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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jan 29, 2016 - 10:06pm PT
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This is how to walk to the islands.
Get a quality model, with a good ventilation system.
Avoid windy days.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2016 - 08:25pm PT
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Cool, Franky, thanks! I must suck at Googling because I've looked around and never saw that. Looks like some logical parameters without them spending too much time getting picky.
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sowr
Trad climber
CA
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Great thread - Franky's original Milestone Basin point is more or less on the Sierra High Route ski tour, in fact that's about where your third camp would be coming from the Owen's Valley - have to remember that when I'm there next!
I've climbed Whaleback from the west and can testify that it's a long hike.
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jpdreamer
Trad climber
St. Louis
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Some google maps distance measuring suggests Santa Barbara Island beats the Farallones handily - the closest road to Santa Barbara Island is an access road to a cove near the western tip of Catalina Island - from there it's ~26.25mi to the northwest tip, labeled Webster Point, with the roads on the naval base at San Nicolas Island ever further away, at over 28mi. By contrast, even the southern tip of South Farallon is only 20.8mi from the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station parking lot near Chimney Rock trailhead parking.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Remote is more than just linear horizontal distance, that's why Devil's Crag #1 is the most remote spot.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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If accessibility is the measure, Devil's Crag #1 is a contender. I'd argue that the pit at the confluence of Return Creek and Regulation Creek is also a contender. All here who have been there, please chime in, by all means!
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franky
Trad climber
Black Hills, SD
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sowr, Cloud Canyon in general is really cool. I was back there via the Twin Lakes Trailhead and then through Sugarloaf Valley. I think in terms of below treeline areas in Sequoia/Kings, Sugarloaf Valley and its extensions are probably my favorites. Cool photo of the Whaleback.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Thankful these fine places remain so remote still!
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franky
Trad climber
Black Hills, SD
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TMJesse, I definitely have a SEKI bias. I hope to get into that Yosemite backcountry sometime soon.
One area nobody has been talking about is down where the Kern River intersects the Sequoia NP Southern Boundary, by the Kern River Ranger Station. By my analysis that zone is really far from a road. The ranger station does take away from the remoteness I suppose, and all the stock use in Golden Trout. Still worth visiting if you are avoiding civilization.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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it is illegal to use "Remote" and "California" in the same sentence,
that law started back in 1949,
besides, remote is a frame of mind, you can feel remote in a room full of people, or feel connected while solo hiking in the Saline Valley,
but i would say the black rock desert, or that bird refuge that got broken into by those redneck hippies,
your still gonna see con trails in the back country,
most remote place is actually at the bottom of a vertical mine shaft which is located 10 miles west of New Idria, last known home of Juan Murietta,
only thing that makes it down there is murder victims and positively charged muons,
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Have all of the Devils Crags been traversed in a push? Looks uber chossy, but beautiful.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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I've skied the Sierra High Route (Onion Valley to Wolverton) twice and that photo of Milestone Col brings back a feeling of remoteness.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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A Devil's Crags traverse? Holy smoke! My money would be on no, nobody has done that.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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I've thought about trying a Devil's Crags traverse. According to Secor, it's 4th or low 5th class with one rappel, which probably means low 5th without rappels, but it's also a scary pile of awful rock. I doubt anyone has tried it.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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The most remote I have ever felt but the actually being the closest to civilization was kayaking Sespe Creek. As the crow fly's you are probably never more than 5 miles away from a road but because the gorge is so deep and difficult you feel like you are on the moon.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Black Kaweah summit is about as remote as I've been. Doing a traverse of the Kaweahs, or skiing around east of there would be amazing. Retirement plans, or at least post kids grown plans, or maybe late teens family vacation?
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dit
Mountain climber
eastside
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interesting topic. Sounds like many have used more scientific methods then I did in 2011. Took the USGS DNR map, then used dividers to "pinpoint" the location distance to nearest road. I came up with this point a bit NE of Tunemah Pk. Felt remote enough, 5000' ski descent too!
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Radical!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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When I lived at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, the park was notorious for it's isolation from civilization and associated services-- it was just about a 180 mile round trip to the nearest grocery store in Richfield. The nearest actual city with stuff like shopping, good doctors and a real hospital with a Level One trauma center was a 500 mile round trip to Salt Lake City (Provo, slightly closer, does not make the cut). It was wonderful, knowing you were living in such a remote outpost. The clarity of the air and the incredible night sky. The natural quiet. Such a place to be alive...
Roads all around, but civilization and other people, not so much. When we bought a home in Torrey, the population was about ~120 people.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Juaquin Murrieta
The gut of the GOD must be on this list. Is there a recorded descent?
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