Holcomb Valley near Big Bear

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  • Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024

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  • @patrickwest6876
    @patrickwest6876 2 года назад +2

    Very well done! I was in the Air Force in Victorville in the Mojave Desert and when I saw Holcomb Valley I thought it was so neat, quiet, and peaceful!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  Год назад

      How funny, we probably rubbed elbows somewhere in the Victor Valley in the '80s or early '90s. I worked all over the VV on computers and always saw those F-4s flying around. Yup, Big Bear was a "cool" place go from the desert.

    • @patrickwest6876
      @patrickwest6876 Год назад +1

      @@BackRoadsWest1 That's great! I hope you have a lot more great adventures in the future!

    • @thrummer1953
      @thrummer1953 Год назад

      George AFB, was sadly abandoned.

  • @garretvaughn7936
    @garretvaughn7936 4 года назад +9

    I very much appreciate how you give clear directions, linking each photo to its precise location on the map or Google Earth. Not enough emphasis is placed on using maps these days, and I am very grateful to you for all the time and preparation you put into each video. Well done!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад +2

      Thank you for your comments. Yes, I've watched way too many videos that leave me wondering, where is this place?

    • @Designer_TopG
      @Designer_TopG 2 года назад

      @@BackRoadsWest1
      We need to get a bunch of people and build a town up there. There's not much up there now. We need to get cracking.

  • @aeccurtiswlambert7866
    @aeccurtiswlambert7866 4 года назад +10

    Lived in Hesperia for 19 years and frequently, like weekly, were up in the Big Bear Mountains from Big Bear to Crestline. Your videos bring back many memories.

  • @brianmccarthy5557
    @brianmccarthy5557 2 года назад +1

    The LA Area Boy Scout Ranch, where I spent some time in summer camps and in training sessions at other times of the year is located on the edge of the Holcomb Valley. We often wandered about it as a young teenager. Thanks.

  • @gabrielfreeman518
    @gabrielfreeman518 2 года назад +2

    I did this trail last year for my birthday with my wife in my jeep and my friend in his truck. Seeing these sites brings back happy memories 😎 thanks for everything you guys do! Also, if anyone plans on doing these trails in winter be aware of the snow and ice pack on these back roads!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 года назад +1

      You're welcome and thanks for your comment!

    • @Designer_TopG
      @Designer_TopG 2 года назад

      @@BackRoadsWest1
      We need to get up there. Its amazing how much land

  • @allans7281
    @allans7281 2 года назад +1

    I’ll be riding my Honda 250 rally adventure bike on this. Your videos are so professional and just so enjoyable to watch. Thanks for bringing us adventure. A stroll into California’s past is magical

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 года назад

      You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting!

  • @teejay3272
    @teejay3272 4 года назад +4

    Fawnskin local here. Nice job with this. And my own personal PSA?
    NO litter. NO fires. Thanks and we now continue with your regularly scheduled programming.

    • @Mrthekatt
      @Mrthekatt 2 года назад

      Lots of private properties around too, some friendly some uh-oh!!

  • @redwhiteblue7831
    @redwhiteblue7831 4 года назад +7

    I made a video on a camping trip here with family on 4th of July weekend. We happened to camp across from the Hangman's Tree. I've been a member of "The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus" since spring of '05
    Your video is extremely informative with all the information needed. Great video. Thank you. Billy Holcomb discovered the gold by tracking a bear he shot and stumbled across gold... it was the start of the boom of the gold rush in Holcomb Valley.

    • @jerroldshelton9367
      @jerroldshelton9367 3 года назад +1

      I don't know that Holcomb "stumbled" across gold. I suspect that when he tracked the bear into the valley, and saw what he saw there, he might have known the connection that quartzite rock and gold have, and seeing some quartzite rock, figured there'd be gold around there, somewhere.
      That might not be Billy Holcomb's story. Maybe he just happened to look down at a rock with a bit of gold in it and had no prior knowledge of the connection between quartzite rock and gold.
      I'm pretty sure it's Edwardio Luna's, though. He's the guy that Luna Mountain on the USGS Butler Peak, CA map is named for. He tried mining there in that area, not because he was wandering around the desert slope of the mountains and stumbled on to gold, but because he knew about the connection between quartzite rock and gold. And there was plenty of quartzite around his old mine and mining cabin.
      I know, because my family owned what once was one of Luna's mining claims, from about 1972 to 2020.
      The shaft outside the cabin had long since caved in, but the old miner's cabin was still habitable at over 100 years old, and had a lot of cool old stuff in it and around it.

