Posted on 09/21/2022 5:49:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There are two ways to get to Mossbrae Falls, one of the most beautiful (and most often Instagrammed) natural attractions in California, about 30 minutes from the base of Mount Shasta. Unfortunately, neither of the routes are legal — and the more popular one involves a potentially deadly trek along active railroad tracks.
And yet the ethereal beauty of the falls is still a powerful temptation for visitors, who come here by the thousands, often drawn by shots splashed across Instagram and other social media sites. Tall as a five-story building and longer than an Olympic swimming pool, Mossbrae is actually hundreds of waterfalls in one, all cascading over a carpet of lush moss into the Sacramento River just outside the small city of Dunsmuir.
For nearly a century, the only way to see the beauty in person has been to trespass on one of two privately owned properties. The falls are located on the east side of the river, which is owned by the Saint Germain Foundation, a secretive religious group. The opposite bank is owned by Union Pacific Railroad, which regularly runs trains along tracks that overlook the river. This is the more popular route for visitors, but it comes with serious risks: Two people have been hit by trains while hiking the route since 2011.
Over the years, concerned citizens, nonprofit groups and city officials have pushed for a safe and accessible path to the falls. So far, every plan has fallen apart in the negotiation phase, due in large part to both passive and active resistance from the property owners on either side of the river. But that hasn’t stopped John Harch, retired surgeon and president of the Mount Shasta Trail Association, from fighting for a public right to view this natural splendor.
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It’s on private property? Then what’s the problem?
Other than the trespassers.
The path to get there is on private property.
Indeed, I spotted used toilet paper, beer cans and other garbage along the way.
I’m not concerned with waterfalls. People will do what they do..... Nazi Pelosi Commie, CA.
Note that this article comes from the SFGate, a subsidiary of the very LEFT SF Chronicle (I believe).
I would be very doubtful about a public access trail to this scenic site because it is Commiefornia and the things you have to ask about is maintenance, patrolling, future eminent domain seizure, insurance, ... etc.
Think about how long and how bitterly the fight for public access to the beaches has been going on in California. CA is ground zero of seizure and control over other people’s private property and that is not likely to change anytime soon.
There are two paths to get there, both on private property. One path is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and the other by the St Germain Foundation cult.
What are the odds that this little piece is one of the first steps in the confiscation of Saint Germain Foundation’s land. For the “public good” don’t you know.
Snide little comments in the article like “Saint Germain Foundation, a secretive religious group”, in my opinion are thrown in to color the public’s opinion of the group and I doubt even California wants to spend millions in court to force the UP to move their tracks.
Therefore they must bring public opinion to bear on the little Saint Germain Foundation.
After all Freedom of Religion means Freedom from Religion (especially an unpopular religion) in Post Constitutional America.
There is a specific state law about beaches. I think all beaches in California are supposed to have public access, except for the many miles of beaches on military bases.
I definitely noticed the shade directed as a religious group. Even though I suspect this is a religion that the members are unlikely to be conservative.
It is pretty but not worth violating private property rights for. Why can’t people just leave landowners alone and go look at some other attraction?
I remember when burning man started up in Gerlach. There were a few wonders in the immediate area on private land or access to them by crossing private land. In Nevada, generally you can cross private property to access public lands if it is the only way to access them, but gates are to be respected left in the same state they were encountered and you did not loiter or camp or hunt or otherwise get off the road without permission.
The burning man hippies tore down gates, camped where they wanted, antagonized cattle and took over springs especially places like Fly Geyser in Wallapi valley and Frog Ponds along the black rock desert. As they got more money and power the dirty hippies started buying properties and ranch land and started locking up access to public lands to stop people hunting deer and antelope especially, but also from people accessing those very same hotsprings that they tore the gates down to in the first place. Frog ponds ended up having a permanent encampment of hippies and went from a beautiful oasis of perfect temperature warm pools shaded by huge cottonwood trees that used to be part of a brothel at a remote stop in the 40s of the train from Chicago to San Francisco to a brain encephalitus infested murky pond that is no longer dippable in due to decades of constant hippie squeezins.
Start up a go-fund-me to raise money & buy out the railroad.
It’s f deral law that all waterfronts up to the tidal cr st is public domain. However if by access means from the public owned property that transfers through private property might be iffy constitutionaly.
I can’t say for sure, but this must be related to the curious “Count Saint Germaine” belief. Caught it on a show very long ago, probably “In Search Of”.
Going by that, they were sure that CSG showed up at the Declaration(?) Congress and told them to “sign that document”. They made it sound very freedom-loving.
Of course, that’s 40 years, and everything has gotten more commie, so who knows.
“It’s on private property? Then what’s the problem?”
Cali hipsters want to do yoga at the falls.
Newsome should just reroute the train to nowhere through there.
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