Our annual New Years ride is coming up. The first arriving RUTS members will mark camp in with RUTS arrows from 20 Mule Team Road and Highway 395.

See MAP links below for camp location
Our club ride scheduled for:
Friday Dec 27th through Wed Jan 1st

We will be camped at the first dry lake bed, in the same location we have used for past 7 years.

We will have planned rides to the Husky Monument, Inscription Canyon, Randsburg, The Squid Pit, The Gold Fish pond and an “Around the Peak” single track advanced ride. We will have a Saturday night potluck desert, and a Sunday morning “Church in the desert”.

Saturday: Squid Pit / Gold Fish pond, Potluck Desert
Sunday: Church in the desert, Husky Monument
Monday: Randsburg
Tuesday: Inscription Canyon
“Around the Peak”, early morning and or late afternoon…possibly multiple times.

GPS: 35° 13.258’N 117° 26.582’W
Google Earth (KMZ):http://tinyurl.com/RUTSnewyearscamp
Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/RUTSnewyearscamp2
PDF Map: http://tinyurl.com/RUTSnewyearscamp3

DIRECTIONS. Take highway 395 NORTH from Kramer Junction (395/58) for 18.5 miles Turn RIGHT onto Cuddeback Road (20 Mule Team Road).

If Cuddyback dry lake is DRY, go 5.2 miles and turn RIGHT again onto a marked road that will go TOWARDS the dry lake. There might be RUTS arrows at this intersection.  Go right towards Cuddeback Dry Lake and turn RIGHT once on the lake bed. Follow the Lake / road to the 5 way intersection. There will be more arrows at this intersection. Go THROUGH the intersection, and continue approximately 2 more miles to the un-named dry lake at the base of Fremont Peak Mountain.

If Cuddyback dry lake is WET, go 4.6 miles and turn RIGHT again onto Hoffman Road, the road will take you all the way to the 5 way intersection. There will be more arrows at this intersection. Go THROUGH the intersection, and continue approximately 2 more miles to the un-named dry lake at the base of Fremont Peak Mountain.

Please don’t forget to bring a dessert to share SATURDAY night and also FIREWOOD!
For more information or questions
Check out the RUTS Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/racersundertheson/
or email ruts@ruts.org

The Mittner and Harris’s will host this years Thanksgiving Club Ride at Ocotillo Wells. Come join us before or after your family dinner. They will be setting up camp on TUESDAY. If you arrive earlier, please MARK in your location, so we don’t have two camps on Thursday. Fly a flag, mark on a pie plate or print you up some RUTS ARROWS on card stock! Come out for a low key, relaxing weekend of riding and some campfire fellowship. Camp will near the same location as last year.

Potluck Thanksgiving dinner and field trip to “Salvation Mountain” on Friday! To join the conversation about the ride, click this link to go to our Facebook page.

San Diego chapter of the CMA (Christian Motorcycle Association) will also be in attendance.

Directions:
Hwy 78 to Cahuilla Trail. Hidden Valley Camp.
If your coming from Salton City (86), turn onto the 78 and then a RIGHT onto Cahuilla Trail, just before you get to the Blue Inn RV Park.
From the Julian entrance, turn LEFT on Cahuilla Trail just after the Blue Inn RV Park. As you are going down Cahuilla Trail, just past Commune Rd there will be some hills. Pass the hills and turn left and camp right by the hills. As you pull in you will see a kids track that we will camp near. FOLLOW the RUTS arrows.

GPS coordinates:

33.148694°, -116.040667°

The Mittner and Harris Families will be trail-bossing this weekend

Camp will be marked with PINK RUTS arrows from highway 78 to camp by Tuesday evening.

For more information or directions, call Barry Mittner @ (805) 990-7231 or Evan Harris @ (619) 549-9557.