    • @Designer_TopG
      @Designer_TopG 2 года назад

      @@jerroldshelton9367
      We need to get up there and get more people up there. Build a town up there. These days we can attract tourists and the money from that from b and b will build the place.

  • @myexportsworldwide6534
    @myexportsworldwide6534 2 года назад +1

    The most informative Trail video i ever seen, way better that Alltrails & Trailsoffroad videos.. You rock man..

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 года назад

      Thanks a bunch for the kind comments! It puts a smile on my face.

  • @ryoizard
    @ryoizard 4 года назад +2

    As usual, high quality guide and answered everything before readers wanted to ask.

  • @miguelmachado5236
    @miguelmachado5236 2 месяца назад

    All your videos are very well put together and informative. Thank you!!!!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 месяца назад

      You're welcome! Thanks for commenting.

  • @lowelllarsen5947
    @lowelllarsen5947 4 года назад +2

    My 2nd home since 1983 is in Big Bear City Nicely done video

  • @toshibavoodoo
    @toshibavoodoo 4 года назад +11

    CRAP! How do I not know about Big Bear visiting Center! I love Big Bear!

    • @curtisnjodyderonde4814
      @curtisnjodyderonde4814 4 года назад +1

      They have info building in the village

    • @desratlinda8639
      @desratlinda8639 4 года назад

      lol

    • @senderoverland
      @senderoverland 3 года назад

      Its because its on the opposite side of the slopes! Im in bear almost every weekend during snow season and i didnt know about these trails and the discovery center until recently

  • @ralphietheshoes2175
    @ralphietheshoes2175 4 года назад +3

    Thank you so much for all your videos.. I love what your doing and wish I was there to explore with you. Ive watch almost all your videos and I'm definitely inspired to do the same... At one point of time I was documenting the remains of the US 91/ arrowhead trail...through Nevada and parts of Utah but my documentation was poor... But there is so many mysteries on that road.. many traces of old settlements and small towns almost wiped off history.

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      You're welcome and thank you for your comment. I assume you've seen our videos on Route 66 in So Cal? We live in St. George Utah, so I'm very familiar with "Old 91". Someday I'd like to do a video tour from the Utah border near Mesquite, thru St. George and end where it almost touches Zion NP. There's traces of the old road everywhere, including a fully in-tact tunnel.

  • @almeggs3247
    @almeggs3247 4 года назад +1

    Very nicely done. Thanks!

  • @Mrthekatt
    @Mrthekatt 2 года назад

    Yes!! Welcome to the beautiful sights,, PLEASE! Respect the many private properties in the area stay safe and keep litter in its place. Plan your restroom stop at the Holcomb valley campground take plenty of water and check your tire condition. You will love your weekend!

  • @williamschoemann4209
    @williamschoemann4209 3 года назад +2

    I enjoyed that. The dirt roads appear to have been improved since I was there fifty years ago. Where in the world did they come up with all those fences?

  • @almeggs3247
    @almeggs3247 4 года назад +1

    I live in Crestline and this is the first time I’ve learned about the exciting past here!

  • @curtisnjodyderonde4814
    @curtisnjodyderonde4814 4 года назад +6

    Been there few times it’s a nice old area, lived in big bear 7 years city of sugarloaf

    • @rogermolina1244
      @rogermolina1244 3 года назад

      The Baldwin mine site is a
      favorite place me and my wife to hangout at, and we too live in Sugarloaf 🙂.

  • @concerned1313
    @concerned1313 4 года назад +7

    FYI, the Alhambra Foundry Company is still in business in Alhambra, CA. I believe they are the only steel mill left west of the Mississippi now and have been since the 1970s or 1980s. They started right after WWI. I mentioned this because of the steel bolts at 19:51 that are shown as a closeup. Take care and thanks for the video!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад +2

      Excellent catch! I was thinking of that company as I watched the final edit before posting, so you've answered my question. That lizard must have been keeping watch on those old bolts. By the way, California Steel, located next to the site of the Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana (next to the Fontana Speedway) has been in business for quite some time. It was started after Kaiser closed in the 1980s. Great history on Alhambra Foundry! I love to hear success stories likethat.

