Looks like another good trip.
I'm glad to hear that the Summit Lake road is still open. How far north did you guys wind up going?
It was.
We were too, we had originally tried to go up the "East" side of the playa, next to mountains, unfortunately, the wilderness and ranch blocked the access, so we had to back track 25 miles and that is why we ended up camping at Double Hot Springs.
We basically crossed almost due east from Summit Lake, we followed a road over the mountain range and then turned north from there. We worked our way up to Knott Creek Reservoir. Too many bugs, so we moved on and ended up at Onion, still too muddy, the snow looked like it had just melted within the last couple of days, so there was mud and snow everywhere.
We then worked our way up to the Blue Lake trailhead and prepared to hike up to the lake. We had to fight through some snow/mud to get there. We started up the trail and only got about 50 foot and the snow was too deep. So we started down the Onion Rd. to Hwy. 140 and ran into the snow drift (the one in the pictures that looks like I was stuck, because I was). Winched our way out of that and headed over the summit. Ran into some even larger drifts, so we turned around and back down the other side we went.
We came out on the highway, and headed east to Denio, turned south and headed south on 140. We turned northeast up toward the King River Valley area. We found a great camp spot and called it a night.
We got up Sunday morning and headed home to get everything all cleaned up. I had a good 1" of mud under the entire cruiser, not to mention what ended up on the roof, hood and windows.
Had a great time.
Jack
Err. I was just trying to get out of the stuff I have to do this weekend, I haven't figured it out yet.
