Slick Rock is three hours East of Sacramento, California, or about 2.5 hours south of Reno, Nevada. Most people approach the trail from the California side.

To get there, drive up Highway 4 past Bear Valley to Lake Alpine. Turn south off the highway at the west end of Lake Alpine. There are signs for Lake Alpine Campground. The Trail starts off from the Campground below Lake Alpine. Stay to the right as you approach the lake. The trail head is about three quarters of a mile from highway 4. You'll see the well-traveled trail.

The trail follows the pristine Silver Creek. The creek flows over solid granite in some areas. Slick Rock has two major water crossings one about 10" deep and the other via a one lane bridge over Duck Creek. The trail is only about 3 miles long and can be run non-stop in less than two hours if you want to whiz through.

I would like to go around the first weekend in October.

Does this interest anyone?

 

I am interested, I have wanted to go for a while. I will have to check into when I can go but definitely am interested

 

I am looking at the weekend of 10/1 or 10/8 so if one is better than another let us all know.

 

You may find more people to go over at the naxja forums as well.

 

OK the date has been set at 10/8. There are three campgrounds located around Lake Alpine and one Silvertip located about one mile west of the lake on highway 4 and they are on a first come bases.

 

I was thinking just day trip since its such a short trail unless planning to run another trail the next day. Either way, I will put it on my calendar and update you for sure whether I will be able to go or not

 

if camping, it may be worth it to run slick rock one day, and then something like strawberry, DV, or Niagara that same day and/or Sunday.

Looking at a trail map, if camping, maybe run slick rock and deer valley Saturday, camp at blue lakes, run strawberry and home on Sunday

 

Thaks for the info man. Yeah I have not been up there for quite some time and dont really know the area. Saw some writups on the Deer Valley and it does look interesting.

 

no problem. let me know what you decide (camp and run other trails, or just slickrock) and I will plan to be there. I am fine with either, but if you want to just run slickrock im going to day trip it.

 

What I would like to do is run Slickrock down from hwy4 then turn around and run it again back to hwy 4.

This would allow people, as Hooper suggested, to come up for the day and just run the trail top to bottom but if someone wanted to stay the night they could run the trail back up too.

The Slickrock trail is rated 5 down and 6 back up so it will give us a little more of a challenge (yeah, OK, not much) traveling it back up.

Then Sunday run the Deer Valley trail from hwy 4 to hwy 88 and go home from there. Someone could even come up for Sunday and run this with us as a day trip too.

There should be something here for everyone.

I am going to run it with 235/75/15's so I should have a blast trying to get through.

 

Sounds like fun, a little far for me so I'll have to see how i feel when the 8th comes around.

 

so you planning to camp at the lake alpine campgrounds and then head to DV and out in the morning? That works for me, have you been to the campground before? Im wondering if its actually on/really near the lake or not. im never sure with these

 

I did camp there 7 years ago and if i do remember you are near the water but not camping on the shore but I got there late Friday so maybe all I remember is camping near the lake but there are camp spots on the shore too. That was no help at all. We will see.

 

well, I was mostly just asking for walking distance, which you answered

 

Oh! Well then, I would say yes it is within walking distance.