We’re back from routing Wanderlust. It’s going to be spectacular!
Our first day will feature 32 miles of Butte County’s rolling hills and countryside as we approach the Sierra Nevada foothills.
We will enjoy an afternoon and evening of entertainment at Chaffin Family Orchards. Chaffin is a farm of immense history where you will discover groves of rare heirloom citrus and Ark of Taste stone fruits from an era when fruit was bred for taste, not food miles. Turn of the century olive groves and thick trunks of old fashioned fruit trees grow in concert with nature.
The evening program includes performances by MaMuse, the Railflowers, and Evin Wolverton.
Riders will have the opportunity to visit award-winning Quilici vineyards (pictured above), a small boutique winery bottling just 1,000 cases-a-year. They specialize in handcrafted, estate wines grown, produced and cellared at their family home. Riders will also enjoy a delicious, locally-grown meal provided by Roots Catering.
On day 2, riders will Wake up to a tasty breakfast grown on the land they slept on and make their way through the beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills. Riders will have the opportunity to visit Lodestar, local olive oil producer, where the Johansson Family has been carrying on the 100-year history of olive production in Oroville since 1993. Soil, climate, and skillful knowledge have produced world class olives at Lodestar Farms, but it’s passion that creates the world-class olive oil.
The tour will continue winding down country roads through small-town Bangor and past Oregon House to set up camp at Bullards Bar Lake.
A brunch stop along the way, at cozy Lake Francis (pictured above), offers riders refreshment before riding over Bullards Bar’s impressive dam and making the last ascent into camp. You can look forward to a tasty twist on the American hamburger dinner made with grass-fed, free-range Chaffin-raised beef.
Bullards Bar spillway
On day 3, riders will wake up to a pastry breakfast with tea and coffee amid huge pines and enjoy a brief workshop on safe cycle riding before their lovely morning descent through the Tahoe National Forest. Oregon creek and a covered bridge a century and a half old await at the bottom of the hill. Dropping into the Bridgeport river canyon, riders can enjoy a dip in the Yuba before climbing forested Pleasant Valley Road into Grass Valley.
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