Author Topic: Swamp Lk, Red Mt trails later this week (Read 3364 times)

hytenor · « **on:** Jul 22, 2013, 06:15:08 PM »

heading to the Shaver area probably Thus and out Sun to run Swamp and most of the Red Mt trails
Green '00 Taco with a few mods...see you there. anyone else heading up?

tentative game plan:
Thus. to Swamp, north end, camp @ top of first ridge by the picnic table, fish Hatch Lk
Fri, head down to the valley below and stop somewhere along the trail and hike to Betty and Virgina Lks...never been there.
Head out of Swamp and over to Sand Flat...depending on time head in and camp @ Mirror
Sat. out from Mirror to Coyote
Sun. home

Anyone checked out Virgina and Betty across the valley from the mine?

Dirt Mover · « **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2013, 08:23:01 PM »

I'm going into Swamp Friday with a bunch of jeeps, some are going on Thursday. 15 - 20 rigs I'm guessing. Coming in backwards from the Brewer side.

hytenor · « **Reply #2 on:** Jul 23, 2013, 11:19:41 AM »

cool, will see you there. I may head in Wed evening and camp at the first ridge and fish Hatch...we'll see. At least I got all the needed stuff done on the truck yesterday :p

Wainiha · « **Reply #3 on:** Jul 23, 2013, 01:45:37 PM »

Didn't know you were here too. I posted a pic of your rear diff armor in some ones thread about drainplug damage.

Do you take pictures? Post some of your trip if so. Some(me) may never see your area.

E YOTA · « **Reply #4 on:** Jul 23, 2013, 05:29:43 PM »

me n my crew will be heading to swamp saturday morning n out sunday...going north ...see everyone there

madmanweaver444 · « **Reply #5 on:** Jul 24, 2013, 06:33:21 PM »

Anyone know how the current wildfire is affecting the swamp lake / red lake trails? Proximity? The smoke looks pretty nasty.

hytenor · « **Reply #6 on:** Jul 24, 2013, 06:37:23 PM »

Quote from: madmanweaver444 on Jul 24, 2013, 06:33:21 PM

Anyone know how the current wildfire is affecting the swamp lake / red lake trails? Proximity? The smoke looks pretty nasty.

what fire?
only see one new one listed well north and west of Huntington Lk

Dirt Mover · « **Reply #7 on:** Jul 25, 2013, 12:27:36 PM »

Looks like we are staying at Grouse not Swamp. Long day going in from the north and an easy day coming out.

TimberlineBryce · « **Reply #8 on:** Jul 26, 2013, 11:38:16 AM »

The aspen fire near huntington has closed the kiser pass road due to smoke, as far as i know thats the only area thats closed so far...

mountainguyed67 · « **Reply #9 on:** Jul 26, 2013, 11:44:37 AM »

Info

This is what the smoke looked like at Nellie Lake a couple of days ago.

Prather, this morning, the smoke is prevalent.

If you plan on coming up to recreate,then prepare for poor breathing conditions.

If you have respiratory problems then you might want to postpone any trips in the area.

There have been about 16 fires in the past week (most of them are contained) The Aspen fire close to 3,000 acres is still going. There is smoke everywhere and wind, temperature etc. effect it, as well.

mountainguyed67 · « **Reply #10 on:** Jul 26, 2013, 02:41:48 PM »

Quote from: TaroVr6 on Jul 26, 2013, 11:38:16 AM

The aspen fire near huntington has closed the kiser pass road due to smoke, as far as i know thats the only area thats closed so far...

Negative Ghost Rider.................................Stump Springs Road is closed,not Kaiser Pass Road. Call Prather Ranger Station at 855-5360.

hytenor · « **Reply #11 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 01:31:41 PM »

Quote from: TaroVr6 on Jul 26, 2013, 11:38:16 AM

The aspen fire near huntington has closed the kiser pass road due to smoke, as far as i know thats the only area thats closed so far...

yea, Stump Springs Rd, not Kaiser. however, the FS has been trying to discourage people from going to kaiser pass and beyond...from what I was told this last weekend by several wheelers who had stopped at the Prather station.

hytenor · « **Reply #12 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 05:24:46 PM »

Ran Swamp, West, Strawberry, Red/Coyote and Mirror from Thus-Sun. had a great time and met a bunch of great wheelers!

