Yuba River Trail__Another Viewpoint Traditional Cache

Another Hide to get geocachers out onto the South Yuba Trail.    

Some cool thistles along the way.

Cache  is hidden low on outer edge of a curve, within a step or two of the trail.

Trail Access points for day trips

1. Town of washington then to Trail head, parking spot: N 39 21.326 w 120 48.510

2. Relief hill, just below North Bloomield, trailhead, parking spot for top of Missouri Bar trail: N 39 21.580 w 120 53.570

3. Humbug Trailhead(in Malakoff Diggins park): N 39 21.924 w 120 55.394

4. Edwards crossing South Yuba trailhead: N 39° 20.362 w 120° 58.259  Use this to go upriver.

5. Edwards Crossing: N 39 19.801 w 120 58.996  Use this to go downriver.

6. Purdon Crossing: N 39 19.635 w 121 2.882 Use this to go upriver

7. To go from Purdon crossing to highway 49 crossing there is no trail.  You can hike/wade it in the summer after the water level has gone down, but it can take 8 hours.  I put some high terrain caches down there in 2016, but then the heavy rains came and I wasn’t able to check them so I archived them.  However, from Highway 49 crossing you can take either Hoyts trail or East Independence trail to make it to miners tunnel.

8. There are a couple other spots that I haven’t tried yet.  They include

   1. Trail above The overlooked overlook (GC6H4VH), although I think the Edwards crossing trailhead is just as close.

   2. Trail above Yuba River Trail--Beach Spot  (GC8AJ77), comes from Round Mountain

   3. Trail above Missouri Bar Trail, from Scotts Flat and Highway 20 side, although I’ve run into numerous deadends trying to find the trail down.  It would be great to find this shortcut to this part of the river.

Camping spots-- The best overnight camping spots are near the trail crossings, Humbug trail, Missouri Bar trail, Washington trailhead, and Edwards crossing.  Between these locations, often the trail climbs up to the ridge above the river and is half a mile down steep hills away from the river.

If you want to camp, you probably want a mid hike camping spot, I’ll list 2.They are basically flat level places near the river with fire pits from previous campers. There are multiple camping spots near each of these locations

1. Near the bottom of the Humbug trail, the South Yuba primitive camp.N 39° 20.168 w 120° 55.631

2.  Near the bottom of the Missouri Bar trail N 39° 20.711 W 120° 52.873