wheeling in CA is different than what you guys are used to. there are a few OHV parks that offer trail systems. similar to katemcy and hot springs.
most of te trails we run are on public lands. they're old roads or ued to be roads or wagon trails. so they're strictly point A to point B wheeling. rubicon is one of these. basically a old road from loon lake to lake tahoe. most of the more difficult obstacles have easier bypasses. there is only one split in the trail bt the two seperate trails converge back together after less than a mile. these two sections ae known as old sluice ( in the pics and fairly tough ) and "the slabs" where you drive up aq granite face at an angle so lots of off camber stuff. feels a little un-natural to go up theside of a hill that way but i've never seen anybody roll there.
the trail itself s 16 miles long. i know that does'nt sound like a lot but realistically, you can walk it faster than you can drive, especially in larger groups. with the buggies we can run the entire trail in 4 hours or so. in a group of streetable rigs it's closer to 20 hours.
thereare different ways to approach the camping situation and it again depends on the size of the group. we usually set up base camp at buck island and then wheel down to the springs for the dinner and raffle. but that's in a small group of built rigs. we then wheel back to camp at night up big sluice. this can get interesting and i would'nt do it with 10 or more rigs. things get more difficult at night, specially this section since it's in the trees and usually still wet at this time of the year. on top of hat it's a long uphill section with plenty of boulders. actually, it's all boulders.
so for a larger group i'd recommend we stay at buck island lake the first night, then pack up and head down to the springs to set up camp at the dirty dozen camping area. possibly wheel up cadillac hill the next day and then bac down to the springs for dinner and the raffle. the following day we'd be heading out. we culd either go back to loon ( tow rigs ) or out the tahoe side.
there are a few options on how to run the trail. we'll have to see how many rigs we end up with and how built they are. either way, the wheeling is excellent and the scenery is even better.
the chopper is there eery year and flights are $60. he followes the entire trail so you can see it all from the air and put it all in perspective. i went up this year and it was well worth he price.
georg
