5 day excursion along the 395

[timberwolf_120]

Hey everyone me a buddy and my mom's went on a fun 5 day excursion all around the 395 in so cal a few months back. We hit a new spot each day except for day 4/5 we stayed in one spot cause we fell in love with the area. I'll post pics and videos here shortly.


Here's a short video of the whole 5 day excursion.

 

[timberwolf_120]

Alright here's pics in the best order as I can remember lol


Day 1 Mazourka Canyon

My mom's xj

My buddy mark and I (he's driving) Also ob member #0114

Mom's and mark

Beautiful scenery up here. I never even knew this exsisted.

Tree in ancient Bristlecone forest

camping night one

 

[timberwolf_120]

Day 2 backside of Mazourka Canyon and into coyote flats the back way.

Found this very peculiar water catch basin. Any ideas??

End of Mazourka

The difficult side on the way into coyote flats

Another place I never knew exsisted.

camping for the night at rock lake

 

[timberwolf_120]

Day 3/4 this is the day we made it to laurel lakes and just camped out for 2 nights and played around in the lake. Boy was it cold.

On our way out of coyote flats

goofing around

Serious face

waterfall

And to think this is only 5 miles off the highway.

Beautiful laurel lake

Little flex at camp site

camping for the next few nights

And a cool rock chair we found

 

[timberwolf_120]

Day 5 woke up and headed north to beatty ghost town and ate lunch in Bridgeport

Had to grab one last pic of the lake

Coming down

Coming down

Goofing around

at the mill in beatty

15 or 20ft lathe can't member lol

Transformer at the power distribution center

Beautiful pool table in the bar

And the town of beatty

Had a truly fun adventure and can't wait to move back to cali and be done with the military so I can do more adventures like this. Hope yall enjoy the pics.

 

[Randy P]

That's awesome! Any maps or waypoints, landmarks, trail names, etc... I've never been through that way, but looks like something I'd like to try!

 

[vegasjeepguy]

Great trip

 

[timberwolf_120]

That's awesome! Any maps or waypoints, landmarks, trail names, etc... I've never been through that way, but looks like something I'd like to try!

we used the guide book from southern California and just kind of picked spots that looked like good spots and looked doable for both rigs

 

[Raul B]

great job.... that book is great.... I would also highly recommend the GPX files with all their trails.... I cant remember how much it is but its nice to have everything loaded up on the tablet.

 

[OverlandRecon]

That looks like it would be a great trip for the summer. What was the water temp, when you were up there?

 

[timberwolf_120]

great job.... that book is great.... I would also highly recommend the GPX files with all their trails.... I cant remember how much it is but its nice to have everything loaded up on the tablet.

Yea we used that as well. Just couldn't find it on amazon lol

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[timberwolf_120]

That looks like it would be a great trip for the summer. What was the water temp, when you were up there?

The lake was nice prolly high 40s low 50s. The river out of the mountains was ice cold prolly closer to low 30s high 20s. We jumped in the river and legs almost instantly went numb.

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[JUSTIN DELAND]

Great looking trip! Was looking into doing Laurel Lakes at the end of the month. Can I tackle it in a 2 x 4 4Runner?

 

[timberwolf_120]

Great looking trip! Was looking into doing Laurel Lakes at the end of the month. Can I tackle it in a 2 x 4 4Runner?
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There's nothing really crazy. Stock dodge rams make it up there.
The turn to go down to the lake is a bit of a duzy, in such that it's a hairpin turn on a shelf road. But it's doable for sure.

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[Doods]

Wow, I want to drive the whole 395 also.