We made it back to Fraser flat Campground; it had been three years! We snagged site 7 which is a very easy site to back into and a site away from the main loop.
First day, Friday, we went for a 5 mile hike along the Stanislaus River on the side we had never hiked before. The Philadelphia Ditch runs above most of this trail, but a portion of the trail goes up to the ditch and the road.
The Philadelphia ditch or canal is owned by PG&E. The water is used to produce electric power to a number of towns in the foothills of the Sierras.
The ditch runs for miles. We only hiked a short section of it and saw the starting point just off of this road.
Day 2, Saturday, we hiked a 10 mile loop from campground up to Strawberry and back.
It was about 4.8 miles to Strawberry, where we rested and studied the map for the direction back to campground.
We took the Fraser Flat Trail back to camp after hiking a bit on Old Strawbery Rd that took us by extremely large second homes.
This monument tells of story of how Strawberry came to be named after the wild strawberries that grew here.
An easy gentle grade filled with peace.
