astro 25 – spring 2017rnolthenius/astro25/spr... · 25 then quick left turn on bloomfield rd...

To Bring…

• WARM clothes!!

• Personal camping gear (tent, sleeping bag etc)

• Personal water, lunch food, any snacks to share

• Red headlamp (EverReady at Outdoor World works great, $20 or so)

• Binoculars if you have them.

• 3-ring binder notebook for notes, maps

• TP on trail, towel for any wash up, dipping in the (cold!) streams

• Camp chair for around the fire

How to Get There: It’s a 4hr 30 minute drive, 229 miles. That’s

one good reason to carpool!

Directions: Take Hwy 129 exit through Watsonville, to Hwy 101 north, to Hwy 25 then quick left turn on Bloomfield

Rd which “T”’s into Hwy 152

Then stay on 152 through Los Banos and on to Hwy 99, then south to Visalia

Exit east onto Hwy 198 and stay on it into

the Sierra foothills. Go through the

town of Three Rivers

and…

…Pay attention; Note Eggars Drive. We’ll be driving back down here for our graze

on Saturday afternoon

Continue to Potwisha Campground on your left.

There’s an overflow parking area on the far side if we have too many cars for our sites (not unlikely!).

We’ll sort that out when you arrive

We have reserved sites

14, 15, 17 at the upper end, where the trail

starts. I will try to get another site if there are late cancellations by other campers

The trail to

Marble Falls.

One of our 2 neighboring graze station sites, this at 1.90 km north of the limit

Closeup of our Graze site at 1.9km North