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Catalina Island - Trans Catalina Trail Hike 12-22-2013 to 12-26-2013

This video describes the entire Trans Catalina Trail (TCT). We took the Catalina Express ferry from Long Beach, Ca. to the town of Avalon. Our hike started in Avalon and we camped at Black Jack campground the first night, Two Harbors campground the second night and Parson's Landing the third and fourth nights. The hike is over fifty miles the way we did it. There are other hiking options available, although you wouldn't be doing the complete TCT It is approximately 15-16 miles from Avalon to Blackjack, 12 miles from Black Jack to Two Harbors, and 7 miles from Two Harbors to Parson's. It's another 4 plus miles from Parson's to Starlight Beach and the official end of the TCT, but, you have to hike back to Parson's, then to Two Harbors to get back to civilization. After the first two days of hiking we decided to only go to Parson's for our third night, and take an additional day to go to Starlight and back, which is about 9 miles round trip. We walked the flat six mile road back from Parson's Landing to Two Harbors (versus the hilly official trail) to catch a bus back to Avalon where we started. Somewhere I read there is 9600 feet of elevation gain/loss but I couldn't say for sure. The trail does climb a lot, and there are really no switchbacks, so it can get fairly steep at times. You could do an easier route by taking a shortcut out of Avalon, like Hermit Gulch, shaving about 5 miles off the trip to Black Jack. You could also camp at Little Harbor the second night, which is very nice, instead of going all the way to Two Harbors from Black Jack. You could then go to Two Harbors the next day. From Two Harbors there are two routes to Parson's Landing. The official trail climbs quite a bit and goes inland, and the alternate route is a flat road that goes along the coastline. The flat option is obviously much easier. There is a good hiking map available from the Catalina Island Conservancy, 125 Clarissa Ave. 90704 in Avalon. Their phone number is (310) 510-2595 and website You can get your free hiking permit here - http://www.catalinaconservancy.org/ , You can reserve campsites and also buy firewood online here - http://www.visitcatalinaisland.com/av.... You can pick up a locker key, for firewood at Black Jack, at the Hotel Atwater in Avalon before you leave town, and keys for Parson's Landing lockers, for water and firewood, at the visitor center in Two Harbors. Both Avalon and Two Harbors are small and very easy to walk anywhere in town. Avalon has a grocery store (Von's) and full hardware store (Chet's) for supplies of food and fuel. Two Harbors has a general store with food and alcoholic beverages, a restaurant and bar, and visitor center which are all near each other and not far from the pier. There are also public restrooms and showers.Here is a link to some of my photos from our trip. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/10... There is a herd of about 150 - 200 bison on the island, ancestors of about a dozen that were left there in the 1920's, after being brought over for the filming of a movie. Apparently, the movie people couldn't afford to round them up and ship them back, so they were just left there. They roam pretty much everywhere on the island. We saw many on the way to Black Jack, then about 50 ran along the edge of the Black Jack campground at dusk. We did get charged briefly by one that we inadvertently cornered along a stream bed. We walked up on him while hiking the trail and surprised each other. He was about six feet away and didn't have anywhere to go but towards us because he was backed up against thick brush. He started scraping one of his front feet and as we started to move away he charged out quickly. They are big animals and should be given due respect. We had another one that hung around Parson's landing when we were camped there. He didn't cause any trouble, and we saw him several times, but he did walk right by our tent, about ten feet away, one morning just before sunrise. We saw a Catalina Island fox on the last leg of the trail near Starlight Beach. There is not much shade in most areas, and it was quite warm when we were there, (mid seventies) especially for the end of December. It did cool off rapidly after sundown but never really got cold at night, maybe 50 degrees or a little lower.