Fordyce Memorial Weekend!

[KYOTA]

Steve- I will be trailering it since right now it's green stickered and don't have the time to get it smog'ed
I don't like setting up camp at night even though we always do   I think since we don't know what the trail is like lets do it when it's daylight.

Kyota- www.ciscogrove.com great place my  

The entrance to Fordyce is right at the campground.

Fernando

thanks Fernando! thats awesome that the trail is right there

[Snowtoy]

Steve- I will be trailering it since right now it's green stickered and don't have the time to get it smog'ed
I don't like setting up camp at night even though we always do   I think since we don't know what the trail is like lets do it when it's daylight.
Fernando

Friday morning still isn't a guarantee we wouldn't be setting up camp in the dark .  It seems like no matter how early we plan to leave it is always dark by the time we get there.  Friday sounds good though, especially if we end up having to go elsewhere.

[Snowtoy]

i have a question. should i put my doors back on my truck?

It depends on the time of day you are heading up.  If it is daylight and the weather is good, no, if it is night time, you might want to.  One 4th of July weekend a few years ago, Raul and Fernando all but froze in his '84 w/half doors coming in at night.

[kiyul4130]

well i think we'd be rolling in a little bit before dark. my heater works great though. ill decide last minute, i just dont want to beat up the doors.

[84rocktoy]

I'm getting excited going to bust ass and work hard on my rig to make sure my tires clear . Sawsall and Big FH will come out again 

[Snowtoy]

well i think we'd be rolling in a little bit before dark. my heater works great though. ill decide last minute, i just dont want to beat up the doors.

Might want to bring a heavy jacket/hat and gloves as well.  00Rokyoat(Mike) froze w/his half doors on his 3rd gen the Friday morning we headed out for the round-up in August '07.  I think he was more bundled up that morning than when we are snow camping.  

Do you run w/half doors, or no doors at all?  If you run w/o doors, you could just pull them off when you get to the lake and then put them back on when you go home.

Also you can get ticketed for no doors.  I think Fernando had a CHP measure his half doors once a few years ago.

[Snowtoy]

I'm getting excited going to bust ass and work hard on my rig to make sure my tires clear . Sawsall and Big FH will come out again 

What size meats are you trying to clear?

[lilbuddy]

kyota go in throguh cisco grove or eagle lakes. dont go in thru meadow!.

im pretty sure (matt aj james and i) are going to go in thru cisco grove and i am going to bet callen and kyle are also.

well be to the staging area around 9-10 friday night

[lilbuddy]

i have a question. should i put my doors back on my truck?

Last year the weekend after memorial was tits and totally perfect weather for having doors off.

the weekened before (last years actual memorial weekend) it was snowing and weather

[kiyul4130]

well be to the staging area around 9-10 friday night

sweet. we might as well all drive together then.

[lilbuddy]

sweet. we might as well all drive together then.

for sure

actually well probably be there a lot sooner than that. it only takes like 2-2.5 hrs to get there. i was just assuming, knowing the way we are, we wont leave till 7 yet all of us will be ready except one person.

i gotta fix my truck. damnit. i so dont want to.

[KYOTA]

kyota go in throguh cisco grove or eagle lakes. dont go in thru meadow!.

uh doi I was talking about going OUT that way but not now. Tony is in and said we'd unload my truck at eagle lakes entrance, have one of the women watch it and take my tow rig up to cisco campground and he'd follow me in his sidekick thingy and bring me back down then we'd head up the trail. IIRC if you go in thru cisco you're missing alot of the lower tail? oh yeah as of now (could change) going in friday morning-ish

[84rocktoy]

However you guys get there make sure you stop by for a 

[Snowtoy]

IIRC if you go in thru cisco you're missing alot of the lower tail?

If you go into Fordyce Lake via Cisco Grove you miss the entire trail up to the Committee X-ing. i.e., 3 river/creek x-ings(depends on how much water is being released), drive-line hill, sunset hill, winch hills 1-2, and about 9 miles of the trail).  From Committee X-ing to Meadow Lake you have winch hills 3-5, and the big mud pit(most of the time).  On holiday weekends this section of the trail is usually the busiest and takes the longest to get through to Meadow.  We have spent hours sitting due to breaks(none in our group) on this section of the trail.  If you get an early start on Saturday(Sunday normally has less traffic), you should be able to run the trail all the way to Meadow, then turn around and make it back down to Committee X-ing before dark, that is if there aren't a lot of people on the trail.  If you didn't want to run the rest of the trail in the dark, you could then head back to Eagle Lakes via Fordyce- to-Cisco route, then about a mile or so down HWY 80 to Eagle Lakes.  You could be back at camp in about an hour from Committee X-ing over running the rest of the trail in the dark, then again running the trail on 40's or 42's shouldn't be much of an issue in the dark either.

[Doof]

i have about a days worth of little to get done... so im in

i hope to have all my ready and sitting so after school, its a shower, load and prob roll to buddys and wait for other people or roll where ever and post... i cant wait, im so stoked

edit:
and im rolling half doors rain or shine... ive got to keep me more dry then wet so its all cherry

[46&2]

I would imagine the weather is going to be nice, still probably going to be cold as ice at night though. If you are drunk by then it won't matter anyway.

If you stop in GV hit me up I will probably be around. Doubt I will have the new tranny and clutch in let alone money to go though 

[Doof]

if we stop for food ill call you guys there for some chow

[thegoofster21]

dont forget to call me !!

[Blingn]

anyone have what the flows are on the crossing right now?

[KYOTA]

anyone have what the flows are on the crossing right now?

http://www.dreamflows.com/

[Hyena]

running out of time.

[lilbuddy]

just looked at dreamflows and its pretty low, only at 60. last year it was around 150 on may 30th when we went.

[-Matt-]

thats girl thingy

[84rocktoy]

Lets hope they keep it low, I know we did not get the snow pack we have wanted. Hopefully the snow run off is not too bad

Hyena get your motor fixed

[46&2]

I could have guessed its that low they are already going to be holding back

[kiyul4130]

im going to call pat today and head over to his house to get check out the springs he has. hopefully hes got what i need and i can get my spring packs dialed in and ill be ready to go again.

[84rocktoy]

oohh flop, http://www.dreamflows.com/graphs/day.063.php

Hope they decrease it for Memorial Weekend   Might have to camp at the Eagles Lake campground

Cause I'm not crossing at 300CFS

[Blingn]

we will be there this weekend.  If it is that high the buggies might cross but I am not. 

[Doof]

chris... how high was it last year we were there for memorial? wasnt it like 250 or something around there?

[46&2]

Yeah holy hell, we went to the south fork of the Yuba river yesterday and it was raging, about 2-3 weeks ago they were not letting nearly as much water out