2022 NorCal Wheeling, Camping, and Fuckery Thread

Last months fortune. lol

 

Slick Rock tomorrow

 

Have fun! I’ll be working on the Tacoma Saturday and working Sunday. The passenger side where the two bolts for the ball joint connects is loose but the bolts are tight. Not sure whats going on there but I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

 

You’ll get another trip out of it

Good luck with the repair.

 

Yeah, I called the ranger station earlier this year and asked about the Herring Creek and Reservoir campgrounds. A tree fell on the bathroom a couple of years ago and they are still repairing\rebuilding it. There is no fee for either so I don't think there is much motivation for them to get either of these campgrounds open any time soon.

 

Shitting in the woods is part of the fun.

 

You will have a good time, it’s fun. Good warm up for your rubicon trip this year.

 

i wonder if their are widowmakers or other issues with the trees that also need to be taken care of?

 

Indeed it is, especially with a view!

 

From what they have been saying in their posts, they have already removed over 160 dangerous trees from the area around the campsite.

So... they should basically say what's REALLY going on: "We've done a piss poor job of managing the area around this site for a number of years, and allowed the campsite to go to complete disrepair. But now we're going to "fix it" by shutting it down for half the summer."

According to FS estimates, one of the campsites MIGHT open this month, the other wont open until at least mid August.

 

I thought that was for Hull Creek campground, but I'm sure it is the same story all over. All the more reason to dispersed camp, just hope that people are good stewards of LNT principles or the dispersed sites will get ruined or shut down too.

 

The USFS is understaffed for maintenance positions. In 2018, there was about 50% of the number of Forestry Technicians than there were in 1992 (https://www.nafsr.org/advocacy/2019/072619 Workforce Capacity Study.pdf). I doubt those numbers have gone up all that much, particularly when you consider how non-competitive the salaries for those technician positions are (https://www.federalpay.org/employees/occupations/forestry-technician).

 

I always say that!

There’s something about digging a whole shitting in and burying your poop!

Although, I’ve recently adopted packing out almost all my waste.

 

You know, you're right. The last report I saw was for Hull Creek. But the story has been basically the same for Herring Creek



The entire problem on Hull creek is even more bullshit. The snow has been melted there, and it has been accessible for probably a month longer than Herring Creek.

 

That’s for sure. We work with them on overlapping projects and they’re always scrambling. Stanislaus NF has like one year around maintenance crew.

Plenty of firefighters though. Just like the graphic shows.

 

Yikes.

 

Has anyone seen the lower section of 3N10 lately? It appears that's where all the tree removal activity has been focused. I barely recognised the place.

 

@roguegs ???

 

don’t think I can swing it this weekend. What time are you headed up there?

 

Going to be at Utica side trailhead... to start Slick Rock at 9:00 AM tomorrow.

Looks like we're doing Slick Rock and Deere Valley tomorrow. And camp at Tamarack Lake.

We're going to explore around Tamarack, Blue Lakes etc on Sunday and then camp at Lost Lakes Sunday night (should be meeting @silvertep, I think he may already headed up there).

@silvertep is going to do Forestdale Divide OHV and Strawberry Pass OHV with us on Monday. Then out to 50 and then home.

@Impoy47 MIGHT be joining up with us at Tamarack or Lost Lakes.