Pointers for houseboating Trinity - HOOK ME UP

(dubs_ucla) · (dubs_ucla) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 08-16-2007, 9:55 AM

Headed out to Trinity this weekend - looking for pointers as I have spent time on Shasta and not at Trinity. Any recommendations help.

Not to mention I have always been the guest and am likely the one in charge now... ...uh oh!!!

mendo247 08-16-2007, 10:06 AM

What marina are you getting your houseboat from?

walt 08-16-2007, 12:31 PM

Strobe lights are illegal to have on the houseboat but disco balls are ok.

This is true !

(dubs_ucla) · (dubs_ucla) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 08-16-2007, 1:36 PM

trinity alps

(26lacefield) · (26lacefield) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 08-16-2007, 1:45 PM

Trinity is a sick lake. i plan on going there every summer for a week boarding trip. i've never done a houseboat up there. only the cabins.

(l1spoogy) · (l1spoogy) **Join Date: Jun 2004** 08-16-2007, 2:26 PM

Why are strobe lights illegal?

walt 08-16-2007, 2:37 PM

Because a strobe is recognized as a distress signal.

mendo247 08-16-2007, 3:11 PM

Well then you wont have to go very far at all for the best riding spots..

Are you very familiar with the lake? Have you been before?

Its pretty wide open even though its low so manuerving it around wont be a problem.. Just keep your eyes out for stumps when cruising around and espically when pulling up to shore..

(dubs_ucla) · (dubs_ucla) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 08-16-2007, 3:29 PM

never been before. only shasta previously.

i have looked at a lot of maps of the lake.

what do you mean i don't have to go to far for good riding?

i was looking at parking the boat across from the point jutting out on the left side of the main arm...

mendo247 08-16-2007, 3:35 PM

If you have a map id head up buckeye cove.. If you leave the marina and head north along the shorline its the first cove you can head into(on the left).. Past the 5mph bouys is really nice.. that whole half of the lake is good riding.. Heading up the main arm would be a mistake IMO...

(dubs_ucla) · (dubs_ucla) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 08-16-2007, 4:36 PM

do you recommend parking on the NW side so you don't get too much afternoon sun?

mendo247 08-16-2007, 8:16 PM

You know for 4th we parked on the south side and it wasnt bad at all! It Rarely gets blazing hot up there..

(lmtwa) · (lmtwa) **Join Date: May 2001** 08-17-2007, 4:47 PM

I second the Trinity Alps - back in (??) around 1987 we camped and (skied then) on trinity and one night went to an AWEsome restaurant way in the mountains that you had to get special reservations for on a handheld radio days in advance and then drive though the woods for 10 miles (combination gate into a forest preserve over stream beds etc. ) It was beautiful. Let me know if you find it - it was a log cabin in the middle of nowhere that looked just like the Alps.

There was a convenience store on Trinity that made the reservations.