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Total Escape TRIPPIN: Summer 2011

2011-07-25T11:35:26Z

	Summer Time Blackberries, Sunshine & Wild Waters California, Off the Beaten Path

In This Issue:

Summer Issue 2011

•	Back Roads Bliss

•	Sierra Map on Sale

•	Secluded Camping

•	Wild Waters Flow

•	Find more Total Escape

•	Recreation Stickers

Back Roads Bliss


You gotta know by now if you wanna see the really cool stuff, you gotta get away from the masses. Having a high clearance vehicle is often a big bonus for this outdoor task. Sometimes that bad gas mileage SUV proves itself well in the dusty conditions while you search for that one last turn off at the end of the road, away from the pavement. Go for it... with the whole weekend to spare. Take off your wrist watch and see where this route takes you. National Forests' rural roads are the paths that lead us to such wonderful remote areas. Thankfully we live in a country that has this kinda accessible beauty so readily available. Maybe some of the California State Parks are off-limits now, but we sure have a lot more public land to discover. Out for just a day drive or a 4-day camping weekend, be sure to bring the proper trail and road maps, so you can explore and recreate to the fullest extent. Just park and walk it. What a concept. Leave your rig at camp and explore on foot. With over a dozen National Forest in California, there are plenty choices. Between elevations, wildflowers, drastic terrain and small towns to discover, you won't be missing the big sale at the mall, guaranteed. grab a map and start your planning check out: newly renovated gear store



Sierra Nevada Map $8.88

Sierra Nevada mountain range is the granite spine of the west coast. This summer rivers are dangerous, most creeks are raging and the lakes are full. In June, the waterfalls in Yosemite were pouring. Gorgeous and amazing scenery awaits in the Sierra Nevada, with abundant snow melt and lush waterways. California waterfalls should last into Autumn this year.

In celebration of good snow in the highn country, we are offering an awesome little map of the Sierra Nevada for a sale price of $8.88

This topo map is colorful and makes a great reference piece, Covers areas from Tehachapi north to Lassen Volcanic Peak. David Imus located in Oregon, has been creating maps for 25 years. A perfect Sierra map for hanging on the wall, it measures 30" x 50". Normally it comes folded at 6" x 9", but you can special order one rolled in a tube, or laminated.

IMUS Sierra Map - sale priced $8.88

Secluded Camping (free)

If you are seeking a private camp site in California, then you will need to venture further north than popular Southern Cal. At this time of year, campgrounds in SoCal tend to be crowded campgrounds with locals, families, and RVers, as well as visiting tourists.

After examining population tables on the US Census site, it clearly explains the lack of 'seclusion' in the SoCal. Nearly 40 million people live in the state of California, and half them reside in the bottom third of the state (20k inside 7 counties). That leaves 20 million to populating the rest of the state from the Southern Sierra to NorCal . The moral to the story is: The further you drive north in California, the less people there will be surrounding you, especially out in the boonies.

Roughin in on back roads and staying outside of a developed campground is the best way to camp for free, with you own private site without neighbors nearby. But if you really must have an outhouse and picnic table at a camp, then chose the smaller, lesser known campgrounds. Plus if you pick a destination that isn't well known, you will be less likely to encounter crowds. Chances are if you've never even heard of the place, most everyone else hasn't either.

Wild Waters Flow

Higher than average river flows in California have swept people to their deaths this summer. Kern river has claimed several lives and nearly every river is at high level. The waterfalls are cranking in Yosemite National Park. In May rangers and personnel respond to 2 separate fatality incidents within the park, both of which involved water.

Day dreams of wading in shallow sun filled pools will come late this year, maybe before the snow starts. Please use extra caution around water this season. Wear a lifevest in rivers and lakes, it could save your life.

Total Escape ventured up to Plumas County for a week, exploring areas from Donner Pass to Downieville, and Susanville to La Porte. Muddy back roads and closed campgrounds found in mid July. Big snow berm on Upper La Porte Road. Lassen National Park was still closed from on the south entrance. Mt Shasta must be solid white still.

see 2011 North Sierra trip photos

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Camping Stickers

Outdoor stickers, here we go! DanaMite has a new vinyl cutting machine for making stickers, and she wants to make you a sticker. Show off your passion for your favorite recreation! Display it boldly for everyone to see, in glossy red, yellow, white, blue or metalic silver.

