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Anil Mitra, Copyright © July 26, 2026

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Plan

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Priorities

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Introduction

My life

Functional

Pathways

Status – to be used for pathways in master (minimally), axiomatic, minimal (briefly), and informal (briefly, if at all)

Long

Brief

Criteria to implement

The way of being

Status – see the status comments for each section

Being

Status – entered

In a nutshell

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Consequences

Status – for use in a revised, minimal informal version

What are you?

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On possibility

Status – entered.

The universe

Status – entered.

From the recordings

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Ultimate truth

Status – may be entered to axiomatic, master, and, possibly, informal and minimal

Trinity Alps June 2026

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Issues with “the standard account of natural progression of aging towards death“

Status – for information only

Clean slate

Status – the essence of this will be in 2027

Design

Slate

Return

Status – ‘used’

Ideas for trips and similar activities

Status – entered to planning; secondary use only

The Cry of the Raven - by Richard Nelson

Status – for information and possible basis for a published review

Introduction

On communal intelligence

My thoughts

Trinity Alps Wilderness

Status – primarily for information

Terrain

Weather

Water

Plant communities

Wildlife

TRINITIES JUNE 2026

Plan

Status – in-process, eliminate the section when complete

Format all level 1 headings with modifiable or externally useful material red.

Modify or enter material to appropriate documents; return to standard heading format.

When complete, eliminate this section.

Priorities

Status – has been used to make a flash card and is no longer primary

Essentials are shaded. Shading for secondary content.

Introduction

These priorities are like a flash card for my life. And I will carry this around with me on my iPhone and perhaps a flash card in a wallet.

The priorities ought to be what is essential regarding what I want to accomplish and regarding the blocks to that accomplishment.

They could be changed, the essence improved, new insights incorporated; however, to be useful, it should not be lengthened. However, perhaps some elaboration in terms of the hidden text formatting of some word processors may be useful.

In fact, this approach may be useful in shortening the current version. As an example, the details regarding people in the functional priorities could be shortened with hidden text-e.g., such text below could be anything below the numbered points.

My life

Being, knowing, and becoming in the limitless world - immediate and the ultimate.

Sharing – becoming – the process: mutual discovery, aid, and sharing.

Functional

The world

The world – my world – courage and intelligence.

For me

For me – above all, recognize that the root cause of my people issue is within me. It has to do with them only secondarily. Secondarily– Train myself to subliminally recognize internal positivity and negativity and use the former toward my goals and the latter to centering. Finally— consider therapy.

Note

Note – I should come up with some simple means recognizing the negative arising within me so that I can then deal with it immediately except as far as there is some other emergent issue at hand!

People with motto and details

People

People – in order of performance:

Motto

Motto - “It’s me, not them” - regarding who is responsible!

Details

Project my thought – reality and ‘self‘ (perhaps request encouragement, possible assistance; and think about how to do so).

Kindness, encouragement in their lives, and sharing with others (if anger arises in me – it is in that I have, perhaps unawares, internalized their “impression”).

Negotiate functional change in relationships

Being aware of and working around vs directly communicating the difficulty.

And likely to be met with the resistance – according to the book that has something to do with dealing with people.

Point out – indicate subliminally – behavior that is destructive (to me?) and set careful and intelligent limits.

Such that I can follow through and have the courage to follow through.

Cease to engage on issues where the communication is destructive …

For example, the issues on which they are poorly thought out in terms of reasoning and consequences, and or stated, superior, condescending, sarcastic, or aggressive tone.

And if the manner is as above in most interactions, I should cease to interact with such people altogether.

Regarding which, ask the question of myself “How important is this relationship, to me, to them, and the world? And would I, the world, and perhaps, they be better without the relationship?”

Pathways

Status – to be used for pathways in master (minimally), axiomatic, minimal (briefly), and informal (briefly, if at all)

Long

Review and elaborate the following.

Things that need attention to and summation

Metaphysics at all levels with psychology, which emphasizes how to implement.

Time and space

Immediate in the ultimate.

The local to the global through the university

Don’t reinvent the wheel, employ elements of existing practices, ancient to modern don’t get stuck in a rack gauge think I’d outside the box integrate.

Some practices

Advaita Vedanta and Yoga – meditation as being, physical yoga as, correspondingly, conditioning the body, translation into meta reflection, self-reflection, and action.

