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What about the First People's point of view?Good on ya. I'll give you both points .... but from a growers view ....
About 15m into our fun, I'm blasting through the dirt roads and I see headlights in the distance. So I stopped quickly, turned off my lights and backed up between some tall bushes.
Classic. The stuff my trail cams catch is nucking futs. So many naked dudes hiking. Coons/squirrels/deer procreating.
that whole river area has a sort of meth/weedfarm/get murdered or anally raped by an old man vibeIn Fresno, the San Joaquin river runs along the north side of town. On the north side of the river there is a private drive that leads to the bottom. The river bed / valley is super wide, probably 1/4 of a mile or more, although the actual flowing river part is significantly less wide. The area is divided up into a maze of dirt roads and fishing ponds. Some of them connect to the river and others do not.
One night, in the early 2000's, I was in town and took my gf down there on a full moon night. We were in my TRD Tacoma and I was ripping through the dirt maze like a lunatic around midnight. Kicked up huge clouds of dust everywhere. We were young and bored, and I wanted to find a spot to park and canoodle in the bed.
The headlights headed right for us. Awe fook, I thought for sure it was the local sheriff and I was going to be arrested for tresspassing. Not many people knew about this access point at the time. As the truck got closer, i could tell is wasn't a sheriff, but he definitely saw us sitting in the dark. As he pulled up to us, I fired up the truck again and pulled out of the narrow dirt road we were both on. He was facing the opposite way. The road was so narrow, I squeezed over against the bushes to let him pass.
But he had his window down, arm out, flagging me down. I could see it was an older farmer looking dude.
"What are you doing down here?!" he shouted. I told him the river was public domain (it wasn't). He said he was calling the sheriffs and that he had a gun. He asked if the growing operation was mine and told me to stay put. Instinctively, I yelled out "fvvk you!" without hesitation and floored it, leaving him in a huge dust cloud. He had no way to easily flip a u-turn and I was literally doing 40-50mph on the dirt road to get out there, with my lights off! My gf was like 'holy sh!t this is crazy!' and I just told her to hang on tight.
We got out there. A few days later, I found out through the grapevine the sheriffs had discovered a large grow operation down there, just a few days prior. And they were watching the place closely trying to catch the growers in the act. The operation was located on a difficult to access part of the river, right where we were offroading.
Haha hey now. Huge development is going on north side of Fresno right now. 1000's of new and expensive homes, new beautiful communities, new schools, new hospital, and new shopping areas and winery. On the river area, they have huge plans to put new paved roads down there and nice access points. They plan to turn the whole place into one big beautiful park. Should help alleviate some of the meth vibe.
I was surprised to see people where that cam was except trespassing during hunting season. There's a creepy cave at the canyon entrance and I was hoping to get a mtn lion.
Group meetup?
At Eunice's place?
That's a lot of pool noodles
I always thought Lake County would be a great place for a Deliverance reboot, but sounds like this place takes the cake
On the bright side, at least she'll know it's not something you'd lie about.
I thought it was pretty smart, cover the PVC with those green things. But it seems expensive and those cheap standard rubber irrigation hoses are difficult to see. There's one up there that runs forever to where there's actually water and an old tarp covering tons of starter kits etc. Looks like they ditched it years ago, maybe during the drought.That's a lot of pool noodles
I always thought Lake County would be a great place for a Deliverance reboot, but sounds like this place takes the cake
