As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
), Leaving San Jose tomorrow morning at 9 am. Stop in Vacaville to chew on Dan and Annes ears for an hour at MotoXotica, leave there and arrive at Stonyford area appx 1-3 pm setup camp and relax. Maybe a short afternoon putt-putt ride. Vehicle is an 89 Ford Clubwagon (brown/tan) with rail trailer and old TC450 in tow. Will look for you Dean although I don't know where the campsites that you mentioned are, I will find them. I know where Davis Flats is and thats about it ! 
See ya out there
I did get many of them looking at me as I slowly road by because that area needed a license plate.
Coffee;100860 said:Forgot about this thread
Had a great time! No one else showed up for a variety of reasons but that was ok. I got to ride where & when I wanted and took full advantage of that.
There were several places I've been wanting to see for quite a while. One of them was the long road leading out of the Davis flats area along the river. Actually 'road' is a bit generous, but no problem with the bike. It circles around the east side of the Snow Mountain wilderness, into the next county outside of Stonyford, and comes out onto the main paved road about 4 miles north of the town of Stonyford.
I went to the little store and was tempted to buy bug spray, but they had no bug spray & I must have lost my 'cash stash' from my backpack somewhere out on the trail while trying to read the map.
Then back to camp for food & fuel. Then up the hills almost to Upper Lake district, through some of the few remaining trails/roads with snow on them and downed trees, then circled around above Letts lake. I found a small residential area along the way where the rangers where having their Memorial day feast.
Then towards Indian Valley direction - checking out Cedar & Green flat campgrounds, and for once actually finding 'Wilson camp' which has no sign designating it's location.
I thought about taking trail 01 (Lovely Lady ridge) to the back side of the Frenzel wilderness and down to Little Stony... but I was getting a bit tired.
On the way back to camp I almost hit a couple of black tail deer. Everything in slow motion because I as so tired. Grabbed handful of front brake... no that was not the right thing to do. Twisted throttle... no that really was not the right thing to do. Brought in the clutch and used both brakes gently - that was it! All that happened in a split second.
Got back to camp and my legs were so rubbery I could no longer stand.
I decided to not ride on Monday because I was still too tired.
It was a great trip
PS: the streams were running & full! Many people were fishing, I don't know how well they were doing.
Special Kudos to Pivot Pegs, without them I would only be able to do 2/3 of those miles. Awesome product.
WoodsChick;100971 said:Sounds like a great time, Dean!
I really like that road that heads north out of Davis Flat. The river is so beautiful and scenic. I'd like to do some bike camping up there soon. I've never come out on the paved road, though. I've always taken it up and around Snow Mountain and ended up on M10 near Middle Creek.
I really like the area over by Cedar and Wilson Camps, too. It feels pretty remote over there, doesn't it? There are some really nice trails over there, too. They don't get ridden much because they're so far away from the "hub" of Stonyford.
+1 on the Pivot Pegz. I love mine! I think they were made for folks like me and you that have funky ankles
Did you take any photos?
WoodsChick
Grinning the whole way, nice to get away. 