Advocate I
This last Sunday a friend and I headed out to explore Tamarack Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and camp for one quick night. We hadn't been up there, and actually just took or tow-pigs. I was in my '11 Chevy Silverado 2500 (Duramax/Allison) and he was in his '06 RAM 2500 Megacab. Both are 4x4, and both are lifted with 35x12.5-18" tires. Most of the drive was freeway, to a winding paved forest road, then a few miles of basic dirt/gravel, and finally the last ~2 miles are very rocky and tight (at least, tight for the fool-sizes). I wouldn't call the trail serious rock crawling or anything, but it was more than I had planned to do with my tow-pig (we have a 5th wheel Toy Hauler for our "other" camping trips).
We certainly got some funny looks Sunday by the Jeep groups heading out as we were heading in to Tamarack. That said, up until those last ~2 miles there was a Chevy Cruze following us up... seriously. He definitely got further with it than I'd want to try if I owned it. The section he did wasn't "tough" but had random decent sized rocks here and there which easily could have taken out an engine oil or trans pan. At least he had the good sense to park it when it really got interesting and walk into the Lake with his Son (I assume), then walk back out and turn around.
There was only one section where we spotted for each other, just to be safe, and the big trucks did great. As usual I failed to get any pics at the "interesting parts" since we were paying more attention to the trail, but here are a few...
As usual, I way over-packed for 1 person for 1 night:
Windshield shot on our way out once we were back on pavement:
I think this was on the way in, before we hit dirt:
And a few pics I tried to grab on the rockier parts, but they don't really do it justice:
-TJ
We certainly got some funny looks Sunday by the Jeep groups heading out as we were heading in to Tamarack. That said, up until those last ~2 miles there was a Chevy Cruze following us up... seriously. He definitely got further with it than I'd want to try if I owned it. The section he did wasn't "tough" but had random decent sized rocks here and there which easily could have taken out an engine oil or trans pan. At least he had the good sense to park it when it really got interesting and walk into the Lake with his Son (I assume), then walk back out and turn around.
There was only one section where we spotted for each other, just to be safe, and the big trucks did great. As usual I failed to get any pics at the "interesting parts" since we were paying more attention to the trail, but here are a few...
As usual, I way over-packed for 1 person for 1 night:
Windshield shot on our way out once we were back on pavement:
I think this was on the way in, before we hit dirt:
And a few pics I tried to grab on the rockier parts, but they don't really do it justice:
-TJ
