I went on a one nighter last weekend, starting from CA Route 70 near Quincy, CA. Rode up a single lane paved road to an old hydroelectric plant and the former company town of Caribou- very cool place.
Then up gravel switchbacks to the partially frozen Butt Valley reservoir.
From the reservoir to Route 89 was a mudfest!
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Several miles of paved rollers on 89 followed, then back onto dirt, up and over to the semi ghost town of Seneca, CA.
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It was a kind of neat place, but not much to see. Backtracked about a half mile and camped on a little offshoot road. The next morning, I tried to connect to a road going back to my start point by way of the next valley over. The road was snowed over, but I was able to get by pretty well by following truck tracks....
...until the tracks stopped and turned around. I tried to continue on my own, but breaking trail through the snow was more work than I wanted to do, so I turned around too. Went back to Seneca, then a short cut to Butt Valley, where it was even muddier than it had been the day before.
EDIT: Aw, man. I can`t ever seem to get images to insert any more
Well, here`s a link to all of em if anybody wants to look.
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t...Seneca%20ride/