I really like the San Bernardino mountains for trail and dualsport riding. Lots of scenery, close to restaurants in Big Bear and other towns. There's camping and there's fishing as well. I went up there last Monday and rode a pretty good loop. While the weather was sweltering down on the flats, the temperatures were in the 70s and low 80s at elevation.
The trail in the video below, is known as "the tree trail", although it is actually an old through route that was abandoned by all 4 wheel traffic after fallen trees and rock slides blocked many spots on it over the decades. Also erosion has taken its toll, and brush continually creeps in, trying to erase the trail. Now motorcyclists are the only ones who keep a path beaten through from the top to the bottom. I was shooting video at the spot where you have to squeeze under the fallen tree, but my camera had been bumped on a branch and was pointing at the sky....so here is another stretch of that trail.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_r2kvak_M
The trail in the video below, is known as "the tree trail", although it is actually an old through route that was abandoned by all 4 wheel traffic after fallen trees and rock slides blocked many spots on it over the decades. Also erosion has taken its toll, and brush continually creeps in, trying to erase the trail. Now motorcyclists are the only ones who keep a path beaten through from the top to the bottom. I was shooting video at the spot where you have to squeeze under the fallen tree, but my camera had been bumped on a branch and was pointing at the sky....so here is another stretch of that trail.
