209 TACOS - B/S and shenanigans

Fucking A. I'm sick of tripping over it.

 

MUCH LIKE!

Name time and place.

 

Oh man I ran a 10k this morning then spent 4 hours running a chainsaw. I’m not going to be able to get out of bed tomorrow. My legs and arms are toast!

Got one of my trees cut up though!

Before

After

 

Will have to hire someone for the other. Too sketchy for me.

 

Plunge cut! Need a bigger saw though, this 20” bar isn’t cutting it.

 

That was tough

 

I’d be lucky if i could get past the bark.

 

People will put RTTs on anything these days.

 

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Need some local trail advice.

I've always wanted to try to see if I can get from Arnold (HWY 4) to Sonora (HWY 108). It looks like theres a forest route 5N02 out of Dorrington that drops you out near Strawberry.
Anyone have experience with that route recently? Thinking of trying it on memorial day weekend.

 

I did that (Hell's Half Acre Road?) in the other direction with @El Taco Diablo and some others a few years ago, going from Sourgrass to Niagara Rim. As I remember it, most of it was a 40-ish foot wide logging road, and it wasn't particularly scenic, with lots of past fire damage. Almost everything between Sourgrass and Beardsley Reservoir was locked by Sierra Pacific.

 

I remember that trip. That was the Birthday trip for me and @Motofox

The locked gates were the ones we encountered the day prior to doing Sourgrass. That was the SPI land that is on the the other side of 4. We came down Corral Hollow, then Bailey Ridge and hit the locked gates that evening trying to make it to camp on the South Fork Mokelumne.

The next day we did Sourgrass and then went out 5N02. It was basically a fire road till we got next to the canyon below Beardsley Dam. Then it's that single lane asphalt.

5N02 is not Hells Half Acre road. 5N02 comes out over Beardsley dam (below the reservoir). Hells Half acre crosses the Middle Fork Stanislaus (inlet to Beardsley) ABOVE Beardsley reservior. Hells Hallf acre road is 5N95. I've never been that way, but have been curious about that route.

 

FYI -

Some of these roads may be open now. But they still haven't updated the Forest Order / Road Closures, and it runs through 5/31.

5N02 is on that order, most of it is closed on the 4 side of Beardsley. You can't get to 5N95 due to the other closed roads locking it in.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd1171858.pdf

 

Here's where Hell's Half Acre is.

 

Thank you @El Taco Diablo.

This is seemingly the story of my life. Either I want to get started too early .... snow issues and roads are still closed, or I get started too late and fires and smoke are abundant.

Some day!

 

Oh, that's the life in the Great State of CA