Short notice! Jacoby Canyon (Big Bear) day trip, 16MAY15.

[Seanz0rz]

Doing a short day trip on Saturday, May 16 to Jacoby Canyon. A chance to get out with the family and give the truck a shake down.

Let me know if you are interested!

[boyfester]

Doing a short day trip on Saturday, May 16 to Jacoby Canyon. A chance to get out with the family and give the truck a shake down.

Let me know if you are interested!

I may be able to swing that.

Marc

[Jaydee914]

Damn. Can't swing it this weekend. Have fun!

[Kryptoroxx]

I might be able to swing this as well actually. What time were you thinking?

[troyboy162]

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[Seanz0rz]

Not super early. It will snow a bit Thursday/Friday so I'd like to give the roads a chance to warm up a bit.

Maybe meet up 9 or 10 ish. After the trail we will hit the burger stand with the purple Gremlin out front.

[Kryptoroxx]

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It's like 45 minutes from my house lol! How can I refuse an opportunity to test out my shackles?? At least they should be done by then. All I have to do is build the other one.

[Seanz0rz]

sorry guys, I have to cancel this one. Truck is still not in any less pieces than it was yesterday, despite 3ish hours of work. I'm ready to push it off a very tall cliff.

[Kryptoroxx]

Shoot you still got time before the weekend.

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[boyfester]

I'm still open for going up there if you'd like to meetup Krptoroxx. I'm running a stock 2014 4Runner Trail with 31" OEM tires. I was thinking of hitting some other trails to.


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[Kryptoroxx]

I am still available as well. I don't mind meeting up. Might be able to bring one of my buddies too.

[Seanz0rz]

Have fun guys. I'll be smashing stuff back together.

[Kryptoroxx]

Have fun guys. I'll be smashing stuff back together.

Wish I was closer. I would give you a hand in smashing stuff so you could do a shakedown on your rig.

I was actually thinking of linking two trails together since Jacoby trail and Rattlesnake canyon are linked by Burns Canyon Rd. It would make it a little longer. Watched some videos on Rattlesnake and it seems like a pretty easy run although snow and water would complicate things.

http://backcountry4x4.com/SC4x4TrailsHome.html

There's a link to the map I was looking at if you're interested. If not that's fine. I can do Jacoby Canyon and save Rattlesnake for another time. I will most likely have my daughter with me and maybe a buddy or two. Just a few of the guys from base if anyone.

[troyboy162]

That would make for a nice day. Jacoby should take an hourish, burns canyon should be another hour-hour and a half. and Rattlesnake would be an hourish depending on stops. Nothing crazy on any of those trails, just lots of pretty scenery. We traveled that route on day three of our "whole bernadino" and I think we finished by noon even with a side trip up tip top mtn.

[Kryptoroxx]

That would make for a nice day. Jacoby should take an hourish, burns canyon should be another hour-hour and a half. and Rattlesnake would be an hourish depending on stops. Nothing crazy on any of those trails, just lots of pretty scenery. We traveled that route on day three of our "whole bernadino" and I think we finished by noon even with a side trip up tip top mtn.
Honestly nothing crazy is a good thing for 2 rigs on 31". Some of those rocks can be nasty and right now big bear still has snow and water making trails a little more slippery.

[boyfester]

I'm still waiting for the go ahead from the wife but I think it's good so far. She's a definite no but I will have my daughter with me and possibly my son. He needs some more driving practice.

Where do we start from? I live in Newport Beach so it will take me a while to get out to the east side of BB.

[Kryptoroxx]

You're looking for Rattlesnake Canyon rd in Landers. Looks like it's about 10 minutes longer for travel. The start point is just a little farther away and down off the mountain area. Rattlesnake Canyon ascends from the desert up into the trees. I've done it before on Burns Canyon Trail and it was really beautiful climbing out of the desert. It shouldn't be hot tomorrow either. I figure lunch in BB might be a good way to go considering the cooler weather that rolled into the area yesterday.

http://www.rattlesnakecanyontrail.com/

[Seanz0rz]

Good luck guys. Give me a call if you need anything, although I'm not sure how much help I could be.

[troyboy162]

Remember no trip is done until the pictures are posted lol. I need my web wheeling!

[Seanz0rz]

Me too!

[Kryptoroxx]

For once I'm on the other side!!! lol Hoping for a great run tomorrow. Trying to get my buddy out of the desert for a little bit too. Just found out his jeep only does 55 but I'd welcome him along on the run anyway.

[troyboy162]

Some day we will do a dale mining district run and you can just roll out the front gate and meet us : )

[Kryptoroxx]

Some day we will do a dale mining district run and you can just roll out the front gate and meet us : )
I was actually thinking about running out there while there is still some blooms left in the desert. Soon it will be too hot!

[Kryptoroxx]

This was a great trip! Rattlesnake starts off pretty slow on the fun factor but ended up being a worthy trail. The scenery was amazing as it transitioned from the desert to mountain.

