I am going camping and wheeling July 25 – July 27. I am heading to Gold Lake up past Sierra City. If you have never been there is a great place to camp, Lake front on Gold Lake. Most 4wds can get to the camp site, one year I saw a Lexus SUV back in there. There are five trails in the area to wheel. We will do some or all of them. In order of difficulty.

Deer Lake – Short trail that connects the Sierra Butte Trail and Gold Lake Trail, Deer Lake is a nice small lake with decent fishing.
Sierra Butte – Pretty easy trail with only one real difficult section climbing toward the fire look out. There is a nice hike to the tip top of the mountain and the fire look out. The fire look out actually is on metal stilts over rocks. Great views, a bit windy up there.
Gold lake Trail – More difficult that the previous and goes around the Gold Lake area.
Snake Lake – The hardest trail in the area. Nice ledges and a couple of good rock climbs. Its a short trail, take about 2 hours to do the loop and return to camp.
Poker Flats – This trial is near us but closer to Downeville. It drops down the canyon and climbs back up the other side. Climbing out is steep and has some loose gravel/sand.
Waterfall – Close to the camp site there is a waterfall that you can hike to see. Its not a raging waterfall like Niagra but its a nice little fall.

The plan would be to camp both nights at Gold Lake and do trail runs and return to camp each day. The trails are close enough and short enough that people can go do the trail and return within a few hours. Those that want to hang and fish have that option as well. We can do a pot luck for Saturday night if enough people are coming.

So who is interested? I will also be posting this up on the High Sierra 4×4 forum as well.

Huck