The Trip 2016 is here!

This year's Trip 2016 is finally here! There have been a lot of head count changes with life getting in the way of our fun, but the latest figures put us at about twelve guys and eight rigs. Some members are coming out late or leaving early, so if you can't make the whole trip, just find someone else to carpool with. The tentative plan is to meet at the far back dirt parking lot of Cabellas near Reno on Thursday, May 26, around 7pm. There will be a pre-trip camp night there. Around 8-9am on Friday morning, the  group will head northwest through Gerlach towards Stevens Camp in Black Rock Desert. Official camp night #1 will be as close to Stevens Camp as we can be. We'll head further into the desert the next morning, taking us across the High Rock Canyon trail. We hope to find a location to base camp near the mid-west portion of the Black Rock Desert playa where we will hopfully stay the rest of the trip. This is probably our final year traveling to Nevada, so come out for some fun in our neighboring "free" state! See the list below for a food shopping each member should bring:

Breakfasts:
Biscuits and gravy
French toast
Breakfast burritos
Pork steak and eggs

Dinners:
Pork steak, potatoes, broccoli
Hamburgers
Mac n cheese
Spaghetti, zucchini, sausage

Lunch for days we're at camp. (2 days)
Hotdogs

Shopping List per person:
1lb bacon
1 pack hot dogs
2 tubes sausage
1 large (milk style) carton of eggs
2 pork steaks
1 loaf of bread
2 zucchini
1 lb hamburger
1 box Mac n cheese
1 lb cheese
2 potatoes
1-2 crowns broccoli.

Nick and Nik will bring some of the odds and ends like condiments and veggies for the burgers, some extra boxes of Mac n cheese, milk and syrup for French toast.
 

Quick Update

Added a slide show for Broken Freedom, Sierra Nevada, 2015 to the left side of the website.


Also, our loose plans for this year's (2016) trip is to drive north west from CA into the Gerlach, NV area.  Then we'll head toward the southern trail head of High Rock Canyon immigrant trail, which will lead us to its exit in the mid-west portion of the Black Rock Desert.  See the youtube video link below for that trail:
https://youtu.be/FyDh8O6lTas
We hope to base camp near the mid section of the Black Rock Desert; which leaves us with over 100 miles of open flat playa to explore over several days.  As a backup (in case the playa is impassable), we can always shoot up around the desert to the Lovelock area and out to Seven Trough's, where we have played in the past.  there is TONS of empty public land out there, so expect a laid back, fun trip.  Still, plan for the worst and bring appropriate gear for any condition!
https://youtu.be/Hi_GvT60_Cg