Cleveland National Forest Report

sounds like fun in late spring or summer

Think about May 9 2009, Full Moon Friday. Check the link...........

http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/

Thats the ride I met you, Jon! out in Panamint . Last year!!
I'm in!!
Bob better be there, if he gets at least 1 of his bikes working!:eek1

Just checked my schedule...
I wont even have my kids that weekend

anybody know if maple springs is open....heading up there around 6 a.m. .. trucking it to the gate (yup got my adventure pass)....hope its open has been really nice out lately...and i would love to get up into the snow.

Hey Jeff, if you want snow you'll get it. But since you got out of bed early enough to meet us at the MS gate at 4:30am last Saturday, I'm sure you mean biz.

Hey, I wanna see you ride the Jawa up the moutain. So many slideys, you'd probably beat a DS bike.

haha thanks..yup heading up there shortly.hope its open...as for the Jawa man i'm a puss when it comes to the unknown..put me on a track with the same two F'ing corners and i am good to go...tell me to ride up a mountain or threw the open desert and most peoples grandmas can kick my ass

but i'm trying to work on that and get out as much as a i can this coming year.

Maple Springs gate closed i figured that much cause nothing i could find said it was open..but on the recording it said main divide is open so i am assuming from ortega..but i decided to turn around and head home..it is freezing up there. even some patchs of ice on the road this morning threw silverado right before the gate.

That sucks! I was thinking about heading up tomorrow morning. Guess not.

The forest is in lockdown due to the recent storms. US Fuss says they need to check the roads for wind fall and rocks before opening.

Last evening, Friday, there was an 'incident' on Ortega. A car turned our beloved 'Lookout' into a drive-thru and there was possibly a fatality. I left my office in Irvine at 4pm and traffic stopped cold jast passed the Candy Store. I split off and headed up the Blue Jay loop towards the boyz camp. The road was littered with broken limbs and lots of snow. Thankfully, my audi is AWD, so I just powered through most of it. I got home at 6:30.:huh

INMO, it may be a while before they open it. USFS is not thrilled about mustering employees to come up and rescue weekenders who head up there un prepared.

Bummer for the rest of us...

Time to head to Anza-Borrego!

Pointman

i may truck it up near blue jay tomorrow. the old lady wants to go see the snow...so would ya say the OHV area off ortega got snow?? it does not seem high enough elevation???

anyways today would have been great to go up..totally clear skys this morning not even a single cloud over the peak

As per the CNF website.

I email this to a friend so I just thought I'd copy and past it here.
www.fs.fed.us/r5/cleveland/conditions/

Says Skyline is open.

Beeks place is the old ruin we saw going up from Lincoln which goes to Skyline then Main Divide.
Beeks place is where Skyline meets North Main Divide
Says Beeks Is closed.
Butt It says North Main Divide Road is open ??

Bedford road comes out by the Kawasaki test track and the Big tractor yard .
Its the first road turn off coming from Skyline .
Says its open.

Maple springs is closed. That is coming up Silverado Canyon.

South Main Divide is open . Thats from Indian Truck Trail to Ortega

Indian Truck Trail is open thats the one by Tom' Farm

yeah i dont allways trust that website..it has said maple springs is closed for awhile but it has been open for like two weeks..cool if south maindivide is open that be where i'm headed in the a.m.

north and south main is closed, and there is snow up there. wanted to hit up the ohv area, but instead i got 3 inch or so of snow and rangers shutting down the roads.

damnit... so much for the recording on there phone number..i swear they can not keep anything current

Hey punkenduro,
When did you try this? I was hoping to get to Wildomar OHV area Sunday morning.

Save your gas, all the gates here are closed for reasons previously stated, sorry...

Wild-Omar is also closed. If we get rain on Monday or Wednesday, it will stay closed to prevent damage.

We tried to drive up there from Rancho Capistrano. No way, snow and ice blocking the whole road...

Pointman, on scene!

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Pointman,
what about Skyline?
will my key work..... or is it a total lockdown?
sure would like to see some snow, local like and close up...?

Cory, all I know is what the USFS guys told me Friday evening. They said all the gates were locked.

Might be fun to check it out tho'...

Pointman

i think friday, when it reopens we should ride together. the place is pritty small but it nice to have something diffrent once in a while.