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SyncroHead
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 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:48 am Post subject: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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We're excited to announce Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25, scheduled this summer for September 14-21. This event will be the 24th Safari adventure since beginning in 1998.
Mammoth '25 will be held around Mammoth Lakes, CA on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, a spectacularly scenic area.
This event will be limited to only 12 Syncros.
Registration will be open Sunday May 18th at 6:00PM Pacific Time
Registration will be on a first-come-first-served basis and can fill up very fast, so watch your calendar if you'd like to participate. Please don't attempt to register before this time.
See more info at:
https://www.syncrosafari.org/mammoth-25---overview.html
Jim Davis
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jjdeluxe
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Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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Excellent! right in my backyard... Hard to pass up an event like this. I'll reach out once reg opens.
-- mammoth syncro
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SyncroHead
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 11:05 am Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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Excellent! right in my backyard... Hard to pass up an event like this. I'll reach out once reg opens.
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Wow! That is in your backyard. Do you know 4x4 trails in the area?
Registration will be open Sunday May 18th at 6:00PM Pacific Time
Jim Davis
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SyncroHead
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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Reminder...
Registration will be open Sunday May 18th at 6:00PM Pacific Time
Registration will be on a first-come-first-served basis and can fill up very fast, so watch your calendar if you'd like to participate. Please don't attempt to register before this time.
This event will be limited to only 12 Syncros.
Gonna be great!
Jim
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jjdeluxe
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Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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| jjdeluxe wrote: |
Excellent! right in my backyard... Hard to pass up an event like this. I'll reach out once reg opens.
-- mammoth syncro |
Wow! That is in your backyard. Do you know 4x4 trails in the area?
Registration will be open Sunday May 18th at 6:00PM Pacific Time
Jim Davis |
Lots of 4x4 ideas. As you might imagine, there is literally an endless number options. Happy to brainstorm with you. I'll PM you with my contact info. There's gnarly routes, there's big elevation gain routes, there's a thousand miles of easy dirt roading.
This place is a cool daytrip : "Log Cabin Mine" just outside of Lee Vining (base of Tioga Pass Road, which leads into Yosemite). - probably an hour of good elevation gain on a modest jeep road, but definitely 4x4 at times, I think our Syncros should be able to make it (couple of steep, sorta washed out spots where granny gear will be a must). I've been there in my FJ.
https://raisethestakeseditions.com/log-cabin-gold-mine/
Cool stuff around Mono Lake, like wild horses, crazy geological features, lumber mills from the 1900's...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/wild-horse-mammoth-lakes-mono-17503175.php
This is Fall Colors season, and should gorgeous, so being near creeks and lakes to get the aspens (June Lake Loop/Silver Lake/Lundy Lake/Green Lake, and many others)
ttps://www.monocounty.org/things-to-do/fall-colors/
Again, a million options, but also check out Green Lake / Green Creek Rd area (Off of Hwy 395 just south of Bridgeport / north of the Bodie turnoff), lots of options.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oaAHBb6RSBLWspDM7
Killer hilltop camping spots where we could fit a dozen syncros totally off the beaten track near the south end of Dunderberg Meadow Rd.
Bodie, Masonic, Aurora mines are fun to explore.
A good spot to gather/camp on the first night is Glass Creek Campground, because it's right off Hwy 395 just north of Mammoth making it easy to find everyone when folks are showing up at different times. It's a forested primitive spot large enough for the group, with fire pits, and running creek. Oh, and it's free! Lot's of dirt roading right from there.
Another fun place to overnight is at Benton Hotsprings, kind of a treat with natural hot tubs at your doorstep, some may want to do that on the last night.
https://www.bentonhotsprings.us/
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SyncroHead
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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Thanks jjdeluxe!
I will call you one of these days to discus.
Registration opened at 6:00 last night and 9 registrants by 6:01.
We have just one spot available this morning.
Jim Davis
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jjdeluxe
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: Syncro Safari, Mammoth '25 - September 14th-21st |
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Yes! and Chidago Canyon is fun off road adventure while getting to many of our area's petroglyphs..
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