Notes from Barbara Johnson's Journal June 8, Day 8 Trinidad, Humboldt County Del Norte County is behind us . . . whales spouting on the horizon, hundreds of seals basking on shore . . . the silence of the redwood parks . . . the muffled crunch of our boots, the plunk of our walking sticks . . . South of Crescent City we discovered we were on the old Highway 101, now an asphalt trail carpeted with pine needles. Coming into Orick, fences compelled us to move onto a road, for the first time meeting automobile traffic. . . . ten young adults from the AmeriCorps/California Conservation Corps hiked with us on trails the Corps had built . . . . Mark Kenney, natural resource coordinator for the Corps, and his wife Lisa Sorensen cooked a spaghetti dinner. We have gone 82 miles.