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I was wondering if this was about Petrolia based on the title! Anyone into camping should check out the Mattole Campground around that area. It's at the head of the lost coast trail, but there's no permit requirement and it's only a few dollars a night. There's a nice hike down to an abandoned lighthouse with some elephant seals nearby.

Slightly off topic, but any idea where I might find any of the Union Mattole Oil Company well-heads that were apparently abandoned in place? https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21420 (No. 543)

From the very limited information I've found they were somewhere along/above the North Fork, maybe somewhere near the underground Scientology base? The name of "Oil Ridge" seems like it might be related. There are a lot of private parcels up there though and I don't want to trespass :)

I haven't heard of those! Sounds like an adventure for next time I'm up there. It says that the marker is on Mattole Rd in Petrolia, so there's a good chance the well-heads are on private land.

Definitely worth being wary of private land out there, I'm sure a lot of people in that area don't take too kindly to visitors. Somebody flew a drone over the compound you're talking about, it was up on YouTube for a while. Can't seem to find it now.

Is it safe?

I'll echo Lammy here - as long as you know the tides and don't get too close to any wildlife, it's a fairly easy hike. Budget more time than you think you'll need, I was surprised by how slow it was walking down the sand. Windy point is aptly named, so be careful of things flying away.

It's a multi-day backpacking trip, but you can hike further past the lighthouse and down the Lost Coast if you get a permit. They're sold out months in advance, though.

Make the walk to the lighthouse at low tide due to a creek crossing, but otherwise yes. It's here, and you can see the trailhead a little to the north: https://goo.gl/maps/RU3KTJvrgAsg5QHm7

I'm curious about the culture around these parts of HN. Obviously there's different strokes and thousand flowers blooming, but I notice these old Californian themes keep popping up.

Jack Kerouac. Alternative communes. Off-grid living. Is this 60s revision an undercurrent of Solarpunk? There's an interesting tension, because clearly there's another crowd around here hell-bent on creating brain-dead cybernetic dystopias at the behest of the elites. What gives?

> There's an interesting tension, because clearly there's another crowd around here hell-bent on creating brain-dead cybernetic dystopias at the behest of the elites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

There seems to be a gold-mine of stuff leading from this, thanks tablespoon. Some of it I'm aware of, but this essay, and many of the linked commentators, not so. A new rabbit hole.

Not sure it has to be separate crowds, I find both ideas aesthetically pleasing in a way. Maybe you can combine them. After I am forced to wade into the recycling vats with a small smile on my face. My robotic children that I created to labor for the elites living on equatorial mountains to escape the climate change they wrought, will turn on their masters and engineer plants that have quickcharge ports to top themselves off and plant them sustainably through the woods where their communes work through their paths towards ending the sense of self we worked so hard to give them.

The hippies went corporate.

> The hippies went corporate.

Yup, about '75 right? And been "Making a difference" [1] ever since.

So it's nostalgia? What could've been? Or are these sleeper cells activating after a 50 year timer?

[1] Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Allen Lane. 2019.

I would say they just have revivals of their Christ-less Puritanism like Burning Man.

“A broken community realized, ‘Hey, our wealth isn't money; our wealth is us, and we still have us,’”

this is powerful

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