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After our return to outpost La Porte for fuel and provisions, we followed the coordinates on our PDF back to the Sawmill Ridge warming hut and back on to the Plumas NF BDT. Once arrived, our next coordinates set us off down 23n10 to intersect the Pacific Coast Trail and we were excited to see...

This warming cabin is one of a series of cabins on a maintained snowmobile trail system in the area of La Porte, Little Grass Valley Reservoir and Onion Valley. This cabin is somewhat remote on the trail system and therefore probably important to those seeking it. It was well decorated and had...

Our navigator whipped out the Plumas NF BDT PDF ASAP and we were able to determine coordinates to the next stop on the trail. The Sawmill Ridge warming hut is just that - a hut, with a stove to keep you warm. This was a new phenomenon to me, as I haven't seen these in my local area and New...

Gibsonville must have been a substantial scene at some point in its history. The cemetery here his big, judging by the Howland Flat cemetery we saw (though, now that I think about it there are 3 cemeteries there and I didn't explore two of them). The location of this place is slightly up the...

We took to the maps of the AO and found the route that would take us to the next step in this adventure. In this case we would weave out of the campground and back on to La Porte Rd (120), which would then lead us into 511. Our paper map ($20 well spent at the La Porte General Store) showed it...

Day 2! We woke up in a mooring in the Tooms RV parking lot at Little Grass Valley Lake. We had seen no one else parked out when we arrived last night and aside from the hosts of the Latin music concert last night, we didn't see anyone else here until we walked down to the lake to check it out...

spray plasti-dip, like people use on wheels. Doesn't stick great, and I don't know if it faded his paint after the trip, but it does work. Clear contact paper. I've heard of someone using that. I was really tempted to just make the joke "you aren't going to risk pinstriping driving around...

Hope this brings some enjoyment to folks. One of my favorite pass times is to read trip reports so I produce material I can read later and relive my adventures. Hopefully this sparks some interest in folks too, a super simple yet challenging and engaging adventure through back country that is...

On point good sir. Quality snaps.

We picked a spot and backed up to a view of the lake through the trees, which we could just make out by the shimmering moonlight on the water. We set up the table, made some Campedrank and got comfortable. The crew had been manning their stations on the bridge all day and we were all glad to get...

Heading back out the way we came, we got an interesting reverse perspective on all the things we had just spent considerable energy absorbing and immersing ourselves into. We passed more quickly on the way back, more familiar with the bumps and grinds of the road we were traveling. We made one...

After we had visited the grave sites and made our appropriate prayers in a sacred place, we boarded Serenity and headed on to Poker Flat. Our light was fading rapidly and without the extra LED lighting that was still installed in a pile on my living room floor, I was had apprehension as we...

A click or so past the ruined town site of Howland Flat and its national forest plaque lies the cemetery of the people who used to live here. With names like Huges and Sinnot and Goard and several un-named plots, some markers were clearly invested in and some were just a collection of rocks in...

Wow. Some great set ups... I'm more of a KISS camper. This is my usual load out when heading into the woods. A bit more food, a bit more water and a bit more comfort when the woman joins me. A good folding table has become a necessity when taking the better half and our furbabies around...

Frigin love me some nature photog's. Bored at work, so here's a bit of the collection. Could do this all day... Can't wait to get out and about!!!

I guess if I had 40 grand to waste on an adventure rig I would. Naaaaahhhhhh, I'd go cheap and easy to fix and deck the thing out to be camping like a god. My $3000 long bed 3/4 ton can probably go anywhere most of your $40k rigs can. That last one is a special treat for ya'll...

The yuba is still flowing high, so the crossing may be blocked. I speculate though, as I haven't been down there this year. Anxious to hear about conditions too, as this leads me back to my Plumas BDT that I need to finish.

Gonna have to bump into all these awesome OB groups sometime soon. Living in Grass Valley kinda puts me in the middle of a buncha stuff.

There seems to be a certain point on my travels into the back country when the energy starts to feel more natural. I don't know if I can describe that feeling any better, but I'm sure some of you know what I mean. The hustle and bustle of civilization has a certain flow and push and ferocity to...

As we kept climbing the knife edge flattened out and we entered in to a high meadows type landscape. It took me a minute to figure out why the topography had become mostly uniform, intermittent undulations of a whitish stone with periodic clearings in the trees. It was an alien landscape, until...