I signed up for their dinner, but depending on the lines or whatever I may just cook my own.

If it's the same spot they had last time, there is no crapper. Bring your TP and take a walk

 

Rob are you gonna make it out with us to dinner tonight?

 

We were planning on hooking up at Lake Ave. exit off the 210 in Pasadena. I think it was going to be me, SoCal80, and voodoo at 10:30 at the Mobil station. SoCal80 has to leave later now and I am not sure about voodoo. I still plan on shooting through there about that time. Let me know if you want to meet up.

Edit: Me and voodoo are in:

 

Expat,
Follow up w/ chris (slosurfer). We were going to carivan but I had some plans changed on me so can't meet up. But will hopefully be able to meet w/ everyone once up in camp.

Chris,
You beat me to the post. If for some reason I can meet w/ you guys I will PM or call you.

 

Sounds like your going to be the early arrival. I'm trying to leave SD around noon so I'll look out for your TOY when I arrive.

Are you bringing that trailer? I converted a 1925 Model T bed into a trailer and would like to check yours for future mods.

 

10:30 is when I am meeting voodoo and toyoponov at the 210/605. we will try to save some room for yotatechers.

No trailer, I am coming solo (no wife and kid) so I don't need it, sorry.

 

We are feeding those who have signed up on our site....
We have CLOSED our sign up page for the run. We ended up with 105 trucks signed up. I don't see all of them going, but if they do, it will be very interesting to say the least.
Camping will also be an issue. We had about 40 trucks last time and it was tight. As people come in on Friday/Saturday morning, we will be asking you to camp close, but not too close. We have had the Rangers email us so they know we are coming.
PLEASE HAVE YOUR ADVENTURE PASSES WHEN YOU COME INTO CAMP! I know you all are meeting at the center, and I think it opens at 8. BUY THEM!!!!
We really need your guys' help in keeping it good. Drive, and camp smart. Dinner starts at 4pm, so see you all there!!!

Darrin

 

on everyone that missed the meet and greet tonight. It seemed like everyone had a great time. We should do another one in a couple months.

Brad - I'm happy for you (and your hand[s]) that you called Eric before taking that nut off

 

It looks like we're going to be expecting a LARGE gathering. Since we'll be doing our own thing, I am suggesting that we camp together at a remote campsite separate from the general area. This will help minimize the chaos in locating eachother when we depart for our Saturday run. We can all still crash the dinner as Jason will be grillin some mean grub

Since this is a last minute change, I am suggesting we quickly decide on what we want to do. There are many free sites that are in the remote areas of BB. The only difficulty would be locating eachother in the remote areas. It is possible but it can become difficult (maybe).

The other option is to secure a campsite but I can't find any sites available.

Since the rangers know we're coming they'll be out on full force enforcing the rules so we'll want to make sure we're legit on the camping arrangements.

Thanks!

 

The TTORA guys are using colored ribbons on their antennas to help keep things organized and disinguish trucks by easy/med/hard runs.

Maybe we could do the same, or have one ribbon color to identify the YT group...

 

Haha I bet Eric wants a rainbow ribbon!!!

 

charles, we'll be gathering at the discovery center at 8am which is earlier than ttora's gathering which is at 9am at the campsite. having a separate gathering location and time will greatly help to separate the two groups. remember this is only for saturday as on sunday we'll regroup and merge w/ everyone else.

 

Have any of you guys run John Bull in recent times? From what I have read, it is apparently easier than in the past due to some work that has been performed on it.

I wonder how it now compares to Holcomb in degree of difficulty.

Anyone with any recent experience of the trails, could you rank in order of most to least difficult, Holcomb, John Bull and Dishpan for me?

I want to do Gold with you guys but I see you are not planning on doing Holcomb (which I was hoping to do) and I am not sure what the schedule (time) TTORA is doing Holcomb.

I'd also be willing to do John Bull if the first part of the rock garden has been modified so I can get in. Last time we were up there, Lance, Bruce and Charles did a great job climbing over the rock garden but I couldn't see how I'd ever get my tupperware from and rear ends over the rocks. My steel bullbar from Shrockworks arrives in about a week. Just my luck!

Thanks for any imput.

Mark

 

I think that's a great idea as we are all arriving at different times and the chances of securing a spot together amongst the chaos will be tough. Arrastre Flat is just East of Holcomb Valley and 3N32. This may be enough room for all the Yota Tech boys. Burnt Flat, which is at the north terminus of 3N02, also may work due to it's location. Many options out there. CHeck your topos and let's come up with a good spot we can all get to.

Andy

 

I haven't been camping up there so I don't know which place is best. I think we will be one of the first ones up there, so we can go to which ever place and save some room. I am down for whatever.

Chris

 

What color are the adventure passes? I have one, but there is no date on it and I'm not sure if it is too old.

If you want to get another camping spot, it should probably be near the TTORA one since they put up good signs to get to the right area. Maybe we could be a little further down the road?

 

Guys I looked into Serrano which I heard was close to the TTORA camp but it is all filled up already w/ people who have reservations. I am not sure what other camp site there is that is close to TTORA camp. If anyone who is familiar w/ the area wants to research some more you can use the following link: click here

Hope that helps.

 

Does anyone know the name of the campsite where TTORA is holding the event? I can look into camp sites that would be close by and see if we can get a few spots.

 

OK, my brother is now available to leave from San Diego at noon. He needs a ride up to Big Bear and then back down to San Diego. If you are able to help, please PM me. Thanks

 

group sites or family sites require 72 hour reservation per Discovery Center (I just called). This means we can not occupy any of these sites. There are free sites (yellow) that we can find but they're limited in how many we can fit.

I was told we can camp in the wilderness so long as it's not near a meadow or main road. This means we have to be inland enough to rough it.

I looked up Andy's recommendation on Arrastre Flats and it looks like a spot where we can crash: GPS coords 34.303ºN 116.864ºW

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=...8&lon=-116.864

What do you all think?