White Rock Lake

[popotim]

I went up there once and turned around. The National Geographic map list the trail you took as forest road #13E34. At that point it turns into horse trail 13E15. That whole area north of the Fordyce jeep trail to the south sides of French Lake and Faucherie and some distance to the west is some sort of wilderness area that I'm not sure of the name of. I have a friend who's family owns one of the 4 cabins just above Jackson Creek campground on the east side of Bowman just past the hairpin turn. I stay there some and he's there most of the summer. Most of my info is from him. His family has owned it for 30 years, and come hunting season, they are all there and know every inch of it. Next time your up there, there's a little trail that cuts off to the north about half way between Sawmill Lake and Faucherie and takes you to the waterfall coming into the east side of Faucherie. Kind of hard to find the trail head, but its a fun trail with and awesome view at the end. Sure you and your son would enjoy it.

[traildad]

I went up there once and turned around. The National Geographic map list the trail you took as forest road #13E34. At that point it turns into horse trail 13E15. That whole area north of the Fordyce jeep trail to the south sides of French Lake and Faucherie and some distance to the west is some sort of wilderness area that I'm not sure of the name of. I have a friend who's family owns one of the 4 cabins just above Jackson Creek campground on the east side of Bowman just past the hairpin turn. I stay there some and he's there most of the summer. Most of my info is from him. His family has owned it for 30 years, and come hunting season, they are all there and know every inch of it. Next time your up there, there's a little trail that cuts off to the north about half way between Sawmill Lake and Faucherie and takes you to the waterfall coming into the east side of Faucherie. Kind of hard to find the trail head, but its a fun trail with and awesome view at the end. Sure you and your son would enjoy it.

This link shows the "wilderness" area.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/tahoe/documents ... usemap.pdf

On the google earth map photo of my track it shows a little stub that "y" off towards Baltimore Lake. I turned back at the sign that says no vehicles. The "y" that goes farther down had no signs that I saw before I turned back.

[traildad]

Great pictures all - especially the one with the clouds reflected in the lake. That's a framable picture! White Rock is definitely on my list to visit.

Dave

Thanks. I saw a pickup pull in a high mounted tent trailer to the "upper" camping area. The road to the back side of the lake is not as passable, but a 4x4 would work fine.

[popotim]

Yea, my understanding is the road dead ends, and is used for horse trailers as the jump off point to the horse trail from there. Doubtful they would ever catch you down there, but my friend Brett says the sheriff copter comes over from time to time with a FLIR device and swoops on motorized vehicles mainly looking for pot growers, mainly in the spring. No telling what you found, maybe some trail Jonnie Apple seed used back in the day.

[The Modfather]

The lake is beautiful.

Do you have a hi-res version of this one?

[traildad]

Do you have a hi-res version of this one?

Yes I took it with my 8mp Canon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/traildad/2777245250/

[The Modfather]

Badass! Thanks man!

[Ken]

Sweet! It's now my desktop.

[The Modfather]

Sweet! It's now my desktop.

LOL Same here

[traildad]

Sweet! It's now my desktop.

Sweet! It's now my desktop.

LOL Same here

Thanks for the compliment.

[hemingray]

I'm selling framed copies on eBay!

Just kidding...