Southern California Tacoma Club

The club took to the trails of Big Bear again and enjoyed the mountains, wheeling, biking, camping and more . . . plus pizza!

46 files, last one added on Jun 22, 2010

A day trip to the newly reopened Rowher Flats near Santa Clarita. The weather way perfect and the wheeling mostly mellow but fun, great views and good times for John, Nick and Dennis.

81 files, last one added on May 17, 2010

Fossil Falls, Keeler, Cerro Gordo, Lee Flat, Hunter Mountain, Hidden Valley, The Racetrack Playa, The Lippincott, Saline Valley, Steele Pass and Dedeckera Canyon, and North Pass! A lot in just three days of driving and hiking in Death Valley National Park!

203 files, last one added on Apr 26, 2010

The El Paso Mountains and some good fun that included Burro Schmidt’s Tunnel, Bickle’s Camp, Sheep Springs, the Dutch Cleanser Talc Mine, Goler Canyon, and everything in between.

100 files, last one added on Mar 29, 2010

A muddy, sloppy, wheeling like a boat, rocky, sandy, silly, fun run that should have sucked but was actually one of the most fun in the Calico Hills!

132 files, last one added on Feb 08, 2010

We started the year off they way we finished the last, with a trip to Yucca Valley to enjoy some easy times on the trails and some relaxation at Sal’s place. Cool weather and great fun made for a good day.

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A great time in Yucca Valley relaxing, wheeling and enjoying the desert!

58 files, last one added on Dec 15, 2009

A nice trip to Death Valley National Park to see the Race Track and camp at Homestake, and then head down to Saline Valley to see the everything and camp at the Springs. We then exited via Steele Pass. A great trip with a little of everything and mostly good times.

108 files, last one added on Nov 28, 2009

Pleasant and South Park Canyons followed by an optional trip up Goler to Butte Valley. Like two trips in one!!!!

181 files, last one added on Nov 03, 2009

The Whole Bernardino was the club's successful attempt to run every major trail in the San Bernardino Mountain Range from the Cleghorn to Old Woman Springs near Johnson Valley! It was a wonderful time! The pictures are from Cleghorn, Pilot Rock, 2N17X, Willow Creek, Dishpan Springs, Gold Mountain, John Bull, White Mountain, Jacoby Canyon, Pontiac Slice, Rattlesnake Canyon with the bit of 3N16 and 2N02 tossed in!

103 files, last one added on Sep 22, 2009

A fun easy wheeling and backpacking trip to the Eastern Sierra to see beautiful lakes and camp in a wonderful quiet place! A great trip!!!

79 files, last one added on Aug 25, 2009

A great trip up into Inyo National Forest to see the Bristlecone Pines (the oldest trees on earth), Cottonwood Creek, a hike from about 11,000 to 12,000 feet to see how we’ll we could do, a couple of interesting trips on a bike and more in a great weekend of fun!

201 files, last one added on Aug 03, 2009

A great time in San Bernardino National Forest, north of Big Bear on some of the best trails in the area, with the best team in So. Cal.

50 files, last one added on Jun 16, 2009

A run to the desert ended up being during a slight heat wave, and with all that is going on all around, it ended up with John and I at Jawbone on a Saturday Morning wondering if we might go look at something new today! So, we decided to decide about Pole 19 and the other trails in the EL Pasos later and off we went to Indian Wells because a book said there was some good places to see!

84 files, last one added on May 17, 2009

A great two day trip for the Colorado river to Afton Canyon, with a sand storm tossed in at the end to make it fun!

184 files, last one added on Apr 05, 2009

The club enjoyed another great weekend in the Death Valley area, this time in the Funeral Range visiting Echo Canyon and Chloride Cliff. Plus a couple of hikes, mines, a stop in Beatty and a whole lot of fun!!! Another wonderfully fun and informative run for the club!!!

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A great trip up Rattlesnake Canyon and up Heartbreak Ridge (Pontiac Loop) in the San Bernardino Mountains exiting via Burns to Baldwin Lake. We had wonderful views, a few obstacles to make it fun and a great little group that made for a perfect day!

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A wonderful trip to Saline Valley and Cerro Gordo with a hike to a waterfall, side trips to all sorts of things, and the Summit Station of the Salt Tram to top it all off. Weather wise we saw everything but for snow on this trip and that made it all that much more special. Truly one of the best trips yet!

293 files, last one added on Nov 03, 2008

Nightmare and its environs, Goler and a lot more made for a perfect trip to the EL Paso Mountains. Juan’s gravity defying truck leap up the falls was the wheeling highlight of the whole trip! Everyone had a blast with John in the lead! Pictures here are from Dennis and John. Good times!

