The Red Buttes wilderness is a nice area straddling Oregon's border with California, near the Pacific Crest Trail. Cheri and I spent the long weekend doing a 27-mile loop through the California portion.

Our route took us steeply uphill to Echo lake, where we stayed our first night. We then went south along a three-mile segment of the PCT and west along the Boundary trail (which forms the boundary of the wilderness area). After our final night in beautiful Cedar Basin, we hiked out along the Butte Fork of the Applegate river to close the loop.