    • @concerned1313
      @concerned1313 4 года назад +1

      @@BackRoadsWest1 OK, let me refrase it. I applied at Alhambra Steel around 1985, 86, or 87 and at the time, they were the only steel plant going west of the Mississippi. Kaiser in Fontana had shutdown and then started up again. There was no one else for a brief time like 5 or 10 years. Alhambra Steel is still in business because they do manhole covers and that stuff primarily and that is they bread and butter or nitch. No one else did back then. I don't know now, but they still do the manhole covers.

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад +1

      @@concerned1313 Thanks for the follow up! Makes sense that Alhambra stayed operating with their specialty in manhole covers. Ironically, wherever I go in USA & Europe, I try to photograph the manhole covers as many of them, especially in Europe, shows the city/place name very decoratively. I wonder if Alhambra does that. I've known 2 people that worked for Calif Steal and I think I remember them saying they closed down here and there for various reasons.

    • @concerned1313
      @concerned1313 4 года назад

      @@BackRoadsWest1 They bragged that they were all over the West when I was talking to them on that interview. We went around for a couple of hours going over everything.

    • @Designer_TopG
      @Designer_TopG 2 года назад

      @@BackRoadsWest1
      I was just in Karlsruhe Germany
      And yes they say Karlsruhe metalwork or similar yes. ....I saw others too. Water. They are always made locally. How interesting.

  • @PaulY2833
    @PaulY2833 3 года назад

    Thank you for making this beautiful and informative video. I will use this video as my guide and do my very first off road trip to Gold Fever trail.

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for commenting! It's reading comments like yours that makes this labor of love worth while!!

  • @stabbincabbincowbboy3770
    @stabbincabbincowbboy3770 4 года назад +2

    Awsum... I Got To Get Up There Must Be A Lease One Tiny Gold Nugget Left Up There Sum Where In That Valley..
    👍🏻🤠🇺🇸

    • @jerroldshelton9367
      @jerroldshelton9367 3 года назад +1

      I don't know about nuggets, but I've panned flakes out of Holcomb Creek. ;)

    • @stabbincabbincowbboy3770
      @stabbincabbincowbboy3770 3 года назад

      @@jerroldshelton9367 Awsum I Got to Get Out There Sum Day.. But, Now It’s Big Bear Lake Boating Season and That’s My EveryWeekend Pastime...HeeHawww🤠 See You in Holcomb Sum Time Stay Safe

  • @richardjamet1774
    @richardjamet1774 4 года назад +1

    Great video thanks for sharing👍

  • @waynefitzer4216
    @waynefitzer4216 4 года назад

    Good job, thank you. I miss my youth and our CJ-5 Jeep.

  • @pauline3735
    @pauline3735 4 года назад +1

    Great video!👍🏼👏🏼 Very enjoyable and interesting.

  • @corydwyer377
    @corydwyer377 2 года назад

    I really enjoyed this. Thank you

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 года назад

      You're welcome and thanks for commenting.

  • @fortunateadventures3664
    @fortunateadventures3664 4 года назад +2

    Never been there,looks beautiful,and I’m a Cali girl 👧🚐🌳🍃

    • @jerroldshelton9367
      @jerroldshelton9367 3 года назад +1

      If you're a So Cal girl, it might be worth a trip up there to check out. It's a nice place to be on a summer night with a billion stars in the sky and it's historical, and pretty darn scenic in the daytime, too.

  • @lakayken8
    @lakayken8 2 года назад

    Im glad i watched ur video. It gives idea where the exact route from start to end. Ive been planning to go to that route for a while now but not sure hows the road looks like too. Nice video and history

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  2 года назад

      Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for commenting.

  • @epoe74
    @epoe74 4 года назад

    Thank you for these, they are great!!!

  • @rconger24
    @rconger24 4 года назад

    We went here as Boy Scouts. Circa 1974-1979, "Holcomb Valley Scout Camp." But where is the camp with respect to places in this video?
    10:04 And here were the red snow plant's I remember from early June !

  • @jayperry491
    @jayperry491 4 года назад +1

    Well done

  • @luperamos7307
    @luperamos7307 9 месяцев назад

    Can you take Polique Canyon Rd in a normal sedan? Or only in a high clearance off-road vehicle?