Burns canyon road is pretty much that. A road. Jacoby trail was very short but exciting in places. After those though we were both out of time and split from there. Natalia was giggling a lot and every time I checked on her she was knocked out. The kiddo seat got bounced a few times so I'm sure she got her excitement in. Marc took a lot more pics and video than I but here's my stuff.

Rattlesnake Canyon
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This was the only time we used a spotter the whole trail lol.
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Burns canyon
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Jacoby Canyon
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[Seanz0rz]

Cool!

[Kryptoroxx]

I have a little video as well but it's not uploading off my phone well. Tapatalk is freezing. I will post it up soon.

[troyboy162]

Man I am jealous! Looks like another beautiful day for wheeling.

[Kryptoroxx]

Man I am jealous! Looks like another beautiful day for wheeling.
I gotta say it was an absolutely beautiful day. 60s and 70s all day long. Wish there were more that could have made it. The 4runner is going through another deconstruction phase before the heat of summer comes.

[Seanz0rz]

At least I had a productive day! 4Runner is back on its tires again, and all I need is a couple quarts of ATF to fill up the power steering and an alignment next week and she is done!

[Kryptoroxx]

At least I had a productive day! 4Runner is back on its tires again, and all I need is a couple quarts of ATF to fill up the power steering and an alignment next week and she is done!
This is great news!

[boyfester]

This is along Rattlesnake Canyon Road just before the cattle guard.

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The road included mostly soft sand until it narrowed down. Then it got rocky.

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Just as the book said, we ran into a bunch of free range cattle which slowed down our progress.

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Then it got rocky again.

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[boyfester]

This area was really cool with the mixture of pine trees and joshua trees in the desert. Very pretty!

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[boyfester]

This is the only picture I took along Burns Canyon (2N02). That is a dry Baldwin Lake in the background.
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[Kryptoroxx]

You definitely took more pics than I did marc! I will have the video up tomorrow. Phone is giving me fits.

[boyfester]

Jacoby Canyon was nice but very short. We completed it in less than an hour.

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[Jaydee914]

Looks like it was a fun trip! Next time, hopefully...

[boyfester]

At the end of Jacoby, John aired up and headed north on Hwy 18 while I stayed aired down and headed south. Not even within a mile, I saw a dirt road called Smarts Ranch Rd. (3N03) going off to the left and so I took it. It headed to the Cactus Flat staging area. Instead of continuing along 3N03, a trail shot off to the right and headed up back up to Hwy 18.

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I then headed back up 3N16 past the landfill and instead of turning right on Jacoby Canyon Rd. again, I headed left on the easy 3N16. There was an old mine on the left called Doble Mine.

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I stayed on 3N16 and reached the Bellevill Holcomb Valley area which had an old cabin and some placards.

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[boyfester]

Probably the weirdest thing we encountered today were some miners on foot (man and woman) along 2N02 who had no food and half a gallon of water between them. We stopped and gave them some bananas and tangerines and I topped off their water jug. I offered them a ride to Big Bear, but they wanted to go to Yucca which was in the opposite direction of where we were going. I hope they made it to wherever they were headed.

[troyboy162]

There was an old mine on the left called Doble Mine.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z249/boyfester/San%20Bernardino%20NF%20-%20May%2016_2015/IMG_1422.jpg

Awesome pictrues!
that's a pretty cool spot. There were two different stamp mills right in the same area at different times. The big ore bin by the trail was a scam built to interest investors to a mine that never did well.

http://cms.sbcounty.gov/Portals/5/Mining/Mining_Slideshow/Gold%20Mt%20Mill%20Op.jpg

this is the mine that fed the ore bin and mill, poorly... lol.
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[Kryptoroxx]

Probably the weirdest thing we encountered today were some miners on foot (man and woman) along 2N02 who had no food and half a gallon of water between them. We stopped and gave them some bananas and tangerines and I topped off their water jug. I offered them a ride to Big Bear, but they wanted to go to Yucca which was in the opposite direction of where we were going. I hope they made it to wherever they were headed.
Yeah that did take the cake for odd. They didn't plan very well but something tells me they weren't exactly truthful either.

Their water was clear so either they had just gotten some water from someone else or they were just trying to catch a ride. Also they weren't lacking for body fat (as in really short on food) and their packs were poorly placed and packed so long distance hiking (yucca was 25-30k). Plus he should have known where they were if they were truly from yucca.

Lots of odd people from out that way and not all of them are friendly. These two were polite enough though. Hopefully they stopped for the night instead of trying to make yucca.

[Seanz0rz]

Awesome pics!!! I am bummed I missed it, but at least I was productive!

As for the two hikers, Peyote is a hell of a drug...

[Kryptoroxx]

I wish I could have tagged along for the rest of it. Natalia was getting so tired of being woken up lol. She went to bed at 6pm and slept till about 7am this morning.