Buddhism – four noble truths: its cause as attraction and aversion, getting rid of the cause gets rid of suffering, the eightfold way has to get rid of attraction and aversion. The eightfold, noble path: wisdom – right view, right intention; action: right speech, right action, right livelihood; mental state: right effort, write mindfulness, write concentration.

Mysticism as experience of the ultimate in the immediate.

Stoicism: seeing clearly without distortion, acting in alignment with truth and virtue, choosing which impressions to accept – meaning if someone seems angry at you, it is not necessarily about you, amor fati– loving unfolding reality as the field of practice.

Modern contemplated science – Meta awareness and attentional training; predictive, processing and dissolution of rigid self-models; embodied cognition; meditation as a laboratory for transformation.

But there’s a further consideration on practice – all these practices seem to assume that we want to achieve some ideally defined ideal state… And while there is a peak state, it’s not necessary, Nirvana… And while there is a process, it is not necessarily a process that eliminates all pain and suffering… And while that might be recognized when some of those practices… The consideration is that we ought at least some of the time in some ways, integrate pain and pleasure / achievement, and failure.

How to attend

The planning scheme

Driving periods moment eternity.

Set plan and routine versus release versus innovation.

That we don’t think we have a final metaphysics in all ways, and we don’t think we have a final method of program.

Individual/community/being.

Dimensions/categories.

Attention to the cosmology the dynamics, and what is already written in pathways in the minimal version.

Program

High level - I am that, aim at it, meditate on it.

Low level – nature/beyul (I’ve done it these past decades) … society and culture: immerse, help others achieve, do good work.

Brief

Pathways – brief

Review, elaborate, minimize.

Elements with resources.

Metaphysics with psychology.

Mind, body.

Individual, community.

Levels of being.

Practices—but balance between what is identified as perfection and achievement.

Issue of pleasure and pain (suffering).

Elements with resources—summed and streamlined.

How to develop a program.

For development.

…

For realization.

Periods (moment to eternity), routine, release, spontaneity.

Practice, action.

Elements

The program.

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Criteria to implement

To have realism

Metaphysical (real)

Psychological (individual capacities and range of individuals)

Material (individual and social resources)

The way of being

Status – see the status comments for each section

Being

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EXPERIENCE is awareness in all its forms and kinds.

The idea of an object is that it may be either real or as-if, e.g., fictional as in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street, London. Sherlock Holmes is an object in that, although he is not real, we can talk of him as if he were real, and he may seem real in our imagination (note that while there is a mental object, that object is the concept, and it is not the as-if object).

The structure of an experience is (i) ‘experience of’ – the CONCEPT (ii) ‘the experiential relationship’ - its INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIP to (iii) ‘the as-if experienced’ - an OBJECT (PURE EXPERIENCE is only conceptual).

A BEING is the real object of a concept. BEING is that which characterizes beings as beings (fiction provides an example of an object that is not a being: all beings are objects, but not all objects are beings).

(Note that this preliminary distinction between ‘being‘ and ‘object‘ will be dissolved later.)

(There can be no being that is not known at all, i.e., that is not knowable.)

Thus, a being as a being, is not just a bare being: it is a concept-object. A concept is a being; the most general kind of being / object is the concept-object.

One reason objects are sometimes introduced as different from beings is that we are then able to talk about possible objects, necessary objects, and nonexistent objects.

However, what we have just seen is that being and object-hood – – beings and objects – – are identical, and therefore we do not really need the concept of an object. Thus, we can consistently invalid me talk about possible beings, necessary, beings, and nonexistent beings.

Explain why, or how I come to the conclusion in the paragraph above, there seems to be no good written reasoning behind it above.

Nonetheless, I will continue to use both terms because what the following connotations mean are not strictly inherent in the terms, but useful: ‘being‘ suggests full – bodiedness while ‘object hood’ suggests abstraction.

In the minimal version on the way of being, I equated being and existence without explanation.

So, what is existence? It is sometimes used with the connotation of existence – alone. Which is intended to mean existence without being known-at-all, that is, “bare being“, that is, without being knowable. However, there is no existent that is not knowable. Therefore, it is valid in some systems of meaning, particularly the present one, to equate existence and being.

Yet, we use both terms – existence and being – but it is sometimes useful to use the first term in the sense of bare being, and the second in the in the bare sense together with the connotation of depth.)

Thus, being, existence, and objecthood all identical in the present system, even though they are often thought of as distinct– and maybe distinct in some valid systems. Yet, once again it should be noted that the three terms may be maintained even in the present system because they have different connotations and suggestive power.

