FJ Cruisers of Northern California
High Sierra 2010
Date: Wednesday, September 22 - Sunday, September 26
Location: Eastern Sierra
Level: All
Comms: CB - 31, FRS/GPRS - 7-31, HAM 147.52 simplex no tone
Cell signal: Available on the trail when in direct line of sight with Mammoth Lakes, which pretty much means the beginning of the trail to around the aspen grove before the turnoff to the campsite.
Weather: highs in the mid-70s, lows in the low-30s overnight.
Campsite: dispersed camping (no showers, no toilets), please bring wood if you can!
Official trail runs:
Friday - Mazourka Canyon/The Narrows and Thereabouts
Saturday - Kavanaugh Ridge/Bodie Ghost Town/Mono Craters exploration
Alternate "rogue" runs will be most likely scheduled and proposed.
National Public Lands Day:
Free admission to Devil's Postpile National Monument and Mono Lake
Volunteer opportunity: TBD on Saturday AM
this is the official thread for the annual High Sierra run. despite having considered moving to an alternating base camp/expedition style run, we'll stick with the base camp idea this year. we'll establish base camp on Laurel Lakes trail again.
395 to Trail Head: http://bit.ly/cwHI0p
Approximately 1.5 miles of dirt road once you get off 395 at Sherwin Creek Road
the High Sierra run, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the format, is part trail run, part vacation. we will only establish 2-3 "official" trail runs and the rest of the activities are planned impromptu or on-your-own. last year, several folks went fishing, kayaking and sightseeing. more details on the planned runs will be outlined in the coming weeks, but will most likely include Coyote Flat, Mono Craters and yearly favorite, Kavanaugh Ridge.
also, i am looking into a possible volunteer opportunity for National Public Lands Day on Saturday, the 25th. i will most likely propose something in the nearby Mammoth area...perhaps a trail clean-up. for those of you who are unfamiliar with National Public Lands Day, it is the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to help sure-up and clean-up our public lands. it also allows free admission to most national parks and monuments (Yosemite, Devil's Postpile and Mono Lake included).
Final Roster (20)
GHOST
Sonof40
TOE 4X4
gringo (good luck worked...now for the chorizo!)
CentralCalFJ
downy_ball
CowboyCEO
Bz
Botched
FJ Scout
Bozly
MoreFJland
FJ4 Tahoe
Robbie
Estysalinas
Will
Ranger Jim
paraextreme
FJWanderlust
CA Annie & MoabFJ
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by manoweb on
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Are you interested only if it is difficult? :)
I will send more info real soon.
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Indeed. Last year unfortunately in the High Sierra trip I got so much dust in my nose that it took weeks to cleanup, literally. I think the 3-4 rigs formula should prevent most of these issues. If we can use ham radio we can stay 10 - 15 minutes to each other and always be in touch in case of problems.
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Permalink Reply by potatomutato on
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i think staying further behind everyone would resolve those issues...you are still going to get dust up your nose if you have your windows down and you are following close behind someone no matter how many rigs are on the trail. the only benefit of having fewer rigs is less time on the trail.
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Well but in the post above... I said exactly the same. If everybody stays at 10-15 minutes to each other the problem is solved. And, yes, you cannot do that with 14 rigs, it would take too much time.
In any case, I will come up with more details on the run I am thinking about for everybody to see. Ideally this would be done on Saturday.
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by staying further behind, i do not mean 10-15 minutes apart. there are potential problems that can come up being spaced that far apart from each other, but i'll leave it up to you if you wish to do so.
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That is why I mentioned ham radio... By having at least the "leader" in the group and the last one always in contact, if there is a problem for any vehicle we should always be relatively safe.
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