 From Lake Tahoe USFS@LakeTahoeUSFS Visitors are reminded that bears continue to actively seek out human food and trash at trailheads. Bear canisters are encouraged.
DO NOT leave any scented items in your car or it may look like this when you return. Plan ahead and leave scented items at home. @DesoWV @TahoeSouth  With the potential for more damage — this time by humans rather than fire — the area torched by the Sliger Fire has been closed to vehicles. State Parks has closed the only road into the Auburn State Recreation Area at the fire site off El Dorado County’s Sliger Mine Road.
The Sliger Fire fire broke out Sept. 4 in the middle fork American River canyon and threatened to cross the river from the El Dorado County side into Placer County near Driver’s Flat Road. Instead, it was contained to 150 acres without crossing the river. Mike Howard, Auburn State Recreation Area superintendent, said that the blaze burned down to the middle fork. While the cause of the fire has yet to be determined, the fire originated off Sliger Mine Road about 100 feet above the riverbed on the El Dorado canyon side. The fire burned over part of the Wendell T. Robie Trail and Sliger Mine Road. With old mining roads now visible and accessible in the burned area, a decision was made by State parks to close the area to vehicles, Howard said. The closure comes about a month before the normal winter closure in mid-October that is put in place to preserve the portion of Sliger Mine Road that winds down to the river, he said. A Cal Fire forester inspected the fire area and informed State Parks that there were no real immediate erosion issues caused by dozer lines. “Most of the issues could rehabilitate itself but there is concern about vehicles on the newly visible trails and roads,” Howard said. The road should reopen in the spring, he said. The no-vehicles-allowed Robie Trail remains open to park visitors on foot or on horses, Howard added. CLICK HERE to see the original article in the Auburn Journal newspaper.  On Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, 23, 2018, the Folsom Lake Mounted Patrol is holding their benefit Poker Ride this weekend, based out of Granite Beach parking area. Horse campers will arrive Saturday morning and stay through Sunday evening. There will be food trucks and approximately 140 trucks and horse trailers filling up the Granite Beach parking lot on Sunday. They will be using the hiker/horse Pioneer Express Trail between the Douglas Road kiosk and Sterling Pointe for the majority of the ride. If you are not a participant in this event, please consider using other trails on Sunday.
Bicyclists have been requested not to ride your bicycles through the Granite Beach parking area and to stay on on the multipurpose trails. There will be State Park Rangers at the event. The Poker Ride benefit funds the Folsom Lake SRA Mounted Patrol and trail maintenance.  The map shows the location of where ground wasps have stung several hikers and horseback riders (and their horses) in this past week.
As you climb up from the creek and take the single track to the right, just past the maintenance yard and the Orleans mine equipment, the ground wasp nest is close by to a tall cedar tree with branches that hang over the trail. Angry territorial wasps are not happy with anyone on that trail. The wasps are gone from the Long Bar- thank you, Sterling Pointe Equestrian Staging area volunteers! But, there is a nest about 75 feet north of the "knee knocker" rock - the one that has the large red cross on it. Two riders were stung today.
The volunteers said they will try to get a trap out this week. |
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