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Contact: Jack Raudy
(530) 389-9154 or email jraudy@foothill.net
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUBS
2004 Spring/Summer/Fall Series Historical SUV Trips
The California Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs and many of its clubs
annually host narrated backcountry historical trips that are tailored for
sport utility vehicle and other four- wheel drive families. Typically, these
are one and two-day trips to visit scenic and historical sites in California
and Nevada. The trips are carefully planned with safety being paramount and
require occasional mild four-wheeling. The following list of events is not
meant to be all-conclusive. As other trips are added, we will get information
to you. Here are the trips that we have planned so far:
May 15 SUV Tour of South Cow Mountain near Ukiah
Hosted by the Mendocino 4X4 Club, this trip affords
participants to travel over many of the 200 miles of trails and unimproved
roads in the 23,000-acre South Cow Mountain park, operated by the Bureau of
Land Management. $30 per person, which includes a trail lunch. Contact Jim
Looney at (707) 462-3281 or Mike Woll at (707) 485-0346.
May 22 2nd Annual Gold Country Historical SUV Run
Hosted by the Sierra Treasure Hunters four-wheel drive club, this annual
trip takes participants into the high Sierra to various historical gold rush
towns and scenic sites. The trip will begin at the Empire Mine in Grass Valley
and include a continental breakfast and gourmet trail lunch. Cost is $50 per
person and children ages 12 and under are welcome free of charge. Contact
Ron Kellogg for more information at (916) 714-3230 or email kelloggr@saber.net.
June 19 Keyesville/Black Gulch SUV Run
Hosted by the Bakersfield Trailblazers. Attractions
on this trip include the history of Keyesville as a historic mining area,
petroglyphs of the Palagewan Tubatulabal Native Americans and the ecology
of blue oak and foothill pine. Cost is $25 per adult (age 16 and over); children
under the age of 16 are welcome free of charge. Registration fee includes
picnic lunch at Evan's Flat. Contact Kristin Lollich (661) 836-9315; Ken Lollich
(661) 587-3666; email mowlawnder@yahoo.com
and website trailblazers4x4.com.
July 16-19 Lassen-Applegate Historical Trail Ride
Retracing the historical trail used by more than 8,000
early pioneers in 1,500 covered wagons during the 1849 to 1852 gold rush period.
The trip begins in Lovelock, Nevada and concludes in Surprise Valley, California,
located near Cedarville in California in northern Modoc County. Cost is $250
per adult; $125 for children age 11 and under. Cost includes all meals. Contact
Ron or Carole Vance at (775) 246-4099 or email vance@intercomm.com.
July 17 Cody Meadows SUV Run
Hosted by the
Capital City Mountain Goats four-wheel
drive club. Attractions on this trip include a visit to an active line cabin
used by cowboys driving cattle, the "Devil's Garden," scenic overlooks viewing
Cody Lake, Horseshoe Falls, Strawberry Canyon, Kirkwood Meadows Ski Ranch
and Caples Lake. BBQ lunch, trail snacks and drinks provided. Cost is $55
per adult; $10 children seven through 17 years of age and children under seven
are welcome free of charge. Cost includes meals, gourmet hot lunch, trail
snacks and soft drinks, a booklet on the area and one dash plaque. Contact
Dennis Bartholomew at (916) 421-7788 or email dbbrart@earthlink.net.
August 5 Historical SUV Tour of Lake Tahoe area
This trip is part of the 38th annual Sierra
Trek, the largest all-volunteer 4X4 event in the U.S. The trip begin at the
Meadow Lake base camp and takes participants to the Donner Memorial, Blackwood
Canyon and Ellis Peak, where you will have a 360 degree panoramic view of
Lake Tahoe, the eastern portion of the famous Rubicon Trail, Desolation Wilderness
and many other points of interest. Cost is $130 for adults and $35 for children,
which includes all meals from Thursday breakfast through Sunday breakfast.
Contact Bob Reed at (925) 447-3142 or email robertreed5@comcast.net.
August 7 Narrated SUV Tour of Meadow Lake area
This Sierra Trek SUV trip will afford participants
the opportunity to visit historic mining camps, portions of the famous Henness
Pass Road, a stacked masonry dam and a journey to the top of the Sierra Divide,
where on a clear day you have magnificent views of Mt. Lassen, Castle Peak,
Old Man Mountain, Signal Peak and the Sierra Buttes. Cost for this trip is
$110 for adults and $35 for children. Cost includes all meals from Friday
evening dinner through Sunday breakfast. Contact Bob Reed at (925) 447-3142
or email robertreed5@comcast.net.
August 7 Bear Valley Trip Also part of the annual Sierra Trek event, this trip is organized for
SUV and other four-wheel drive owners looking for something a little more
challenging. Cost for this trip is $100 for adults and $35 for children and
includes all meals from Friday night dinner through Sunday breakfast. Contact
Bob Reed at (925) 447-3142 or email robertreed5@comcast.net.
September 11 Mormon Emigrant Trail Ride
Hosted by the Flat Fender Jeep Club, this narrated
trip begins in Placerville and ends in Genoa, Nevada. Participants will learn
about the early Mormon pioneers' travel, when they were called back to Salt
Lake City. Participants will hear quotes from their diaries and visit locations
where there are still visible ruts left by their wagon wheels and explore
their old campsites. Cost for this trip is $75 per vehicle. Guests will furnish
their own food and beverages. Contact Kate or Oly Olson at (530) 622-1117
or email olyo@canvsnowmobile.com.
September 18-19 Bodie Ghost Town Loop near Bridgeport This
trip into the rolling Bodie Hills is being hosted by the California Assn.
of Four Wheel Drive Clubs The trip takes in the remains of an old mining region,
including the ghost towns of Masonic and Bodie. For trip prices and more information,
contact Oly or Kate Olson at (530) 622-1117 or email olyo@canvsnowmobile.com.
October 16 Slate Mountain Trail Trip
Hosted by the
Capital City Mountain Goats 4WD Club,
this trip takes participants from Placerville into the high Sierra to an old
suspension bridge across Mosquito Canyon, an old forest service lookout atop
Slate Mountain and the ruins of a 1920's, six-story hotel hidden in the forest
over growth. Cost for the trip is $55 for adults, $10 for children seven through
17 years of age and children six and under are free. Cost includes a gourmet
hot lunch, outhouse trailer, booklet for the trip, trail snacks and soft drinks,
and a dash plaque for each vehicle. Contact Dennis Bartholomew at (916) 421-7788
or email dbbart@earthlink.net for reservations or more information.
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