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‘BE-ING’ (not ‘being’) is that which, with elaboration as to depth and richness, characterizes a being (thus, we talk of our or human be-ing; however, it will not always be necessary to use the hyphenated form of ‘being‘).

Experience is the place (though not the entire source) of our be-ing and all that is of SIGNIFICANCE is to us.

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One of the points of this exercise is about sophistication. That is, sophistication in a good sense. period. In the examples we've seen here, sophistication leads to better understanding and then into simplicity. That is of course, not always the case. It may fail to lead to simplicity, because we find it too difficult, or because it is aborted. In either case, however, it is important to remember that one of the purposes of thinking is not merely academic. It also employs the results of thinking, particularly of philosophy, in understanding life and living. Get on with life and living, perhaps, with a better outcome.

The point – points above – is Meta thought, that is, thinking about thinking and what one can learn from a particular example of thought, which, in this case, is this piece.

In a nutshell

Status – for use in the minimal version and to modify previews in longer essays

The main communicative points about which the body of the way of being will be built.

Being as that which is, is important for its neutrality, and so, a framework for the universe – what is there, knowledge of it, and being and becoming within it.

Experience as feeling, thinking, willing, and so on, and more, is fundamental as (i) the place of our being and knowing and significance (ii close an expression of the universe enjoying itself and so this is just an example. (iii) it will be seen that experience is the or a fundamental characteristic of the universe from primitive elements to beyond – the kind of being we are to peak or ultimate being.

The universe, and therefore all beings, have identity; which is the realization of the greatest possibility; and therefore, limitless in variety, extension, duration, peaking, and dissolutions, cycling without circularity, and without end.

Our world, the immediate, and the ultimate, or one, even though we do not experience this while immersed in limited extension, duration, and levels of being.

There are effective pathways from the immediate to the ultimate, which support immediate, are connected to the ultimate, and therefore are all an ultimate worth.

Pleasure and pain (suffering) are essential elements of the pathways, and while there is no promise of ultimate Nirvana or heaven, there is a promise of enjoyment and great pleasure in the pathways. Pain and suffering cannot be avoided, but our best addressed by sharing, by the fortunate helping the less fortunate– the stronger helping the weaker – the privilege helping the less privileged, by appropriate therapy, and in the knowledge that at least some pain is part of the way to the ultimate.

The pathways may derive from tradition, but R not, and for effectiveness cannot be bounded by tradition, or negotiated, with focus on the dimensions and levels of being.

Programs will attend to these levels and dimensions; there will be planning and routine; however, routine is not an end in itself, but is the foundation of, first, and effective pathway, and equally, if not more, of creative, knowing, discovery, being and becoming on a pathway.

Consequences

Status – for use in a revised, minimal informal version

The Universe is limitless in extension, duration, level of being, variety, peeking, and dissolution – which cycle endlessly with and without repetition, without circularity.

There are cosmoses without limit and variety, for example, without variety as to laws such as physical laws.

Every cosmos is an atom, and every atom of cosmos – the universe is fractal.

It is effective to name the peak of the peakings– ‘God’ or ‘Brahman’ (but we ought to be careful to avoid limited or negative connotations of those terms).

A particularly meaningful use of these terms is therefore, perhaps one in which we are part of and the process of speaking and dissolution.

For beings in their limited form, therefore, realization of the ultimate is given.

However, there are effective pathways to the ultimate, which it is effective for limited beings to discover, negotiate, share, and follow.

Pathways do and should begin in the immediate world, and the following of a pathway promotes both the immediate and the ultimate.

What are you?

Status – for information and conversation

Many people do not know the answer– perhaps because it is not of interest in them – to the question “What are you?”

People will of course have answers, but what I mean by ‘know’ is that to know the answer it should be.

Non-trivial, worth knowing, and having good instrumentality in their lives and in the world.

Ultimate rather than only proximate.

In principle complete.

On possibility

Status – entered.

If W – possibility is possibility for world W, then Possibility is just u-possibility where u is the universe (for the universe is a/the world).

Of course, “W“ need not be a world, it could be any being, especially and experiential being, E.G., a human being.

Given limitations in extension, duration and levels of being, W – possibility is not or, perhaps is usually not, possibility, which is “U“ or universal possibility. But if those limitations are lifted, then all W possibilities are identical to possibility, which is universal possibility.

The universe

Status – entered.

