SC Dusey Run September 2005

BrettM said:
we gonna start taking bets on how long this will last?
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I meant I will go easy on you guys in regards to the wheeling schedule. I will still be around here though. :wave:
 
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Big Red said:
Sounds good. I was just trying to get people to think about when and where they wanted to go. I wasn't trying to give anyone hell. I'm going to use a PTO day at work for the Swamp Lake run and I don't really want to use another 1 for wheeling because my family in IL always wants me to come out there, but because the Dusy trail is so long 2 days is really pushing it by the sounds of the terrain and its length. I did the Rubicon in 1 day with many stops and made it through a 19 hour Fordyce trip last summer so I don't mind a nearly 24/7 2 day run day & night. I have rock lights and like night wheeling anyways. It's so peaceful, quite, colder, and the stars are shining bright. Great time to wheel to avoid the traffic jams on the Con during the day. We should make good time because Dusy isn't as famous as the Rubicon so that should be good. Hopefully we can keep the breakdowns and downtime to a minimum and start the trail on Friday night and finish on Sunday night. I'll see if I can find the club you said does this run and/or see if I can find someone with experience on it that would want to join us. Maybe I can get my Boonie Bouncers club in Roseville to come out, they are a great good of people. :)

Troy
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Good luck doing it in two days. Last time we did Dusey all the way through we ran out of gas and we had to cross courtwright resevoir using kerosene (luckily it was dry). Oh, and my mom says she almost ran out of diapers. Glad I don't remember that trip.
 
Bryan C Why don't you plan and organize a run. Or are you afraid nobody will show up. Can't imagine why nobody wants to wheel with you. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE said:
As you can see by my good rep/rock rash points, people love me. Who won some $ off of the bet on me??? Congrat to that person, glad to help. :laugh3:
I just have some "cabin fever" and want to wheel, sorry to be annoying. :wave:
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ChuckD said:
Here it is Troy, since your seem to be scheduling impaired, since I am your VP, I feel obligated to help you out.


Here's the dates: 1-4 Sep

Meet at the Dinkey Creek camp ground Thurday night on the 1 Sep.

Hit the trail on Friday 2 Sep @ 8am, starting at Courtright.

There is no changing the dates, they are set in stone! If you really want to go on this run, plan accordingly!

I call Big Red (aka Troy) as your trail run coordinator. He will be expected to coordinate the trail activities, food and hopefully find you a decent trail leader. I'll be pray for you guys while I am in TX.

ChuckD
SC VP
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Actually looking at the calendar, I could do:

Meet at camp Friday night 9/2 and start the trail Saturday morning 9/3. Finish the trail Monday 9/5 sometime and head back home. How does that sounds? How many people are off of work 9/5 Monday and would like to do this? I have never done this trail, but I'll get some good maps. People who have run can lead if they want. This isn't a joke, this is very workable for lots of people with the holiday on Monday the 5th and the great length of the trail (33 miles) just meet the minumum requirements like 31"+ tires, rock sliders, hopefully 1 locker etc. I have a winch and can help anyone with extraction if needed. Post up on who wants to go. Let's run it North to South. :wave:

Here's some links for the Dusy Ershim trail around the Fresno, CA area:

Map and general info from Californiajeeper.com:

http://www.californiajeeper.com/dusy_ershim/review.htm

Other people's desc and pics of the trail on the web:

http://www.4x4wire.com/trail/report/ca/dusy03/

http://www.off-road.com/4x4web/travels/dusy.html

http://www.roughwheelers.com/casper/Dusy/FrameSet.htm

http://www.expeditionexchange.com/dusy/index3.htm

http://www.willrobinson.com/jeep ...Trail/album.htm
 
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Big Red said:
just meet the minumum requirements like 33"+ tires, rock sliders, 2 lockers, and the normal NAXJA rig requirements
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fixed it for you.
 
basalt51 said:
fixed it for you.
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Thanks Jason, is the trail that hard? I read that it is Rubicon like, so I guess so. Sorry, I was thinking about Swamp Lake when I wrote this. Hope to have a good group on this nice long 3 day weekend in Sept. I'm staying clear on the Rubicon that weekend for all the traffic on it.
 
It's that long.

I don't think you'll get 10+ rigs to go with you, but its a possiblility. If you're trying to plan this far ahead then you're trying to plan a large, organized run. Having requirements like "maybe lockers or something" isn't going to inspire people to join you. Certainly not anyone that knows anything about Dusy-Ershim anyways. That leaves you with a bunch of inexperienced, poorly equiped people running one of the longest and most grueling trails in the Sierras. Ask Goatman and Andy how fun it is to tow those people through 5 miles of trail. You won't want to have to do it for 15 miles.
 
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I guess you're right, he might not be smart enough to tow them the short way :D
 
basalt51 said:
I guess you're right, he might not be smart enough to tow them the short way :D
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I would turn around thank you very much and get that person off the trail back to the staging area. I know how long the Fordyce trail took last year and this would be many times worse due to the trail's length. I'm hoping to get some of the heavy hitters in our Chapter to commit to this run to keep it a NAXJA only run, otherwise I'd like to open it up to others on Pirate and other clubs in the area.

Let me stress that I'm not trying to point the finger at anyone, because I know how busy people are with family obligations, vacations, etc. I was just hoping to get onto this trail with the narrow window we have between when the snow melts from this past winter and starts back up again.

Troy
 
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Big Red said:
Thanks Jason, is the trail that hard? I read that it is Rubicon like, so I guess so. Sorry, I was thinking about Swamp Lake when I wrote this. Hope to have a good group on this nice long 3 day weekend in Sept. I'm staying clear on the Rubicon that weekend for all the traffic on it.
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You'll want 32" tires minimum, with one hard locker (not limited slip), and rock rails, and the appropriate spare parts. To run the trail in three days will be like running the entire Rubicon each day. You don't want many problems.

That is a good weekend to run the trail. By runnning it from north to south, you have a better chance of getting the good camp spots at Ershim Lake, since most groups will likely run it south to north. It's a ways out, just post up the dates and times and let it happen.
 
Goatman said:
You'll want 32" tires minimum, with one hard locker (not limited slip), and rock rails, and the appropriate spare parts. To run the trail in three days will be like running the entire Rubicon each day. You don't want many problems.

That is a good weekend to run the trail. By runnning it from north to south, you have a better chance of getting the good camp spots at Ershim Lake, since most groups will likely run it south to north. It's a ways out, just post up the dates and times and let it happen.
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Thanks Richard. Whoever wants to go, let's meet up late Friday 9/2 at the North staging area or early Saturday 9/3 and start the trail around 9 a.m. or so to give us a good start. I wouldn't be against going 1/2 way in and then back out the North end depending on how things go.

Richard, is this trail truely like the Rubicon or Fordyce? That's all I can compare it to at the moment because that is all I have run. Is it continuely challenging where you cannot let your guard down much, or are they long periods of mild stuff? Just wondering, I'll do more research on it.
 
Big Red said:
Thanks Richard. Whoever wants to go, let's meet up late Friday 9/2 at the North staging area or early Saturday 9/3 and start the trail around 9 a.m. or so to give us a good start. I wouldn't be against going 1/2 way in and then back out the North end depending on how things go.
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That would be a good run, that's what Bronco and I did the year before. We caught up with the rest of the group at Ershim. Then we followed them back out the next day.
 
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