204 files, last one added on Sep 22, 2008

Good times trying to hit 12K in the Sierras! Made it to 11,700 ft! A great trip west of Bishop!

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A fun day run to Lockwood and the Miller Jeep Trail. An early start left us alone on the trail and without problem we cruised through, having an excellent time along the way!

53 files, last one added on Aug 20, 2008

A run up to Sherman Pass and Monache Meadows in beautiful Sequoia and Inyo National Forests. Good weather, only a few light showers, and a great team made this a fantastic trip up into the Sierras!

117 files, last one added on Jul 14, 2008

Dishpan and John Bull, followed by a trip to Holcomb valley before heading back to camp at Serrano. A good trip that was the other half of our club’s little run up there. On Dishpan every one enjoyed the falls and running John Bull west to east was good fun. A great day that ended at nearly 6 PM. Good times!

38 files, last one added on Jun 09, 2008

Gold Mountain and Jacoby Canyon (out and back), followed by a trip to Holcomb valley before heading back to camp at Serrano. A good trip that was one half of our little run up there. Lots to see and Gold is in a little “funner” shape than usual for much of its length. Jacoby was beautiful and offered a few little fun places. We did it out and back then headed to Holcomb Valley and back to camp.

123 files, last one added on Jun 08, 2008

Death Valley National Park running the Slate Range Trail followed by running Goler Wash to Butte Valley. Perfect weather and great scenery for the entire trip with stops along Panamint Dry Lake Bed, the Keystone Mine and Barker Ranch (for lunch) on the way up through Mengle Pass to Butte Valley. Attendees camped in and around the Stone Cabin and enjoyed the fantastic view of Butte Valley. In the morning half of the group headed back out Goler while the other half continued on to Warm Springs to the West Side Road and out via Shoshone (with the required stop at China ranch for date shakes).

244 files, last one added on Jul 08, 2008

Another fun and successful trip for the Southern California Tacoma Club! This time we took a small group, our specialty, to Calico again and again, we had perfect weather and the trial nearly to ourselves! A great time with a great bunch of folks. A lot of pictures of the trip that claimed on drive shaft, on CV, one tire and a dented quarter panel. Fun!

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SCTC members Dennis, John and John’s daughter Kailey and their dog Rudy took this easy trail from Silverado to Ortega Highway near Lake Ellsinore. Great views and fanatic weather made it a fun trip over the Santa Ana Mountains. Good times, close to home!

43 files, last one added on Oct 21, 2007

A club run up to Big Bear to see the snow. One of two runs put on by the club on the same day! A number of trails were closed due to the fire damage from fall wildfires but there was still plenty of adventure and fun in the snow! Good times!

24 files, last one added on Dec 10, 2007

One of two runs on the same day, the San Jacinto Snow run started and ended with more mud than snow but, the team was not denied snow and had a great time in this very scenic area!

69 files, last one added on Dec 09, 2007

The club met in Anza Borrego to enjoy the desert. The club ran Pinyon Mountain, including the notorious Squeeze and Hart Attack Hill, South Coyote Canyon, the Calcite Mine Trail and more.

143 files, last one added on Dec 09, 2007

Three days or wheeling and two nights of camping in Death Valley National Park. Most of the trials were easy but the views amazing. On Friday the SCTC went up Hunter Mountain, through Hidden Valley to Teakettle junction then down to the Racetrack Playa and camp at Homestake. Saturday had the group go down the Lippincott and up Saline Valley with stops at the Salt Tram and Hunter Valley before getting into camp at Saline Warm Springs. Sunday was Steele Pass, DeDeckera Canyon and Eureka San dunes before heading home.

185 files, last one added on Nov 06, 2007

We were voted into CA4WDC and off we went to the dirt. Our original plan to play in the San Jacinto Mountains was ruined by the forest closures due to the fires. So we ran North Coyote, the only thing we could find open. An easy and quick trail turned into hours of socializing. Good times!

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The Southern California Tacoma Club completed another successful run as a number of members and guests completed Rattlesnake Canyon and Heartbreak Ridge (Pontiac Loop) in the San Bernardino Mountains before exiting via Burns Canyon. Through it was a rainy morning, attendees experienced perfect weather both on the desert floor and up in the pine covered mountains. Coupled with great wheeling, it made for a perfect day!

138 files, last one added on Oct 15, 2007

The inaugural SCTC run was a good kick off for the club with nine rigs, a big run for our little group and a lot of fun but it ended with a boom! Lead by Dell, the group spent the whole day enjoying the dusty trails. Only one mechanical casualty, a blown engine on Mike’s rig, which lead to having to abort the plan to run more trials but we did complete the Cleghorn including its many more difficult alternates, 2N17X and the east end of Pilot Rock. We’ll have to head back up and explore Willow Springs!

128 files, last one added on Sep 05, 2007