NEW SUMMER DECALS: iStickers
iBike, iCamp, iClimb, iHike, iRide, iSoak, iWheel

More colors and outdoor designs will soon follow. Sending out totalescape.com stickers free of charge with any map order - or just by request. Total Escape will be celebrating 15 years online this Autumn; all local, all outdoors, all for you California.

Email for stickers .......@totalescape.com

next issue: Autumn Fishing - cabins, creeks & aspen colors

Trippin Subscribers 2010 USDA MAPS from Total Escape

2011-04-07T12:25:11Z

Do you need maps for this summer? Well, this is the latest info for all concerned with outdoor recreation in California this year. The looming "government shutdown" that you might be hearing about in the news, will be affecting National Forests map availability.

Total Escape keeps a very limited number of Forest Service maps on hand, but we will quickly deplete our stock levels and NOT be able to reorder any USDA maps for the duration of this government closure (however long it may be).

My last wholesale map order could be placed FRIDAY April 8th - and I am emailing you today to find out what maps I should be stocking up on. Inyo, Sequoia & Sierra National Forest are all big sellers and I will do my best (with a limited budget) to order a few dozen of these titles, but if you wanna explore NorCal, Plumas or Lassen, or any Wilderness region and need a map this year, I suggest you place an order TODAY with Total Escape.

This government news is hitting us hard. Total Escape needs to plan as far in advance as summer map sales, so if you plan on ordering a NFS map this summer, there is a good chance it might not be available. I suggest place your map orders right now, if you really need that map.

ORDER Forest MAPS

ORDER Wilderness MAPS

ORDER PCT Hiking Guides

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Total Escape TRIPPIN: Spring 2011

2011-03-24T20:47:59Z

	Wet Spring Big Snows, Sunshine & Wildflowers California, Off the Beaten Path

In This Issue:

Spring Issue 2011

•	Vote for Total Escape

•	Spring Equinox Snow Storm

•	Offroad Maps on Clearance

•	Low Desert Wildflowers

•	Free Bumper Stickers

•	Connective Total Escape

Vote for Total Escape Today


Total Escape really wants you to find more vacation time in your life, and to use it wisely. Help us, help you. Please VOTE NOW for Total Escape on this Intuit grant (which ends this month), so we can continue to grow and expand this 14 year old, independent business. Technology is very expensive, all the way around - but sadly I am on 56k dial up internet (just to publish this newletter, due to weather damage). More mobility, more GPS maps and more connected. VOTE - and tell us why!

Spring Equinox Snow Storm

Last weekend for the Spring Equinox, a powerful storm hit California - and it's still coming in tonight. Snow is now record deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains, setting new depths in many ski resorts. SoCal has its share of the white stuff too. California will have snow and skiing into summer, thanks to the recent dumping.

cabin rentals

ski resorts

sledding spots

snowmobiles

June Lake

Kirkwood

Lake Tahoe

Mammoth

Truckee

Clearance Sale on Offroad Maps

4x4 MAPS & OHV TRAIL MAPS SoCal has plenty of terrain for dirt biking, off roading and back road exploring. Deserts and mountains are all fairly close to urban areas, so the riding is superb no matter what area you focus on. To make room for new map stock, we have a bunch of 2006 OHV maps on clearance. Sale priced to move at $3.95

Southern California off road areas include: Angeles Forests, Big Bear Trails, Mojave Deserts - Barstow and Jawbone Canyon. New editions on these titles could be out again, but don't hold your breath. The ever-popular Los Padres/ Hungry Valley Map is back in stock, but the supply is very limited. Printed in 2011, a new Jawbone 8th edition is due to arrive very soon.

OHV Map Set - now only $17.99

Need a local map by the big weekend?
Make sure to order Priority shipping.

Wildflowers Bloom in Low Desert

Anza Borrego Desert State Park has a decent bloom that is still ramping up. While a frost in January may have hindered some valley flora, hearty hillside plants are thriving. Ocotillo is in the washes, along with barrel cactus, lupine, dandelions, poppy. All that showing and more in Coyote Canyon, N of Borrego Springs CA

Low desert and washes around the Salton Sea, Chochella Valley and Palm Springs are showing greenery and wild flowers. Mecca Hills and Box Canyon have a decent showing of lupine and poppy right now. Joshua Tree National Park, at higher elevation blooms should peak in April (or May, if this snow continues).

