395 North to Lake Tahoe

Ed Manifold wrote:
Thanks for your reply, I just pulled it up on the web and I seethat it's not off 395.

It is off I-80 and you get off on the Yuba Gap. It is a private preserve owned by NACO up in the Sierra's. Never been there, but they get something like 500 inches of snow in mid winter there, lots of bear in the area, fishing, trails. So I am going to check it out and get out of this high desert. Getting hot today at 100 degrees. But I will start my trip around the twentieth taking my time, stopping at different places off 395 to fish different creeks like McGee creek right across from Lake Crawly. Convict Lake for a couple of days and June Lake. So I will not arrive at SnowFlower until the 25th and will stay there for three weeks. I have heard that it is real nice. Hope they are right, we got other RVers coming out of Las Vegas to join us. So it should be fun.

But I did drive that route up from Bishop one time pulling a trailer with a pick up and I thought at the time that it was pretty steep. But I have also driven this coach up to Idyllwild several time from Beaumont and it has gone up pretty easy with no problems and that is around 7200 elevation at about a 6% grade.

I will wash the radiator one more time and the CAC to make sure it has plenty of cooling. I never have had problems with it as far as oil getting on it because the tube was way down where if it threw out oil it would not get on the radiator. So I am really looking forward to this trip. It used to be a very scenic route once you start climbing from Bishop all the way to Tahoe.

SnowFlower is 60 miles from Reno off highway 80.