Aug. 20, 1964
To botanize the extreme western end of the Siskiyous, or to explore them for future botanical incursions at appropriate seasons, the best approach is from the ocean side, up the various rivers that penetrate deeply into the famously rugged Curry County of Oregon and California’s Del Norte County – the Rogue, Pistol River; the Chetco, Winchuck and Smith Rivers. From my Packer’s Gulch headquarters in the Illinois Valley, I have made circuitous…




