NorCal Where Are You Going!!??

[Mech Engr]

This sucks!! We had a good snow in early to mid December here in Northern California but now nothing. Thankfully I was able to get up to Bowman and Yuba Pass a couple weekends in a row. I left for Arizona for 10 days during the holidays to ride the desert on my CRF 450R and I put in a request for non-stop snow here while I was gone. That didn't work out that well! I heard this morning on a Sacramento newscast that they predict very little if any rain/snow for the region over the next 3 months.

So all that being said....where can we go? I've thought about Southern Oregon (Crater Lake area) but that's pretty far. Is there any place closer, maybe in Nevada or farther North in Cali?

Your help is appreciated. I'm getting old and only have a limited number of years left to ride.

John

 

[wellfed777]

i feel ya sir Oregon is a bust!
at least southern, rain snow mix at diamond/crater this week central oregon(bend) is better but still thin with no major storms in sight
gotta go north ! north Idaho, Montana, Canada or East cost
if you find any let me know worst start ever
please let it snow

 

[mountainhorse]

ROAD TRIP!!!



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[ROCKNESTER]

That's about all there is to do at this piont... there's nothing between me, (Chico,) and Oregon... pretty sad.

ROAD TRIP!!!



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[Mech Engr]

snow

My son and I hit Yuba Pass yesterday. Actually we drove by Little Truckee Summit first and there wasn't enough snow at the staging area so we continued on through Sierraville and up 49 to Yuba Pass. There was 5" of new snow from Saturday leaving the staging area and up to 10" new snow in some areas higher up. There was enough to ride anyway. I fear there will be some bear spots this coming weekend though. There were a few people up there that got there after we did. We pretty much made fresh tracks all day. I think your going to have to take it when you get it as far as the snow this year.

John

 

[Murph]

Mt Bachelor has snow

Refused to wait any longer in Tahoe.

 

[6.7megamax]

Refused to wait any longer in Tahoe.

Where'd you go!!?!?!?!?! Im in Reno and cant take it anymore!

 

[WILLIS]

SilverTip, Scotty, Myself and some others are heading to Alpine Wy.

 

[mountainhorse]

Have fun in Alpine... Love Bedford... find a local to show you around.

 

[Murph]

Where'd you go!!?!?!?!?! Im in Reno and cant take it anymore!

Mt Bachelor, Oregon.

Less than 8 hours, cheap hotels, well stocked Polaris dealer for the a arm Val taco'd.

First time here. Definitely coming back.

 

[mountainhorse]

Val???


Hmmm.....







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[WILLIS]

Have fun in Alpine... Love Bedford... find a local to show you around.

Silvertip has us covered. About 8 of us from California driving out and meeting some of Johns friends from Boise area that know that area of Wyoming really well. The same group that showed John and I around the Boise area several years ago when we also had no snow here in northern California. For the people that don't follow how bad our season has been out here, it is no JOKE. Calendar year 2013 was the driest ever recorded in most of the state. There is almost zero rideable areas right now, we have had one storm over a foot of snow in almost 400 days, it is 70 degrees in the valley and there is zero precip in any forecast!!!

 

[Kale]

Interesting and sad fact from Mt. Shasta climbing ranger, Nick Meyers.

"Mt Shasta finished off 2013 with exactly 10.00 inches of water, normal is 43.21 putting us at a meager 23% of normal. Let it be known that a DESERT is classified as an area that receives 10 inches of water or less per year. Welcome to the Mt. Shasta area desert biome."

Have a great road trip!!!

Kale

 

[Scott]

Silvertip isn't on SW much anymore, is he?

 

[Kale]

Nope, since Silvertip retired he's too busy riding his quad or sled to post on the forums.

 

[donbrown]

Nope, since Silvertip retired he's too busy riding his quad or sled to post on the forums.

You go Silvertip !

 

[WILLIS]

Hey Guys, Tip and I got home from Alpine late Monday evening. Was an awesome trip. Snow was perfect as was the weather. We stayed at the flying Saddle resort in Alpine. They were excellent hosts to us out-of-towners. I posted some pictures of the trip over on west coast sledders. Enjoy!!!

 

[kylant]

we are in sun valley now, going to check out galena summit and stanley area tomorrow. then sunday we are debating about making the 4 hour drive to alpine wyoming.

do you think it is worth making the drive?

 

[donbrown]

we are in sun valley now, going to check out galena summit and stanley area tomorrow. then sunday we are debating about making the 4 hour drive to alpine wyoming.

do you think it is worth making the drive?

Did you go up the 6 then 93 to get to the Sawtooth mountains?

Or the 395 to the 80 then up the 395?

Where did you stay? How much?

How's the snow?
PICS PICS PICS

 

[WILLIS]

we are in sun valley now, going to check out galena summit and stanley area tomorrow. then sunday we are debating about making the 4 hour drive to alpine wyoming.

do you think it is worth making the drive?

YES, Absolutely!!!!!



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