Southern California Club Xterra
Southern California Club Xterra => SCCX Xcursions => Topic started by: xtoolbox on March 16, 2010, 11:15:25 PM
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Due to conditions (Soda Dry Lake is wet and more weather on the way) and low participation going to try and reschedule this one for a later date.
Orginal plan was:
North bound Meet: 7am @ the Chevron Gas Station.
12659 Foothill Blvd Etiwanda, CA 91739, US
Exit the I15-E at Foothill Blvd and turn right, just past in-out.
http://tinyurl.com/yeo4xp
General run Meet: 9:30am @ the Afton Canyon Camp ground From the I-15 N between Barstow and Baker exit Afton Canyon Rd and head east on the dirt access road to the campground. Afton has lots of space for camping for those that want to get early start, stay friday night.
Please remember to fill-up at the last gas [Yermo/Calico] before Afton or bring gas cans. Bring enough gear, supplies, food, water, etc for two full days on the trails.
The Mojave runs are always epic, highlight of the year overland where the scenery is the main draw, most easy easy wheelin' on various Terrain through some fun water crossing in Afton, Soda Lake unique salt flat, looks of sandy wash
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awww i am totally down for this if it was after april 15.... Nooooooooo :(
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I was there two weeks ago ... beautiful and stock friendly too.
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/10-3%20Mar%202010%20Mojave/ (http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/10-3%20Mar%202010%20Mojave/)
I'm a no go on this - I've got a business trip. :-\
... to 'Vegas! :o
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Sounds like another M O E !
Mojave
Overland
Expedition!
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xtoolbox, is a 4x2 capable? If yes, I'm in. :-\
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Amy and I are in!
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so no chance of moving this to the next weekend huh. :( that's two Mojave trip I am missing in a 3 week period.
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Patrol : possible, couple of spots of deeper sandy tracks, river crossing, one hill climb where 4x4 is nice to have. W /some good driving, momentum, air downed offroad AT tires you should be ok, if not we can always help or strap. What kind of tires are you running?
Spencer: only weekend I can make it otherwise yeah.
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Sounds like another M O E !
Mojave
Overland
Expedition!
that was a fun day....
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Sorry cant make it. Maybe this weekend 3/27 or 4/15? For another run?
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sorry to thread jack. how about a garage day after 4/15. I took the frontier to work yesterday. I have no brakes.....
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Patrol : possible, couple of spots of deeper sandy tracks, river crossing, one hill climb where 4x4 is nice to have. W /some good driving, momentum, air downed offroad AT tires you should be ok, if not we can always help or strap. What kind of tires are you running?
Spencer: only weekend I can make it otherwise yeah.
xtoolbox I have a BFG 275/70/16
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Im in!!!
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i am a possible, and +1
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Due to conditions (Soda Dry Lake is wet and more weather on the way) and low participation going to try and reschedule this one for a later date > 4/10-11
Brian
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okidoki. I was ready for my first trip with the club. Is ok lets see next one.
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Please keep me informed! I was in the Mojave Desert last weekend (March 27th) and would love to run the Mojave Road with you guys! No snow, right? ;) HaHa
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brian , any thoughts on anew date. I am chomping at the bit as I am getting ready to deploy again.
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hey everyone,
just thought id post up and say hi. im pretty interested in this run. ive made some recent upgrades on the x and im looking to try them out. although im a little hesitant until i get new shocks. if anyone has any ideas for me thatd be great but i guess im itching to get out with yall seein as its been forever sonce my last run with the club. and my last run didnt exactly end well. so i gotta redeem myself. anyways if we can pick a date for this before it gets way tooooo hot that would be sweet.
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Can this trip be made on one tank of gas?
thanks for the info!
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Depending on your ride, I was able to do it last time with the group with a full tank right from the trailhead to finish. I believe we did close to 150+ off-road miles in that 2-day venture.
But my confidence was brought about by the strong support of the club... and extra fuel in Oz's truck. ;D
My X is a 1st gen... Supercharged... (premium gas only).
But as always, as a golden rule, come prepared.
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Thanks I guess all wait until I figure out where I am going to mount some spare fuel.
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I'm posting from 'Vegas.
Drove by Afton and took a look at the water crossing and it didn't look bad.
Further down the road Soda Dry lake isn't.
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I am dying to go on this run! Any idea of when it will happen yet?
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I lived in vegas for 12 years. Have you taken the Wheeler Pass from Indian Springs (north of LV) into Pahrump? It's an exciting drive. The pass on the LV side of the mountain is EXTREMELY rocky. all loose boulders - i made it up in my last truck, a 2WD tacoma with the rear locker - but barely made it - and spent several slow hours trying to make it up one small section. Once you get to the Pahrump side the main road gets smooth and wide and pretty fun to drive fast on. Also on the Pahrump side there are a large number of roads that open up to you that allow for some exploration - and there is some good exploring to do, there are some old mills and other things to look at as well as some fairly difficult trails. When I was like 13 we went in a group of 60's-70's heavily modded pickups and went on a nasty trail up there - had to push over trees. There are also wild horses up there and we saw a heard of at LEAST 300 large elk about 7 years ago, but never again since then. The horses are pretty tame and will come up to the vehicle although caution should be observed, there are several small herds and sometimes you can can see the 2 males fighting - Discovery Channel style.
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That sounds like a great trip Guano. You should get it organized. I would love to go.
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I'm not sure when I'm going to be heading towards Vegas again - but every time I do i try make a Wheeler Pass run. I was trying to get out of Vegas for a long time so I'm not really in a hurry to get over there again.
My only problem with the place is there is NO WATER! So if you go camping you'll have to bring your own. It was awesome being that the place was so close to Vegas that it was prefect for day runs and there are also a lot of trails up there other than Wheeler pass and some of them can be pretty challenging, for instance there is a 500ft gorge that you have to to descend and ascend on one of the trails, I saw a large lifted suburban stuck in the bottom of it with all 4 wheels off the ground, stuck on the front and rear bumpers, the descent and ascent I would say is a 15% grade, straight up, no switchbacks - The 500 foot proving ground lol. There is also some awesome geology up there as well as different habitat types. You start off in the at the bottom of the desert and work your way up into pinions and sagebrush (high desert) and there is some areas that are full-on alpine and it's funny because that mountain range is completely separated from any other alpine range for quite some distance. The alpine areas are not on the main wheeler pass, but once you get over to the west-facing side of the range you can find some trails that lead into some alpine areas.
Here is a video I found on wheeler pass, check it out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-115675295219226467# (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-115675295219226467#)
From living there for so many years I pretty much know every trail within 150 mile radius of Vegas excluding Death Valley and Dumont area (other than the dunes, been there.)
High Sierra's are my location of choice. I'm def going to plan a 3-4 day trip to take a tour of some of my favorite trails along the 395 between Bishop and Lake Tahoe on the Nevada side of the Sierras some time this year. I know of some pretty epic places that are always close to water. I'm also all about off-trail driving and camping as much as possible when it's legal, some of the best places to camp have no roads and you have to make your own fire ring. There is also lots to discover up there such as arrowheads, old homesteads, precious stones and ancient alien technology. I have some great pics of my last trip up there in my prerunner Tacoma - and there were some places I just couldn't make it to with just a rear locker. If anyone wants to go this year let me know. I'd like to get out and practice the traditional nav methods as well... topo/compass, sextant, stars, pure reckoning lol.