First off pay no attention to the date listed, its up in the air. I just put a date a long time out so members do not think it has past by already. I would like to do this sooner then later, I was thinking late summer of 2009.

hear is a map of the trail it is about 6 miles.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...cl=1&encType=1

here are some pics and a review of the trail its self.
http://www.gentryoffroad.com/php/tra...squawridgeohv/

I have not been out there before and i do not know if a stock yota can do it but from what i have read and seen it dose seem passable, let me know what you all think.

 

Depending on the date I'm down for it. Maybe if its a campover we could do Red Lake Trail into Blue lakes plus some of Deer Valley?

 

I am down for camping, i always use my camp when im out in the mountain. ill have to look into the other two trails as i do not know much about them and im trying to gain experience.

It looks to me those trails are listed as difficult and that is to much for me at the moment but you be able to get some other YTer's to join you. Im still working on getting armor as i have none at this time.

the time frame i was thinking about was around early September

 

how did i not know about that trail while living in stockton... that looks like a fun trail.

let me know if you guys need any suggestions on other norcal trails... i've ran several of them

 

cool ill keep you in mind tofer when looking for some info. on trail in the area

 

I've also just about ran them all in that area. Deer Valley requires a moderately built rig. Deervalley, slickrock,and strawberry are all good trails in that area. The Norcal TTORA page has some good Norcal trail info.

 

Strawberry is a good one but rigs w/o lockers and/or high clearance will need to be dragged through at least one spot. I dragged three Toys thru there near the end of last season w/o damaging them
Last year our club adopted Long Canyon Trail which is right next to Strawberry. I guarantee y'all would like that one. here are some photos of that trip.

 

that looks way fun. might even have to bust out the 'ole strap. i'm totally down for that one. keep us posted on a set date for this run. looks like i'll be needing those sliders and tires sooner than later.

 

sept.? thats a ways out there lol. i may have to do some wheeling before that lol. hoping to get in a trip a month if possible. i know not everyone can make it like that but hopefully i will have enough to have a good time.

 

the date can change most definitely my only issue is maybe money do to having to pay my cousin's rent for the pass three months. give me some dates you all would like but some time in July im doing a camping trip up at hellhole which you already know about John

 

i dont know if you will really need that stuff pottery. from what i looked up you should be good and not need to worry about any damage but i do know you have been wanting different tires.

your pic.'s make that area look nice Ill have to keep that one in mind for the future.

 

Well pottery u may not need everything but if ur gonna commit that rig to an off roader might as well get started. I think I have almost all the rocovery gear a person would need so no hurry on that stuff

 

you do have a lot of recovery and armor, john, but one thing i did notice is that none of us had any recovery points on the rear of our rigs except troy. never know when you'll need that one. my truck is pretty much a wheeling/camping/hauling rig now, but i don't want to go and beat her to hell, so all those things are definitely gonna happen sometime or another, especially since they've just upped my hours at work to 75% (yay, more toys!).

if we can, i'd also like to hit up a lot of those trails listed on TTORA that are 4-6 rated sometime this summer since they're all pretty close to one another and to sac-area. waiting till september is just too long. like john said, we should plan one for each month, june, july, aug., and sept. there are a LOT of yt'ers that are in the foothills/sac area, so hopefully a lot of them will be up to goin' out and having some fun in the sierras. and if not, i'm even down for quick trips over to prairie city or something and farting around for the day.

 

what are the trails that are listed on the TTORA SITE with the rating of 4-6. give us a link and what your interested in, Ill have to see what my budget says but I am up for more wheeling. Im just trying to plan out far enough to get the word out.

 

Yeah until my cash settlement comes in i won't have much rear armor. but that should be in the next few weeks. I am really hoping to build myown but need to mock it up on paper or cad first. i was gonna buy a trail gear rear but i am just to impressed by the design.i think i am gonna start with 2x6 steel and modify from there. my goal is to have something stout and semi light w/ D's and a hitch on it.

As for trails we will also have the highlakes trail ready for use here in a few weeks as well. I am willing to travel down there to the sac area but have to do so sparingly.
my next buy will be an off-road GPS with data save points. i figure if i cpl that with images it will be a great way to "tell a story" of the trip i go on.

 

hey fairy check these out. brian has something here for sure.
http://www.norcalttora.com/trails/index.php

 

i checked it out, and some the the vistas sound nice. Let me know what you want to do.

 

hey fairy i say we stick to your original run for sept. I really do not want to try to plan a trip based on an area i know nothing about. those trips thats the ttora have listed seem like great trails and i like there rating system (by far the best i have seen yet) i think since Brian thought to look into the ttora it be only fitting that he pick the date and run for that area as well as gaining as much knowledge as possible for it. i thing a nice small weekend run in august would be nice but make sure it is near a creek as it will be hotter than hell. a nice 5 or 6 would be fun by the sound of it.

 

X2 john

 

no prob. i'll figure out which of those seems like it would be worthwhile and possibly which ones are in close proximity to one another. i won't be able to do any wheeling this month after looking at the calendar yesterday...didn't know they made "calendar novels" hehe. but anyways, i've been wanting to go on some of those trails for a while now and finally might be able to it.