The universe is the realization of the greatest possibility.

And therefore, the universe has identity and must confer this power on all beings (we shall use the capitalized term ‘Universe’) to refer to the universe and all beings and its identity.

From the recordings

Status – no longer needed

In the minimal version, consider the order and titles of the sections, and whether the sections need to be kept.

Ultimate truth

Status – may be entered to axiomatic, master, and, possibly, informal and minimal

Because some people say that to seek ultimate truth is ‘dangerous’ or ‘sacrilegious’, let us seek to define ultimate truth as “The way things are and should be, as well as that which should be known”.

However, given the first ‘should’ in the tentative conception, the second ‘should’ is implicit and so let us make the definition—

Ultimate truth is the way things are and should be.

Trinity Alps June 2026

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Thursday, June 4: a walk to the BLM Meadow and a little further, R.H. was not there, another walk of Canyon Creek Road, a short one, 3 miles, 1 1/2 hours.

Friday, June 5, Ripstein to the first creek, a short walk up Bear Creek Trail, back to Ripstein, onto the first bridge south from Ripstein and back: 5 miles, 2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, June 6, Epstein to the second bridge and the 10-mile point and beyond a little bit, back up to Canyon Creek trailhead and back: 8 miles, 3 to 3 1/2 hours.

Sunday, June 7, Ripstein to the third bridge, which is the Fisher Creek Bridge, a little beyond back to Ripstein, the trailhead and back: about 9 miles, five hours.

Monday, June 8, Ripstein to the first creek, then down to the first bridge and a little beyond – the overlook at the wrecked cars, and back to Ripstein: about 7 miles, 3 to 3 1/2 hours.

Tuesday, June 9, Ripstein to the 10 Mile point and back, and a few short walks, about 5 1/2 miles, a little over 3 hours.

Wednesday, June 10, same as Sunday, June 7 – – it is getting warmer.

Thursday, June 11, same as Tuesday, June 9– – yet warmer.

Friday, June 12, up to Canyon Creek trailhead, the trail the first creek crossing – just a short distance – back to the trailhead and about 2 1/2 miles up Bear Creek Trail, about 8 miles, about 4 1/2 hours.

Saturday, June 13, short walks, building energy of the Canyon Creek Trail and getting ready for the hike up Canyon Creek.

Sunday, June 14, Ripstein to The Sinks, 4 1/2 maybe 5 miles, a slug, 6 hours.

Monday, June 15, short hikes up and down the trail.

Tuesday, June 16, The Sinks two Canyon Creek Falls to Canyon Creek Meadows, and its famous swimming hole, climb, maybe 6 miles round-trip, stopping along the way to appreciate place on the scene, about five hours. This was the day on which I saw Brian, his daughter, and his daughter's girlfriend, at Canyon Creek Falls on the trail. I had met them earlier at The Sinks. It was the girlfriend who skipped effortlessly and confidently down the difficult trail to the bottom of the falls.

Wednesday, June 17, it is too hot to do anything much, especially given the insect situation, getting ready for the trip back down to Ripstein.

Thursday, June 18, the reverse trip of Sunday, June 14, downhill 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

Friday, June 19, “guests“– Alejandro, Richard, Kevin: techies from the Bay Area sharing my campsite – clouds, thunder, rain… But not really enough to get things wet. Just walking around, passing time, missing the comforts of civilization, probably walked about 4 miles. At the canyon Creek trailhead, someone was getting rid of a whole unopened bag of honey Dijon kettle chips because they didn’t want to leave it behind in their car and have it attract bears – they offered it to me, and I happily accepted having not had any unhealthy food or over two weeks and getting tired of my limited diet. It was a 7 1/2-ounce bag of chips, and I ate about half of it – the chips, not the bag – and then put the rest in the trash because unhealthiness is great in moderation. Ugh, did I crash and I don’t want to drink any coffee or tea because I want a good sleep tonight. Today is my last full day here.

Saturday, June 20, the final day in the Trinity Alps – packed, said, farewell to the three young techies from the Bay Area, waited for Stephanie, who arrived at about 11:20 AM. Then to lunch at the Tangle Blue Saloon in Weaverville - to Strawhouse in big flat for coffee and a brownie and on back to Stephanie‘s at McKinleyville. Having spent 16 days in the Trinity Alps the ride on the mountainous road in the brilliant sunshine was as if in a dream.