2011 desert wildflower photos

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More Stickers for Your Rig

DanaMite has a new vinyl machine for making stickers, and she wants to make you a sticker. For real dude. Upcoming stickers, new for the summer -
iCamp, iClimb, iCrawl, iDrum, iHike, iRide, iSoak, iWheel, iYoga.

We are sending out totalescape.com stickers free of charge with any map order - or just by request. Total Escape will be celebrating 15 years online this Autumn, but we still need your support to spread the word on our bitchin' California web site. Slap one on your car window, garage window, truck bumper, ice chest, outdoor gear, or where ever you can make it stick. Got stickers in WHITE, RED, SILVER or BLUE. Who wants one?? Or two?

Email for stickers .......@totalescape.com

next issue: Summer Camping - creeks, lakes & river camps

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Winter 2010: Total Escape TRIPPIN NEWS

2010-12-31T14:20:05Z

	Happy New Year Cali all local, all outdoors California, Off the Beaten Path

In This Issue:

Winter Issue 2010

•	Guided Road Trips

•	Desert Destinations

•	Seasonal Newsletters

•	More Web Traffic

•	Maps Back in Stock

•	Get your Stickers

Upcoming Trips for 2011

Camping in boulders on desert back roads, relaxing at a riverside cabin with fresh fish for dinner, snowmobiling to a hot springs in the High Sierra, or snow skiing and hoteling it in Lake Tahoe. Want DanaMite leading more guided trips? Well then, you gotta get your suggestions in now and your deposits in soon. If you wanna travel on a budget, these trips are the best value for your weekend of adventure. Vote now for your preference on destinations, accommodations, price range and what type of road trip you would really enjoy.

VOTE on TRIPS: Total Escape Adventures

Quarterly, at most

Many of you have asked for these newsletters to be delivered monthly and DanaMite says "it just ain't gonna happen". Did you know that one single girl runs this whole Total Escape deal? Seriously. One newsletter per season is more like it, that four times per year. (Sorry for missing the Autumn edition, but I was off traveling and fishing near June Lake instead). Less newsletters mean I will have more to say, less frequently… and I can concentrate my real writing efforts on great content for bitchin places in Cali - getting you outside more often.

Outside for California

Maps Back in Stock

On your next 3 day weekend, don't stay home watching movies or cleaning the house. Take a road trip instead! Discover the California you never knew. We have all the maps, so you don't get lost. The USDA waterproof maps San Jacinto & San Gorgonio Wilderness are finally back in print. El Dorado's Rock Creek off road map also has a new edition. Due back for January, the awesome Baja Almanacs are selling like hot cakes - priced $1 below retail.

Baja Almanac Map

Lake Tahoe Recreation Map

Rock Creek OHV Map

San Gorgonio Wilderness

San Jacinto Wilderness

Shasta Trinity National Forest

Need a local map before your travel weekend?
Make sure to order Priority shipping a week ahead

Desert Destinations

You may have moved to California to get away from the big snow back East, so you are not too excited about visiting the snow ever again. California deserts take up a huge percentage of land, so why not do some back roads exploring: lava tubes, big boulders, anicent petroglyphs, wind caves, washes, ghost towns, old mines, pinnacle spires, joshuas, yuccas, pinyons and the vast Colorado Riverway.

Borrego Desert

California Ghost Towns

California Hot Springs

Death Valley National Park

Fossil Falls on Hwy 395

Joshua Tree National Park

Lake Mohave Desert Area

Mojave Preserve

Pioneertown, California

Trona Pinnacles

Vegas Hiking

Can you link to my biz?

Total Escape has been linking to California small town tourism, small business and recreation outfitters for over a decade. We push just as much traffic as the goverment California Board of Tourism site. Featuring outdoor recreation and small towns, focusing more on the remote back roads and less on the tourists traps.

Outdoor, adventure business in the tourism market of California, we should have already have you on Total Escape - cuz our niche web traffic is searching for your kinda business. Real web traffic, really! Independent lodges, recreation, tour guides, retreats, campgrounds, parks, museums, vistors centers.

DanaMite's been documenting the back roads of California for decades, focusing on outdoors and rural destinations. Total Escape has a variety of California advertising options available. Annual rates, and very reasonable. Check out reciprocal linking for the budget minded!

Advertise on California's local Total Escape

Still Sending out FREE Stickers

Camp diva DanaMite is mailing out bumper stickers, sending them out free of charge. Celebrate 14 years online with Total Escape - and help make it last another 14. Spread the word about on our bitchin' California web site. Slap one on your car window, garage window, truck bumper, ice chest, outdoor gear, or where ever you can make it stick. Got stickers in WHITE, RED, SILVER or BLUE. Who wants one?? Or two?

