Bowman Lake RD

[Hum Wee JR]

Bowman lake RD has access to several lakes I will try to get more on here this summer as the snow clears. Friday night I rook the kid for a picnic dinner to Rutger lake. Here are few photos the lighting was poor and the camera is an older cell phone but this is what I got.

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The road in. Took the newest jeep in the fleet, little brother for his first trip off road.

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To access Rutger Lake you park in a parking lot and hike in to the camp ground and lake. No motorized boats or vehicals. This is what most of the camp ground looks like right now

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My favorite campsite

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All the camp grounds are closed for the winter, so we went home for the night and came back Saturday. (half hour drive) Saturday we started at fuller lake.

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[Hum Wee JR]

Next we went to blue lake.

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The road in

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The map

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creekside campsite

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campsite at dam

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view from dam

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now you see why it is called blue lake

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Cool little bug

[Hum Wee JR]

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Find the critter

[Hum Wee JR]

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different shoreline pics

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little island

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spring growth

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Click the last picture for a video. A view of the back side of blue lake. The tall snowy mountain is signal peak. The second lake is lake spaudling

[Hum Wee JR]

So I went back to bowman lake road a few more times once in good weather once in the rain her are some more pics
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An old cabin

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Signs we like to see

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Signs we don't like to see

[Hum Wee JR]

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picture of a map of the area. Lots of lakes, creeks 2 Rivers, the bear river and the yuba river many forest service roads and 4wd trails

[Hum Wee JR]

Car Lake

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[Hum Wee JR]

Car lake campground

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[Hum Wee JR]

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The creek from Feely Lake feeding Car Lake. Bring your water proof shoes, to get to feely lake you get to cross this

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Feely Lake

[Hum Wee JR]

I climbed up the ridge above Car and Feely Lakes Took thease pics along the way

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Some plant life

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Some ones fire circle over looking Feely Lake

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A video of the view at the top of the ridge

[Hum Wee JR]

This trip it rained off and on the whole time I was there. The fog would come and go, At one point it was so thick I could only see about 5 feet. made for an interesting hike in a place I had never been. My phone battery died fairly early on this hike so i did not photo graph all the lakes this time

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The trail in. Foot traffic only

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An unnamed pond supossed to be full of bull head cat fish

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The marsh filling the pond. Look in the back ground and you will see snow. It has been snowing at night then melting in the day for last week.

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Island Lake

[Hum Wee JR]

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Long Lake

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One off the islands on long lake

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Some more flowers

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Tease flowers will turn into spiked berries this summer

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A tree that has had a hard life. It is always windy up there

[Hum Wee JR]

I just got a new dash camera and took some videos of some of the wheeling to get to thease places but for some reason it didn't recoard. Oh well next time

[OrangeXJ]

Very nice! That's the only thing I miss about not living in Cali (I lived in Cali for 16 years) is places like that with in a hour or two drive from where I lived.