
TrailRank: 61
Min elevation: 888 ft
Trail type: One Way

Time: 36 minutes
Coordinates: 171
Uploaded: April 20, 2011
Recorded: April 2011

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near Auburn, California (United States)

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Itinerary description

Tracks start at the Cardiac Hill Auburn State Recreation Area gate on Maidu in Auburn and ends above Oregon Bar. These tracks and waypoints were logged in an effort to document the impact of a landowner that is marking his land and placing signage on the trail. The distance between waypoint 38 and 40 is .4-miles with 310-feet in elevation changes. There is no additional signage or property boundary posts past waypoint-38. The total distance is 1.1-miles with 800-feet in elevation change.

Please click on waypoints for more details and pictures including details on the sections of trails that cross the newly placed property boundaries. Waypoint-27 is the starting point for boundary stakes, waypoint-38 is the end.

Waypoints

023

Signage just past Cardiac Gate on Maidu and remnants of the old Mountain Quarries R.R.

024

Shot-up trail marker.

025

First marker designating the trail as part of the Pioneer Express Trail and Western States Trail (Western States has worn off).

026

Pioneer Express Trail mile marker 53.5

027

Beginning of the signage and Private Property signs just below the PCWA canal. Picture #3 shows the perimeter of the fencing of the property owner. Quite surprisingly within two-days the landowner has built a small-pump house fed by the PCWA canal (picture added on 4/22).

028

Trail crosses into private property at this waypoint.

029

Private property sign on one of the numerous side-trails in the area. Interesting to note that it's not a no-trespassing sign. One may conclude that the land owner is aware of possible easements and public right-of-ways to the historic mining trails that dot the area and is discouraging access.

030

View of landowner built road scaring the landscape down towards Oregon Bar, sad:(

031

Trail exits Private Property.

032

More property boundary signs.

033

Fence posting and Pioneer Express / Western States trail marker crossing into private land. Another example of posted 'Auburn State Recreation Area ends here' signage.

034

Exiting private property.

035

Pioneer Express Trail mile-marker-53 abutting private property stakes.

036

Area on the trail that abuts private property boundaries with Pioneer Express Trail / Western States trail marker.

037

Property posts and markings cross the trail.

038

Pioneer Express Trail / Western States trail marker and signage on the Oregon Bar connector trail.

039

Day use shot of a local fisherman.

040

Bottom of Cardiac Hill

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