Issues with “the standard account of natural progression of aging towards death“

Status – for information only

It is talking about death from natural causes, for which the standard deviation should be taken into account (an issue to be looked up upon return to home.

It does not take into account death from other causes.

While knowing and planning is good, it avoids existential issues essential to what we are, and it can shut us down in itself to living fully, and it is a part of that kind of cultural phenomenon which sees us as mere processes beginning at birth and ending in death.

Clean slate

Status – the essence of this will be in 2027

Design

Programmable, renewable (can go back to zero)

Frames

Being

…

Time

…

Slate

Currently open– and to continue to have elements of openness–see the note “Return“.

To be placed elsewhere, with perhaps a passing reference here

This may be too much detail and may need to go somewhere else, but here’s a thing.

Beyond good and evil, beyond right and wrong, beyond correct and incorrect…, and above all, beyond prescriptivism, and beyond that as– if unseen and artificial, but pervasive authority, which is (for one thing), the baseline for those without foundation in the real, and for those who would wish to confer authority on themselves by reference to a nonexistent God (the religion of the non-religious), at nonexistent but ever looming recourse of the conservative mind.

Return

Status – ‘used’

Clean slate, two days a week attention to what is fundamental for me for the rest of my life.

X - bike, excursions, and aerobic strengthening, have routine

Map out the rest of my life.

I guess that to do the greatest thing, Ibe must do it without dependence or interference from those who are close to me. I might need to minimize or, unfortunately, eliminate certain interactions; actually, elimination is both unnecessary, and perhaps destructive; what I should do, is first totally dedicate myself to being – for example, eliminate most evenings on Netflix and dedicated to my work and then explain that I have reduced availability in time.

Order bulk grains, and leggings online and other stuff is cheaper!

Copilot to help with the above with emphasis on protein and health and muscle mass and weight loss combined with exercise.

Copilots to help with “the world”, automating it with VBA.

Debrief (possible next trip)

Layout, prioritize, parallel, sequence, minimize all notes.

Organize this.

Collect and organize photos.

Packing

Dessert

Micro ground coffee

Add hydrocortisone to the replenishment list.

Mend sleeping bag.

Dealing with heat, insects, minimally

Most effective way of maximizing battery use

Do sesame sticks and peanuts or other nuts make whole protein?

Camping

How to camp– possibilities: transportation (CDL), others; tarp, chair, table, lighting, writing, electrical outlet, or large charger, cabin, etc.

Milk powder equals 3 tablespoons per cup.

Alpha –Camp large tents

Axiomatic (with map).

Minimal (with map)

Live in interaction with changing map

Finance, insurance, medication, location, and activity options – from now to the end of my life.

The people issue.

It’s me – even if it’s them, it’s me.

One life ends, another begins, and the cycles continue; all lying within and finally identical to the limitless life of Being.

Copilot

Ground - money, place, …

“The world “, using VBA, not a fixed routine, but a varying schedule selected from a menu of activities, which will include spontaneity and new ideas.

The issue of advice – that it can be unhealthy; that for it to be healthy, listening, understanding, not merely projecting, and permission are important.

Without this, it is a best a waste of time – and time is a resource.

Over and above, and including the waste of time, it is a waste of ultimate potential.

The issue of when I feel good and bad (also – Copilot)

Background – healthy sleep, exercise, food, practice, minimize unhealthy habits.

Recognizing, predicting, dealing

People and resolutions, mutual– which takes intelligence and courage, projecting myself, and the way.

What is the role? Of universal education in prescriptivism and the spread of prescriptivism and received grammar, received word meaning, and received language in general. And is this spread of prescriptivism a good thing or rather what are these pros and cons?

The issue of the essence of TWB

Tea versus coffee, generally, and in the morning?

Ideas for trips and similar activities

Status – entered to planning; secondary use only

Road trip, extended, for example, “across the country“, they by bus and train, hostels, and travelers, lodging, researched, and planned, places to resupply– consumables and gear and clothes, packages sent in advance, dealing with the issue of travel and possibly grungy clothes versus nice clothes.

Vision quest

Camp with large tent, which has a front porch, a tall bed/living room, and the various amenities for comfort, creativity, exercise, and exploration.

The Cry of the Raven - by Richard Nelson

Status – for information and possible basis for a published review

Introduction

One of my greatest reads, in some ways profound, especially for modern civilization.

“The Cry of the Raven” is about Athabaskans in the Alaskan villages of Huslia and Hughes at about the 68th parallel.

