We'll be doing a joint trip with Battle Born Cruisers to Gold Lake July 16-18. I will likely go up Thursday and try to snag a campsite at Little Gold lake for the clubs, as it's a nice spot. If that doesn't work out, we'll camp at the Gold Lake OHV spots, which are nice as well, but the main trail runs through them and have less privacy.
If you've never been up to Gold Lake or the Sierra Buttes, you need to come. This area is amazing. Honestly it rivals Yosemite for prettiest in CA. There are dozens of lakes, miles and OHV, 4x4, and hiking trails, and the Sierra Buttes are just incredible.
We'll base camp at Gold lake, and from there we can do different runs out to different areas. Snake lake/Oakland pond is a difficult technical rock crawling trail. There are miles of moderate and easy trails and dirt roads out of various lakes and mines and old ranches. The whole area is very pretty. And of course, the Sierra Buttes lookout is the most well known for a reason, it's absolutely incredible. Perched on top of the Buttes with a 400 foot cliff looking down from the balcony of the lookout. It's an easy hike up to it, you can drive 80% of the way. It gets pretty busy, but it's worth it.
Bring food, drinks for the weekend. It will be cold at night, and nice 70-80s during the day. Getting to little Gold lake and the OHV campground, the trail in is a little rough, the cruisers will have no issues, but it's NOT car friendly at all.
We'll use our radios a lot I suspect to communicate with groups out doing runs, so we'll try to get those dialed in a little better before this trip as well.
I'd like to make this event a yearly organized thing between the two clubs. Maybe even evolve it into a bigger event someday.
Please let me know if you are going, so I can plan for camp site size needed for everyone as well.
If you've never been up to Gold Lake or the Sierra Buttes, you need to come. This area is amazing. Honestly it rivals Yosemite for prettiest in CA. There are dozens of lakes, miles and OHV, 4x4, and hiking trails, and the Sierra Buttes are just incredible.
We'll base camp at Gold lake, and from there we can do different runs out to different areas. Snake lake/Oakland pond is a difficult technical rock crawling trail. There are miles of moderate and easy trails and dirt roads out of various lakes and mines and old ranches. The whole area is very pretty. And of course, the Sierra Buttes lookout is the most well known for a reason, it's absolutely incredible. Perched on top of the Buttes with a 400 foot cliff looking down from the balcony of the lookout. It's an easy hike up to it, you can drive 80% of the way. It gets pretty busy, but it's worth it.
Bring food, drinks for the weekend. It will be cold at night, and nice 70-80s during the day. Getting to little Gold lake and the OHV campground, the trail in is a little rough, the cruisers will have no issues, but it's NOT car friendly at all.
We'll use our radios a lot I suspect to communicate with groups out doing runs, so we'll try to get those dialed in a little better before this trip as well.
I'd like to make this event a yearly organized thing between the two clubs. Maybe even evolve it into a bigger event someday.
Please let me know if you are going, so I can plan for camp site size needed for everyone as well.
