[pct-l] Golden Oak Spring Status

[montypct]

Is that Bakersfield BLM?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Maxon" <matt at mattmaxon.com>
To: "pct" <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Golden Oak Spring Status


> Access to Sky River Ranch is by permission only.... And the PCTA trail
> crews have not been able to get permission.....There are several land
> owners who need to give permission and some won't. There is a backlog of
> maintenance issues along here, well now.... there is another....
>
> The "road" up from Mojave is a very poor dirt "road" it was a road at
> one time but not any more. I rode my motorcycle up from Highway 58, very
> very poor condition. really only passable to motorcycles no ATV's I have
> seen shiny new Jeeps up there but.....
>
> The only alternative I can imaging is to have stock pack water in from
> Back Canyon Road. Here again it is on private land but permission can
> sometimes be obtained.
>
> The best solution is to get the BLM on this ASAP, there was a hiker
> fatality  south of  Golden Oaks Spring last year, the reports made it
> sound like it was heat related, perhaps this contributed?
>
> Does anyone know the final word on this fatality.... As I recall this
> person had no water.
>
> Trail90
>
> Pea Hicks wrote:
>> dsaufley at sprynet.com wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't that the area that Mary Barcik and her husband stock with water? 
>>> Their water caches have been life savers in that stretch.
>>>
>>> L-Rod
>>>
>>
>> golden oak spring is pretty far south of the first moto mary cache at
>> kelso valley rd. there *is* a dirt road that passes just above golden
>> oaks spring- maybe someone on the list knows whether it's open to the
>> public or not.
>>
>> girlscout
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