Trip 7: The American
Eagle Gorge, North Fork American Wild and Scenic River Canyon, Level
3 Overniter.
This outing offers a great wilderness camping experience, unique pools, gorges and a big boulder jumble with car and truck-sized rocks.
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The
American Eagle mine with it's huge stamp mill built in 1887 at the Risdon Iron
Works in San Francisco California proudly stands on its concrete pedestal above
the river.
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We
hike in on the Italian Bar Trail 2.3 miles with 3000 feet of elevation loss.
This is a steep toe jamming trail. At the bottom we tour the Italian Bar mining
site, inflate our mattress and eat a snack
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From here we have 2 days to cover 4 miles of
canyon bottom. We start with a hike through a very nice gorge then we begin
looking for our campsite on left side of the river.
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Day
two consists of more scrambling and floating through gorges and a tour the
American Eagle mining site. Then, we continue onto Humbug Canyon, Dorer Ranch
and the Euchre Bar Trail South which is about 2 miles long and has 2200 feet of
elevation gain to the trail head.
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