So I'm a high school senior right now, I will be graduating in June, and my friends keep bringing up the idea of going on a road-trip... and I cant agree more! Out of my friends, I am the most experienced outdoorsman, and have traveled throughout California's Sierra Nevada Range more than anyone else, and they seem to be looking to me for destination ideas. The kind of trip we have in mind is centered around the outdoors and enjoying California's scenic landscapes, although personally, I would like it to secretly be centered around fly fishing.
What we want to do is take a two week ultra low-budget trip, but the problem is that we cant come to a consensus as to where we should go! Our group would be roughly 8-10 people, in two trucks, my 86' FJ60, and my friend's F-150. Ideally, we would like to use campsites as much as possible to save money, and steer away from the major tourist destinations like Yosemite (despite its jaw dropping beauty).
I will be the "lead car" on this journey, and I feel like I'm the only one of my friends that will actually think everything through enough to actually make a trip like this happen, so I'm kinda putting a little preassure on myself to figure this thing out.
So far I have been thinking about the Kirkwood area (Sorensen's Resort area), I really loved it there this summer. But we want to go to more than one place, and that's where I need help.
What I need from you guys is help on picking places to visit and routes to take there. And remember that I want to drag my friends into fly fishing, so if you have experience in good NORCAL fly fishing, please chime in!
One last thing; I am open to out of state ideas like Idaho and Oregon too, all suggestions are welcome!!!
What we want to do is take a two week ultra low-budget trip, but the problem is that we cant come to a consensus as to where we should go! Our group would be roughly 8-10 people, in two trucks, my 86' FJ60, and my friend's F-150. Ideally, we would like to use campsites as much as possible to save money, and steer away from the major tourist destinations like Yosemite (despite its jaw dropping beauty).
I will be the "lead car" on this journey, and I feel like I'm the only one of my friends that will actually think everything through enough to actually make a trip like this happen, so I'm kinda putting a little preassure on myself to figure this thing out.
So far I have been thinking about the Kirkwood area (Sorensen's Resort area), I really loved it there this summer. But we want to go to more than one place, and that's where I need help.
What I need from you guys is help on picking places to visit and routes to take there. And remember that I want to drag my friends into fly fishing, so if you have experience in good NORCAL fly fishing, please chime in!
One last thing; I am open to out of state ideas like Idaho and Oregon too, all suggestions are welcome!!!
But I do love the Lakes Basin area, ever few years we make a trip up to Sardine Lake, my Dad used to get a bunch of friends togather to do an annual fishing trip there. If your ever at Basset's look for the picture of the owner(I think thats who he was) holding a rather large brown trout on a scale; my Dad's friend Victor caught it!
