Description
This is an two night dry camping trip. Bring firewood. See the past videos and photo from April 2013 on the media page
This is dry camping and will to be a base camp trip with a loop trail all three days. You can tow to camp. No moter homes in camp but there is plenty of space for one across highway 127 at Little Dumont Dunes.
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The Saturday's run is long and starts with a driver's meeting in camp at 8:15 AM
Bring your desert mail...there will be a desert mail box.
Friday after setting up camp we'll run some local trails around camp. This is open desert camping.
Saturday we will be running out of camp and taking pavement 8 miles South to the trailhead where we turn East on the Kingston Wilderness trail. We will exit the wilderness before lunch at Excelsor Mine Rd. Then North on Excelsor Mine Rd. to Horse Thief Springs, where we will eat lunch. Time permitting, we'll pass through upper Noonday Camp and stop at the Noonday & Gunsight gold mines. From there we'll travel the Western Talc Mine Rd to the talc mine and the entrance of Sperry Wash trail and follow the abandoned railroad grade. The Sperry Wash trail makes several crossings of the Amargosa River as it takes us back to camp. There are lots of endangered pup fish in the river camp to see as you make the river crossings.
Sunday we’ll go to the mines and springs at Owl Hole Spring, Go up to the radio tower peak. This is an easy 60 mile trip across a lot of desert and mountains.
Location
Rendezvous @ 6th Street Chevron in Norco
Rendezvous at: 6th Street Chevron in Norco at 7 AM Friday morning to Caravan or meet in camp. Let me know which. In Caravan we'll stop in Barstow to go potty and again in Baker for that and gas. Lunch in camp Friday.
Directions:
Drive to Baker on I-15, 198 miles from San Clemente. GET GASOLINE IN BAKER. Take highway 127 North 29.8 miles to Little Dumont Dunes turn off and turn left on the Harry Wade exit route. This road is marked with a concrete marker containing a large brass plaque I will put out a Capo Valley Four Wheelers sign post. We will be camped somewhere within the next mile or two. If you miss the turn and get to the river crossing you went way too far, stop and go back. There will be club signs at the turns.