Yes.... I did go to Yuba this weekend! Labor day weekend... Actually, we arrived Sunday night at around 8PM set up camp, roasted hotdogs, had a little guitar session... Watched our neighbors TRY to make sexy poses with a christmas light string inside one of those plastice tubes plugged into a billion watt generator... Tough in and of itself to be sexy at Yuba, but add really drunk to that, and it isn't working! Although it was entertaining when they started jumping rope with it... The young ones were actually pretty successful with it!
We were very pleased to see a Ranger go around to ALL the campsites to tell people to go to bed at 11PM... Atleast no music after 11PM... It quieted down ON THE BEACH at 11PM for the first time ever! Also, they are giving somewhere around $300 tickets for anyone caught with a glass bottle on the beach... No glass beer bottles has been a rule for a while... Now they're serious about it... It is great to see after my nephew cut his foot badly enough to require stitches on a piece of glass on North Beach last year!
Therefore, we got a great night sleep and in the morning, the 7AM thermal didn't hit... ... hmmm... So back to sleep... But at 9AM it hit... We got some satisfactory rides until about 11:30AM... I was on the 7.4 Hot Sail W/3 CAMS! First time on 7+ in a long time... It was classic morning Yuba thermal (however a little late)... I don't know why the wind meter read what it did... Northeast or whatever... Because it was SOUTHEAST out of Gunnison... The Fayette wind as JD calls it...
We capped the day off with a 6 mile hike up around the south end of the Lake... Saw some huge whooping cranes below the dam... Came back and sat in the shade of the newly rigged "tarp sun shade" and dozed off into a 1 hour power nap before packing up to come home... Drank a couple ice cold O'doules! It was a pretty fun day...
A couple notes: Before I left I looked at how full Yuba is/was (44% on http://www.sevierriver.org)... I did the distance measure thing on the boat launch to the water on google earth (.04 miles)... That's from above right (xcomponent)
... Then I walked the boat launch with my GPS while at Yuba and measured .03 miles to the water. (hypotenuse) he he sorry... Point is, that means from above (as in google earth) today it'd be even less distance then .03... Therefore, at 44% full Yuba today is MORE full than in the picture that is currently on google earth... For those of you YUBATAKIANS... It'd been a while since I'd stayed on WEST beach... It is fun... And when the wind decides to blow WEST... Flat FLAT water for some REEALLY fun speed runs along West beach... I stayed on west cuz I thought it was going to be North?!?!
BTW I told the rangers there about how inaccurate the "Yuba Windtalker" meter is from the Ranger Station as what is really on the water and that it might get a better reading from the North/West Beach Fee Booth... He said he'd mention it in their meeting... Man, isn't this all just such vital information!