  • @jerroldshelton9367
    @jerroldshelton9367 3 года назад +1

    Belleville, the town that used to be in Holcomb Valley, supposedly missed out on becoming the County Seat of San Bernardino County by just a few votes.
    It's hard to imagine how different it might be if the vote on the County Seat had been different.

  • @johnkarlson8692
    @johnkarlson8692 4 года назад

    Ur stuff is cool! Be safe, stay healthy.

  • @ScottReiboldt
    @ScottReiboldt 3 года назад

    Thank you,

  • @joemomma707
    @joemomma707 4 года назад +2

    Love your channel! Do you know of any Baja type trails in SoCal? I drive a 2019 raptor and like to do fast paced trails. I found a random one today by cleghorn. But I honestly don’t know of any other ones nearby. Thanks!!!

    • @pabloescobar1287
      @pabloescobar1287 4 года назад +1

      Try Mojave’s road. Kinda in the middle of nowhere, but I have a prerunner tacoma and I maxed out at 80 but got too scared 😂

  • @cyberhard
    @cyberhard 4 года назад +3

    Can a 2WD vehicle (sedan) be used to drive the route?

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад +1

      Most likely. I'd check w/Discovery Center if open.

    • @cyberhard
      @cyberhard 4 года назад

      @@BackRoadsWest1 Thanks for the reply.

    • @cyberhard
      @cyberhard 4 года назад

      I drove part of the route on 7/26/20 in a sedan. I say part of the route because I started at W North Shore and Van Dusen Canyon. I then took 3N16 for the rest of the route. I had no issues. There are parts of the route that one does need to be mindful of due to vehicle ground clearance.

  • @supremepartydude
    @supremepartydude 4 года назад

    Somebody needs to make a video on how to an address in Big Bear Lake and surrounding area. I thought it was quite insane but what do I know. I'm not a local. I'm from Down The Hill!

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      How to address in Big Bear Lake? I don't understand.

  • @toshibavoodoo
    @toshibavoodoo 4 года назад +1

    Love music. Sundance and Butch Cassidy?

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      Nope. Scott Joplin is the composer on most.

  • @jeffolmstead9589
    @jeffolmstead9589 Год назад

    At 7:29 that’s Sanddune Wallflower
    (Erysimum capitatum) all though good guess with the golden Yarrow

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  Год назад

      Thanks for the clarification. Flower (and plant) identification is tricky!

  • @danna140
    @danna140 4 года назад +2

    Is 4wd needed while on this trail ?

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад +1

      Read the details in our blog www.backroadswest.com/blog/holcomb-valley-near-big-bear/

  • @westlos13
    @westlos13 4 года назад

    I have a question ? Do you air down your tires??? On this Trail On any dirt road trail that you do??

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      No, but read the details in our blog www.backroadswest.com/blog/holcomb-valley-near-big-bear/

  • @TobyCostaRica
    @TobyCostaRica 4 года назад +3

    Backroads West = The off road Huell Howser

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      Thank you! I have a new nickname!! My PBS Huell Howser influence has obviously shown thru.

    • @TobyCostaRica
      @TobyCostaRica 4 года назад

      BackRoadsWest1 you have some big shoes to fill! Keep up the great work.

    • @teejay3272
      @teejay3272 4 года назад +1

      Yes! Huell did a great segment on Holcomb.

  • @akicitaa.8233
    @akicitaa.8233 4 года назад +3

    (Small point, but when a rope is used in execution, the term is "hanged", not "hung")

    • @wesleyhay3881
      @wesleyhay3881 4 года назад +1

      Well someone could be 'hung out to dry'! :)

    • @StinkFingerr
      @StinkFingerr 4 года назад

      Akicita A, Correctomundo.

    • @rconger24
      @rconger24 4 года назад

      That's what my english teacher said.

  • @larrypolk2378
    @larrypolk2378 4 года назад

    What site did you use for your aerial shots?

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      It says it in the lower-right: Google Earth

  • @desratlinda8639
    @desratlinda8639 4 года назад

    (Can you go here with a regular car??)

    • @BackRoadsWest1
      @BackRoadsWest1  4 года назад

      Yes. But I would check with the Big Bear Discovery Center on the North Shore in case something has happened with the road.

  • @frankmacleod2565
    @frankmacleod2565 3 года назад

    Couple things: Holcomb is pronounced "hole-cum", not hole-comb. Placer mining, that is pronounced "plasser" not "place-er". Fantastic video, thanks very much.