Hell Hole overnight camping and wheeling trip July 16th & July 17th 2011

Yeah Ive wanted to try Snake lake. There is a lot of trails up around there i was going to camp up there this weekend but we decided to camp on the Yuba where we camped last weekend.

 

Does that norcal trail book have any of the trails in that area?

 

On sunday me and overlander explored the downieville/ Gold lake area and way too much snow still. The trails are above 6500 ft and will not be thawed out till mid july if lucky. I have done most of the trails in the area and the only one difficult is snake lake. The other trails are beautiful but can be done in stock rig.

 

Man there is snow everywhere. I'm going to check my book and find out if there is some trails a little lower that we can hit.

 

If only....

 

So what are we thinking, this is only 10 days away

 

I know man I went camping last weekend and didn't have much time to look in my book. Even Signal Peak is still covered in snow If i can't find something lower we might have to run Eagle lakes and the first few miles of Fordyce trial. There is a cool camping spot at the top of Fordyce. And Signal Peak might be clear buy then but I don't know.

 

That sounds fine to me, is eagle lakes the one you guys just did with the bit call driveline?

 

Yeah it's a pretty cool trail with some pretty changeling lines if you chose to take them.

Edit: I just checked and Lake Alpine is still under snow and that's the slick rock trail head so these trails are out of the question. I'm going to look at a few more but it looks like we might be doing Eagle lakes and maybe Signal Peak on this trip.

 

I'll definitely make this one. I wish i could find some skids though.

 

Yeah I don't have any too but whatever put the stockers to the test

 

Hell yea!

 

Hey Grif u missed Long Canyon.















Hey Jerry this weekend I'm headed out to do some trail scouting. I will report back what I find.

 

Nice pics Cha! That taco needs sliders! EEK!

 

Yeah he does. Stopped him and the spotter just in time before he got on his rocker. Backed him up and chose a different line and got him up and over without incident.

 

I missed Snoopy's head? lol.

 

That trail looks good I wish we would of made it that far when we did the snow run I'm going to have to run that trail this summer.

 

Okay so Ive been reading my book and there is not many Difficult trails under 7500ft. So here are our choices we can run Eagle Lakes and try Signal Peak but Signal Peak is 7000ft so it's most likely still covered in snow. Or we can run Hell Hole and camp at the end of the trail and Sunday run the fire road back to soda springs it's at 6500ft so it should have some snow to try to get through.

What do you guys think about that?

Edit: Ive added a poll so what do you guys think?

 

Hell Hole

 

I know I'm leaning towards it too just because Ive ran Eagle Lakes three times this year already