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stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:
Coming Sunday, 10 August 2025, is Open Gate Day at Barcroft Station, part of the White Mountain Research Center in California. This is the first open gate day at Barcroft since the pandemic arrived in 2020.
This is your one chance this year to shorten the hike to the 3rd highest mountain in California, the 14,252' (4,344 m) White Mountain Peak. (For the Australians that's roughly two Mount Kosciuszkos.) No permits required, and it's the easiest fourteener in California to summit.
The White Mountains are an amazing part of California, they contain the oldest verified living tree in the world, at 4,856 years, and a landscape that is incredibly harsh but beautiful.