May Stony Trip! No bike! Just a Jeep!

My Jeep chillin' on 17N10 just above the board camp above Letts Lake!  So cool the board camp is this little community of small cabins that are open seasonally to those who own the properties.

Sweet high mountain glade with a vernal pool in the center of it! This glade was HUGE! about the size of three foot ball fields. This is up on 17N10 right before it turns into 17N14. (above Letts on Board Camp Ridge)

This is hard to see but kinda cool. This is a natural spill way for the vernal pool during typical torrential Mendocino rain season. The depression in the foreground fills up and over flows down towards the bottom right hand corner of the picture

the spill way leading down the slope.

This is the spillway finally leading down the slope away from the vernal pool and glade. It looks like the forest service placed a pile of wood and sticks at the bottom of the spillway to slow down any fast moving water to thwart erosion.

this was on the other half of the glade. There was a huge depression in this area but to my superise there was no pooling water...thanks glade

cliche hipster flower field pic

White pine in the background...not sure what the little guys were...prolly small white pine lol

cliche hipster meadow with weird plant pic

i guess if you have the urge to play a sport while camping this would be the most ideal place to do this.

cool pic! this is the entrance to the glade from off 17N10

this is up top by Goat Mountain right before the gate >:(

The USFS dug a huge 8 feet deep hole around the side of the gate preventing you from going to the top where there's a radio tower. lol my dumb ass almost went head first into it not realized the USFS booby trapped it! Tu Che! I guess I wasn't supposed to do that? hehe

I hope we can continue to ride here in the future!!

tree by Mill Valley

This was a dying tree we saw climbing up Snow Mountain by Dixie Glade. WOW if you don't like switch backs Snow Mountain is the hike for you lol it goes straight up!

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April 25th 2014 Stony Trip

STONYFORD OHV APRIL 26th 27th 2014

Driving up Lovelady Ridge! in a stock 7.3 fully loaded diesel with 2 bikes in the back lol yes the first part of  Trail #1 is black diamond...we were stupid.

Up on top of Lovelady Ridge after the gnar black diamond section

Lookin' west towards Clear Lake a little to the left out of frame is approx where the Upper Lake Stonyford OHV corridor lays. We took it this trip it was bad ass! Its like 12 miles once you leave hook up onto road 17N16 (the OHV corridor route). What a cool system the Mendo trails are...if only they were one way.

Goat Mt. Road coming down Lovelady you can see the entrance to the trail right off the road there. lol never again in a truck.

Idling up Trail #1

Trail 23 on the right Trail 02 on the Left comin' down Trail 1

NATURE!

Little Stony Creek! Due to recent rain (and awesome riding conditions by the way) this creek was moving pretty good. If you wanna check out Lovelady you'll have to cross this. This is us leaving and right on the other side of the creek is Goat Mt. Road.

Trail #26 "Cracker Box" off in the distance creeping up Cracker Box Ridge leading to 4-5th gear access trails! 

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