These Athabaskans have partly assimilated western culture but significantly retain their own cultural practices.

Their lives are difficult, probably even in their own terms, but significantly meaningful to them, as well as beautiful. The account is often poignant.

My first impression of the book on reading the cultural practices was “mundane, not interesting“. But that was based on a superficial reading of a section on some of the Athabaskan taboos.

I later gave the book a second try, and as I became immersed in it, it became riveting, deep, sweet, profound, and instructive.

On communal intelligence

What I want to emphasize first is the difference between directed rather than casual group conversations among the Athabaskan families depicted in the book compared to group conversations in the modern world.

In the modern world, one person speaks, then another speaks about their experiences, and a third speaks about their experience and so on each presenting themselves and they’re being little recognition of what is good and true.

Among the Athabaskans, in a “directed“ group conversation, every person has a turn, in which they speak what they see without interruption, except questions and encouragement, and thus the community absorbs, each persons “truth“, and in practice, what is true gets absorbed into the community, rather by “osmosis“ and by what works in practice. This is good for both the individual and the community.

In the modern world, the functions what works conceptually, and practice are assigned to scientists, philosophers, politicians, engineers, lawyers, doctors, and other experts. Given the large-scale structure of our modern culture and societies, this is functional, and perhaps even necessary. However, a consequence is that the individual is typically not at the center of their world, but give over the definition of the world to the experts, and if educated, generally regard that received expertise as “truth“.

… But the individual is no longer at the center of their world, even though they can, for their own personal purposes, and cultural purposes – perhaps the future of the world is not in the hands of experts, but will again be in the hands and mines and hearts of those individuals whose knowledge arises from the soil of being, and, especially for universal purposes, which are the forward motion of the being of our civilization in the universe.

My thoughts

I’m not advocating to import Athabascan culture into our world; I’m advocating to think some integration of the particular practice I’ve described into our ongoing conversation.

For me, I believe I have personally, but incompletely absorbed the message of how to listen, and I would like to enhance my use of their approach and would hope and request that others, especially those close to me would do the same for me, and perhaps for all modern people, the same.

Trinity Alps Wilderness

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Terrain

The Trinity Alps is a land of striking contrasts. At its highest reaches, permanent snowfields and glaciers glisten. There are scattered stands of trees, jewel-like mountain lakes, waterfalls, vertical rock cliffs and lush meadows. At lower elevations, dense forests cover a series of seemingly unending ridges. Forming the headwaters of the Trinity, Salmon and Scott rivers, the Trinity Alps Wilderness is over 500,000 acres in size. The Trinity Alps mountains include high, rough ridges with peaks ranging from 7,000 to 9,000 feet in elevation, deep glacial canyons, and spectacular mountain meadows.

Weather

The climate of the Trinity Alps can be best described as Mediterranean, in which the winters are cool, cloudy and wet, while the summers are warm, sunny and dry. During the summer months, temperatures can reach into the 100-degree range in the lower elevations, while temperatures in the 80's are common at the higher elevation. The annual precipitation averages 50 inches, including snowfall in excess of 12 feet in some places. Summer thunderstorms are common.

Water

Water in the Trinity Alps is found in a wide range of settings. There are numerous streams, lakes, springs, seeps, and bogs as well as glaciers. There are prominent rivers and creeks that support andromous and resident fish populations. There are numerous perennial lakes in the Trinity Alps that were formed by glacial processes. Crossing the creeks and rivers during spring runoff - usually late May and early June

- can be dangerous and caution is advised. Water may be infected with Giardia and should be filtered or boiled before drinking.

Plant communities

The plant communities of the Trinity Alps Wilderness contain an exceptionally diverse array of species. The species richness can be attributed to the area's complex geologic history, pockets of non-glaciated land and the associated wide variety of soil types, the presence of both maritime and Mediterranean climates, and wide elevational ranges. The Trinity Alps has an alpine character despite its moderate elevation and climatic factors.

Wildlife

The Trinity Alps includes many typical habitats, and some that are unique to the wilderness. It is home to blacktail deer, Roosevelt elk, black bear, mountain lion, Pacific fisher, American marten, mink, weasel, raccoon, ringtail cat, fox, porcupine, coyote, and more common mammals.

Several special avian species include: bald eagle; golden eagle; peregrine falcon; northern spotted owl; northern goshawk; great grey owl; and willow flycatcher. Careful and quiet travel without pets can reveal wildlife that would not otherwise be seen.

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