Some Pics of My Recent Meanderings Through the Mendocino National Forest

Here's a few pics from Twin Valley Road. This is a sweet trail with a couple of cool little water crossings and it leads North and opens up to a bunch of other trails. Unfortunately, I only made it a few miles down the trail when I hit a big ditch that I didn't feel like tackling without sliders or a wing-man. I ended up having to drive in reverse for like 1/4 mile before I could find a spot to turn around.

Kyle and myself are heading back there on Sunday to see if we can fill in the ditch enough to get across.

Forest Route M5 also leads to some awesome trails but it requires crossing the main creek and when I was there on Sunday there was a gravel bar that had to be hit perfectly to get across the creek and I wasn't comfortable trying to cross it solo.

More Twin Valley

Here's a few from Indian Valley Reservoir

All the rest of these pics are from Walker Ridge Road. WRW has some great views but it is super bumpy and just beats you up.

A cool little turn-off where I stopped and grilled some dogs.

Indian Valley Reservoir and Mount Konocti in the background.

More from Walker Ridge.

 

Looking over Highway 5, Williams, Colusa, and Sutter Buttes State Park in the distance.

I believe this is the Cold Spring look-out.

Airing back up before hittin' Highway 20.

Very cool explorations!  My dad and I used to roam eastern Oregon when I was a kid, just miles and miles of dirt roads.  We did a bit of upland bird hunting there, chukars and quail, and some deer hunting too.  Fun times, your pics made me think about that.

I should take the kids up there sometime, looks like some good roamings.

Goddamn, this site is annoying. I guess we can't post portrait pics without them being automatically rotated by the site?

wonder why everyone is on....... f...., t.... and i.... now..........

Wow!  Thanks for sharing your trips with us RH.

Didn't realize you were getting so High D!  . Trips look like a bunch of fun, hope I can be your passenger sometime.

That water crossing at M5 is one of my favorites, but I've only ever done it on 2 wheels.