Email a request to .......@totalescape.com


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Summer 2010: Total Escape TRIPPIN NEWS

2010-08-29T19:09:48Z

	Summer Sizzles Local, inexpensive road trips California, Off the Beaten Path

In This Issue:

Summer Issue 2010

•	Free Bumper Stickers

•	Cool Sierra, High Elevation

•	Waterproof Maps on Sale

•	Listings, Links & Advertising

•	Labor Day Weekend Trips

•	Facebook finds Total Escape

Free Bumper Stickers

Camp diva DanaMite is producing her own bumper stickers now & sending them out free of charge. Celebrating 14 years online this Autumn, we still need your support to spread the word on our bitchin' California web site. Slap one on your car window, garage window, truck bumper, ice chest, outdoor gear, or where ever you can make it stick. Got stickers in WHITE, RED, SILVER or BLUE. Who wants one?? Or two?

Email a request to .......@totalescape.com

Submerse Yourself with the Cool Sierras

Wow, lookie here. Summer is almost over and you didn't get enough camping in this season. Luckily our warm weather in California will continue well into October, so you have plenty opportunities to get outside - this weekend, next weekend & next month. All lakes, reservoirs, creeks and rivers are full and flowing well this season. Thunderstorms in the higher elevations are quite common this year. Cool off and refresh with a dip in a Sierra swimming hole, waterfall or lake.

See our extensive lake list for California

Labor Day Weekend Camping

SEPT. 3-6, 2010: Scorching hot, late summer weather means your holiday destination should be coastal or mountains (meaning high elevation). This is the perfect time of year to explore those gorgeous alpine lakes, creeks and waterfalls in the High Sierra. We have put together a list of towns in the upper altitudes, so you can relax, breathe easy, stay local and be cool this 3 day holiday weekend. Heading to the coast? Expect a foggy marine layer in certain areas.

Aspendell

Bear Valley

Dardanelle

Kennedy Meadows

Kirkwood

Lake Tahoe

Ponderosa

Truckee

Need a local map by the big weekend?
Make sure to order Priority shipping before September 1.

New, waterproof Inyo Maps

Newly released & updated, waterproof map of Inyo National Forest is finally here - just in time for the spectacular Fall colors in the Eastern Sierra.

In addition, the National Forest Service has run outta several maps this season. Sequoia & Stanislaus National Forests are in very short supply. Total Escape has only a few plastic Stanislaus left in stock & the Sequoia we only have in paper now. Emigrant & Ansel Adams is still outta stock with the USDA, but Tom Harrison has awesome topo maps available for these popular Wilderness areas. Total Escape offers USPS Priority shipping 6 days per week!

See new releases and Maps on sale

Hey, where did my link go?

Total Escape has been linking to California small town tourism, small business and recreation outfitters for over a decade. We manage over 20,000 external local links inside the golden state. We feature over 600 small towns, focusing more on the remote back roads and less on the tourists traps.

If you are lucky enough to do business in the tourism, outdoor market of California, we wanna hear from you - cuz we definately have your market. Independent lodges, recreation, tour guides, retreats, campgrounds, parks, museums, vistors centers.

Maybe your web site was once recieving traffic from Total Escape and is now not. This could be because we have not heard from you recently. Earlier this year new advertising programs were launched with our upgraded storefront and we now ask that you update business listings with regularly. Create a new account today, be informed and benefit from our excellent web traffic. We push a nearly a million page views per month & average 10,000 unique visitors per day.

Total Escape now offers reciprocal linking for the budget minded!

Advertise on California's local Total Escape

Total Escape has a Facebook page

Facebook has rapidly become the space to congregate daily online.... where everyone can keep up with all their friends & family in one place. Reports now show 60% of the US audience uses Facebook and the average person spends over 5 minutes per day logged on. Yikes! Have no fear, we are here to help YOU get away from the computer. Review past trips photos, find secluded lakes, dirt roads, hot springs, get announcements on the latest map releases - and our upcoming road trips.

Win free maps with the "Name that Spot" photo contest, where you can hone your back road knowledge of California and acquire new map skills. Philip Simon from San Diego keeps winning this game, but most of you aren't even playing yet. We need some fresh contestants!

Become a fan on Facebook


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