Well, Mendocino County, geez, we don’t know what to say. LoCO was sure you’d pull out a victory and lay claim forevermore to the title of Humboldt’s fav neighbor but it looks like secluded Trinity County is somehow more magical. Shocker.

Since, we haven’t spent that much time in Trinity, we’ll highlight prolific LoCO commenter “Lost Croat Outburst“‘s round up of why it’s the place to be:

“Trinity has the undamned (intentional spelling) South Fork Trinity Wild and Scenic River and a great swimming hole at Hell Gate (white people name ) near Forest Glen if you can survive the tweaker/boozer demo derby on Route 36. Druids, slavic tribesmen, and other tree huggers find much to embrace with magnificent old growth Oregon White Oak and California Black Oak stands. The aforementioned SFTR partially drains the lesser-known, magnificent Yolla Bolly - Middle Eel Wilderness Area. Ruth Lake is fun. Lots of public hunting and fishing and camping and hiking. Not far from Salyer, just barely across the county line is the national champion tanoak.

Up near Hayfork you can eat your sack lunch at the Natural Bridge and Indian Massacre Picnic Area. Bring a T-shirt back for me.”

Well, then. Plan your Trinity adventure soon, HumCo!

PREVIOUSLY: All Past Humboldt Approved Winners

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Original Post: Thanks to all the serious local beer lovers who took the time to upvote a brewery in last week‘s Humboldt Approved poll. In the end, we all won … ‘cuz beer. But every time we stumble across a crowd pleasing HumApp category, we like to follow it up with a bewildering head scratcher we’re sure you’ll hate. So …

Here’s a scenario: A giant hash lab hidden somewhere out in the Headwaters forest blows up and causes Humboldt to break off from the rest of California, like, perfectly on the county lines. (What are the odds?!) As our beloved home slowly begins to sink into the Pacific, you have a decision to make: which of our neighboring counties will you swim to for refuge? Specifically, what is Humboldt’s least worst neighboring county?

You have four (4) options this week, kids: Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou or Trinity. As your pondering your very, very important vote, we’ll remind you that in, oh, a few weeks or so we’ll have even closer ties to a few of these places once the State of Jefferson becomes o-fish. Be careful who you piss off.

Last week’s voting went so smoothly, your Lost Coast Outpost is going to go ahead and finish the nominating process for you. And, as always, here’s your weekly rules reminder:

To vote, look through the comments of this Humboldt Approved poll. If someone has already nominated the answer you would give for that week’s category, click the upvote arrow. If you don’t see your desired Humboldt Approved answer nominate it in a comment for others to upvote. (Please be careful to not duplicate answers; redundant answers will be deleted and potential associated upvotes will be lost.) Feel free to make your case by replying to/cheering on the answer you love most, but again the number by the arrows on the initial nomination is what counts.

You can vote for as many nominees as you deem worthy but, of course, the more you do that the more watered down your initial vote becomes. That’s math.

We reserve the right to delete superfluous comments that make the voting/comment section hard to sift through. Please try not to get offended when your comment battle reply is deleted. We’re trying to do something here. While most weeks we look for two winners — one winner from the metropolises of Eureka and Arcata, and one from Humboldt’s smaller communities — this time we’re gonna limit it to one. Voting closes next Friday at noon and soon after a winner will be declared.

Alright, now vote in our dumb poll! Note: we’re working on making it so the county with the least votes has to join Nevada! This is real, people!