![]() If you create a campfire of any kind on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Maps and information are available at:Ĭalifornia requires Campfire Permits. ![]() It is all cross country hiking from here. The summit is out of site from the saddle. The western end of Hot Springs Peak is straight ahead. From this saddle (elevation 5,200 ft) you can see your first objective straight ahead. Beyond here the road becomes much worse and takes you downhill away from the summit. A 2WD car should be able to make it here if the road is dry. At 4.2 miles from the paved road there is a saddle and this is a good place to stop. ![]() If you end up in a very dusty area and are driving over moguls (like I did), turn around and go back to the main road and try again.Īt the last left at about 2.3 miles from the paved road the dirt road gets a little more rocky and traverses up the side of a hill towards a saddle. Head into the canyon you see straight ahead. Stay on the main road and stay left at all the forks. This dirt road has lots of forks and it looks like it is an OHV playground on the weekends. Stay on this road for about 3.5 miles, past a energy production plant, over the railroad tracks, and then just after a sharp right turn there is a dirt road on the left signed as 26019. Travel 15.3 miles North on Hwy 395 to the signed paved road to Wendell and turn right or east. I drove completely around this small range looking for the perfect starting place and finally settled on an approach from the west.įrom Susanville take Hwy 36 east to the junction with Hwy 395 and turn NORTH on Hwy 395. There are private land areas to the east of the summit, that block the easiest approach to the summit. Getting ThereIt is easy to find the Skedaddle Mountains, but it is difficult to find a good place from which to hike the peak. Hot Springs Peak located in the Skedaddle Mountains is located on the northwestern edge of the arid Great Basin characterized by eroded volcanic mountains and expansive desert valleys. This peak is exploring at its basic level - there are no improved routes, no trail signs, no developments. Hot Springs Peak is ranked at #53 on the California list of most Prominent Peaks. The California/Nevada border is just east of the range. The Skedaddle Range is located approximately 25 miles east of the town of Susanville, California. Most of the Skedaddle Wilderness Study Area is administered by the federal department of Bureau of Land Management (BLM). There are 545 BLM wilderness study areas with a total area of 12,790,291 acres (51,760.47 km 2).OverviewHot Springs Peak is located in the Skedaddle Wilderness Study Area which is located mostly in Lassen County, California. Some areas permit activities that are generally excluded from wildernesses, such as mountain biking and off-roading. Some WSAs are managed in exactly the same manner as "wilderness areas", a specific government designation and not synonymous with the natural state of "wilderness. Wilderness bills often include so-called "release language" that eliminates WSAs not selected for wilderness designation. īLM manages wilderness study areas under the National Landscape Conservation System to protect their value as wilderness until Congress decides whether to designate them as wilderness. Opportunities – provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.Naturalness – generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature rather than human activity. ![]()
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