Trails were all in good shape...very little trash to pick up! Swamp and Strawberry were a little rougher than the last time I was there...'09 and '06 respectively.
Minor carnage @ Swamp Lk Thus...had to put in the spare rear DL due to driver error and got a tad too close to a tree with the Dr side cab that will 'pop' out...eventually. :p

bad part: couple of kids, both with female passengers in bright orange rigs...one '90s Yota with a V8 and a Chebby were bombing through trails and Sand Flat Fri and Sat. The Chev was parked, broke (rear diff, two tires) a couple hundred yards past Coyote's gatekeeper. no plates on the truck so couldn't report them. Group coming out of Coyote (early Yota, couple of Jeeps) told me they picked up a bunch of trash left by these 'kids' @ or near Coyote

I walked over to Betty Lk along the Swamp Lk trail to see if it had fish...nope, too shallow not to freeze solid. Next time I'll check out Virginia.
Was too tired to fish Swamp and had repairs to do Fri. morning so...next time. The one group there had some luck but not much.
I fished Strawberry on Sat. for a while but the huge group that was in there had most of the fish diving for cover :p
Sadly, fishing @ Mirror is no longer what it used to be...all plants that I and others caught. It seems the beautiful natives that used to be there are gone.
Didn't fish Red or Coyote this time, just went in/out.

Not much in the way of mosquitoes but they were there if you didn't have repellant on.

My neck and shoulders are killing me :p
back to work tomorrow.

mountainguyed67 · « **Reply #13 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 06:39:39 PM »

Quote from: hytenor on Jul 29, 2013, 01:31:41 PM

the FS has been trying to discourage people from going to kaiser pass and beyond...from what I was told this last weekend by several wheelers who had stopped at the Prather station.

Funny,the woman I talked to at Prather Ranger Station told me the road is open and she was frustrated that anyone would say otherwise.

mountainguyed67 · « **Reply #14 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 06:42:07 PM »

Did you see these guys?
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=245959933#post245959933

4-lo · « **Reply #15 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 06:46:47 PM »

Just got back from rescuing another rig at swamp. Looks like the fire is right above hunting lake and growing.

hytenor · « **Reply #16 on:** Jul 29, 2013, 07:04:23 PM »

Quote from: 4xsports on Jul 29, 2013, 06:46:47 PM

Just got back from rescuing another rig at swamp. Looks like the fire is right above hunting lake and growing.

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3552/

smoke in the Red Mt area wasn't nearly as bad as it was on Fri evening...winds keep changing so some areas are clear and others suck.

Dirt Mover · « **Reply #17 on:** Jul 30, 2013, 08:09:08 PM »

I was with the naxja guys, it was also 4X4Him, Bakersfield Trailblazers and Infectious Offroad. (20 rigs) at Grouse Lake. It was weird being the only Toy, but all of them were super cool.

andeze · « **Reply #18 on:** Jul 30, 2013, 09:21:49 PM »

Yeah I came through solo on Saturday, south to north, found a spare jeep tire near the trailhead, found the owner at grouse. didn't pas a single toyota on the trail

TimberlineBryce · « **Reply #19 on:** Jul 30, 2013, 10:08:15 PM »

Me and two other rigs went in from the north side on sunday, ran into a giant traffic jam of about 15 toyotas at v-rock so we ate lunch and turned around. Looks like v-rock is no longer a "V"!:(

Dirt Mover · « **Reply #20 on:** Jul 31, 2013, 07:05:57 PM »

The gut who lost the spare was super happy about getting it back. That was the second tire the group lost. The one you found was from a group who wheeled it in the dark Friday night. They arrived after 10:00 that night

andeze · « **Reply #21 on:** Jul 31, 2013, 07:43:27 PM »

That's balsy goin up rooster at night. v rock was so full of stacked rocks it was easy. I wanted to clear it out but I had a passenger that had never been crawling before so we cruised through without stopping.

monk #1164 · « **Reply #22 on:** Aug 01, 2013, 12:24:18 PM »

So who is going this weekend?

madhunt · « **Reply #23 on:** Aug 01, 2013, 04:17:07 PM »

does the ershim open this weekend??? or will it stay closed cause of the fires??

mountainguyed67 · « **Reply #24 on:** Aug 01, 2013, 05:54:44 PM »

Quote from: madhunt on Aug 01, 2013, 04:17:07 PM

does the ershim open this weekend??? or will it stay closed cause of the fires??

Opened this morning as per F.S. OHV Manager.

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