Had a blast! Not sure when I will get the photos up on my site as I have softball tonight, a wedding tomorrow night and my parents in town for the wedding and staying with us till' Sat. Then up to Ramona to my Aunts on Sat for the fireworks so I guess Sunday.... Yikes...
Here is a quick write-up on the trip. We ended up staying in Holcomb Flats campground for two nights. There were just three groups camping that night. Unfortunately one was an extremely inconsiderate family who game in blazing around 10:45 with kids crying & screaming bear proof trash cans slamming. Thank goodness they left the next day and the following night it was two new campers with us so just 3 of the 19 spaces were taken.
We drove so much of the area in the Suby all three days and I even got the traction control to light up a few times when I spun a wheel climbing some rocky hills. And today after checking out Hana Flats campground I took a turn too fast in the dirt and just as the rear end was losing grip the traction control kicked in and brought me back straight. I tried to do it again on the next turn but I guess I wasn't going fast enough.
Oh and also we hiked all the way to the top of 3N07A that has two old mines and it would be a killer trail in the cruisers. It is very lightly traveled after the mines and pretty overgrown. There are two fallen trees currently blocking the trail that need to be cut up and moved and the views are amazing. Anyway I took detailed photos of the whole trail and maybe one day I will get to run it. The trip really got me familiar with the area and I can't wait to go back and do some runs in the Cruiser!
Today we left cut across 3N12, which is a beautiful trail and finally saw a Yellow Post Camp Site. We wanted to compare Holcomb Campground to Hanna Flats. Totally different sites and I really prefer Holcomb, I have NEVER been in such a clean & beautiful camp. From their we detoured off of 330 to 18 to see Lake Arrowhead. I had been their when I was little but I don't remember anything about it. So we did the entire loop around and drooling over Mansion after Mansion! After that we went to Silverwood Lake well we were planning on having lunch their but instead we exited too early and ended up at a run down nasty camp site on one side, a State correctional facility in the middle and an ATV park on the right. We were starving at this point so we ate in the parking lot of the ATV area. Then a few miles down the road we came up on a massive lake.
So we stopped at the overlook and took a couple of pictures before heading into the 95 deg. heat of Ontario where we finally filled up again. That was one benefit about taking the Suby we averaged 26 MPG's on a 410 mile road trip.
WOW that ended up being a little long winded. Oh well.... Don't you feel like you were with us?
and I are talking about doing a small little, tent camping trip this Mon-Wed since we are both off of work. We just started looking for places tonight and it seems that there are quite a few with first come first serve until July. So we are thinking somewhere relatively close; Los Padres NP, San Bernadino NP or Angels NF.
