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With there being so much snow this winter and me not having a high clearance vehicle and me liking to stay in cell phone range so I can rack up miles in Pokémon go, I have been staying closer to home. I’m always looking for new places to hike, I do get bored with the same old trails and the National Forest and Park are so dark and cold this time of year.
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| Planned route is in green, actual route is in red |
I plotted out a course to hopefully take me up Kamilche Ridge I saw a possible logging road hike
going in from Taylor Town, but it looked long and did not appeal. Then I saw another potential route starting
near Lake Isabella.
I set out not knowing where the road was that would taking
me up, but figuring I could find a way.
I did not even know where the first gate would be, so I did not know where
I would be parking. I plotted out what I
thought was a 4 mile round trip route on my GPS(r) .
The weather did not look great, but I need to go out and
hike if I want to shed some weight, so I
went in spite of the weather. I hit my
first gate at the Lake Isabella boat launch just a little ways past Lake
Isabella state park. Parking was tight,
there was no room to park in front of a gate and I don’t have a Discovery pass, so I could not park at the boat
launch. I found a tiny spot partly into
the black berries on the road near the driveway to the boat launch.
The first gate I went through said “private road” and “no trespassing” But the gate also had a Greed Diamond sign
saying it was open for hiking. I knew
the other signs were wrong. This road is
a Greed Diamond road that some homeowners are allowed to use to access their
properties. About half a mile down the
road I came to a second Greed Diamond gate and sign. This was the start of Greed Diamond’s
property and it was open to hiking.
My route up was nothing like I had planned, the roads were
not where I thought they would be and one road dead ended. It seems that all the local Greed Diamond
roads have trails that start right where they dead end, so dead end in the road is not the end of the
road for me. I found the trail and since
I had cell coverage I loaded up Google earth satellite view and could see
exactly where I was and how far I had to go to get to the next road. That was fun.
I made it to the top after a few wrong turns at about noon. I found a nice view to sit and have lunch. While I was finishing up my lunch a PUD crew arrived to work on the tower. As I was packing up to leave snow and wind and hail started coming down. I was a bit worried about Sage with no rain coat on. The snow and hail did not last for long though and the trip down was fast. I found a slightly shorter route down. I intend to come back and try a different road and route next time. I’m excited to find a whole new area close to home that I can explore without having to buy a pass.
I’m not ready to pay Greed Diamond $150 just to hike on
their tax shifted wastelands. I have to
save my money to pay all the property taxes that get shifted to me and everyone
else who lives in the state.
9 miles with about 1,000 feet elevation gain.
| What is a property tax shift?
“A property tax shift is a change in taxation that either
eliminates or reduces taxes for some properties and establishes or increases
taxes for other properties while the overall revenue to be collected stays the
same. In other words, the amount of taxes amassed by a government unit is
basically the same in the current and prior payable years, but the share of
taxes paid has changed for certain classes of property because the composition
of the tax base has changed. Properties typically having higher taxable
market values or make up a greater part of the tax base this year in comparison
to last year simply pay more of the property taxes.”
http://www.co.stearns.mn.us/PropertyRoads/PropertyAssessments/TheAssessorsCorner/PropertyTaxShifting
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