Photos of California Rides That Will Be Lost To Wilderness

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Mountain bikers scramble to the top of Andesite Peak just off the Hole in the Ground Trail.
The Mt. Lola Trail in Castle Peak offers incredible bicycling.
Castle Peak landscape.
Mt. Lola from southwest side at White Rock Lake.
Bowman Lake is the northern boundary of the Grouse Lakes Proposed Wilderness. A strip of Wilderness proposed between the foreground and Bowman Lake would block bicycling access to the Forest Service road by the lake.
Click here for large Grouse Ridge panaroma Grouse Ridge offers some of the last, high altitude riding on the Crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Cyclists enjoy the fine riding on a trail in Meiss Meadows, southwest of Lake Tahoe.
The high altitude landscape of Meiss Meadows.
Meiss Meadows trail, looking northwest to Lake Tahoe.
Resting at the intersection of the Tahoe Rim Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail in Meiss Meadows.
Enjoying a ranch road in the newly acquired Payne Ranch.
A typical road in Payne Ranch. Senator Boxer's bill would designate this "Potential Wilderness," and it would ban bicycling.
Payne Ranch shows much evidence of humans, including this water project.
Cyclists descend the road from Eva Bell Mine in the White Mountains proposed wilderness.
The Mexican Mine Road is near the Schulman Grove and is currently protected by the 58,000 acre "Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest" designation.