Bear 🐻 Valley Springs, Tehachapi. Hike & Food Together Afterwards

Save the date!
Lots of fun 🤩
We will meet at Cub Lake, which comes up right in Google Maps. There are restrooms right there too.

Suzanne’s photo from last year in June 2024 is the cover shot 📸

We finally have a date that works for all of us coordinating and/or living there: Sheila, Tom, Suzanne & Paul, and Mike.

Bear Valley Springs is a private gated community, so we’ll need to provide your name as guests for entry.

More details to come. So this description will be updated.

From Cub Lake, we’ll drop off a couple of vehicles at our hike’s ending point and carpool in a couple of vehicles to our starting point for the hike. We will only be hiking ONE way.

We’ll hike in the beautiful Bear Valley Springs community 6-8 miles. They are “easier” miles, because we are hiking downhill! ⛰️ Something like this recent hike from May 14, 2025 when they had many beautiful flowers 💐 🪻🌸🌷🌺 🌼

6 miles, 300 feet elevation gain 👍😂

Bear Valley Springs, CA: High Country, Little Valley, Oak Canyon w/ Suzanne, Tom, Yolanda to Explore Hikes for Meetup Outing
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/afternoon-ohv-off-road-drive-365d177-17?sh=she-kraw&utm_campaign=memory&unfurl=false&showMemory=true

And afterwards, we will have a potluck picnic lunch together at Cub Lake. 😋 It’s a pretty setting with picnic tables and grills.

So please bring a “camping type” outdoor chair, so that we can all enjoy the view together & visit, and a nice substantial dish to share!
🥘 🍜🥗🥟🍉🍓🫐

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*** PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY *** No one in the group is a guide or in any way responsible for your comfort or safety. Please be prepared with adequate gear and supplies for the trip. Please remember that going out into wilderness has risks associated with it and you should be aware and prepared to address any changes in weather, road conditions or to look out for/avoid random acts of nature, including insects, wild animals and natural hazards. It is your responsibility to evaluate the difficulty of any activity you participate in, and decide whether you are prepared by having the experience, skill, knowledge, equipment, and the physical and emotional stamina to safely participate.

*** WAIVER OF LIABILITY *** The Organizers and members in this group are not professional leaders, guides, or mountaineers. The function of the member or organizer is only to organize the trip. Each person who shows up for a trip/meetup (and their guest or guests) is responsible for his or her own safety. By attending a hike, or any other event organized by this group, you are acknowledging that you and any guests that you bring are aware of the risks, dangers and hazards associated with the activity and freely accept and fully assume all such risks, dangers and hazards, and further agree to release and discharge the Organizers, Members of the Kern Valley Hiking Club + Meetup Group from and against any and all liability arising from your participation in the group activities.

By RSVPing you and those you bring with you as your guests ARE agreeing to the above statements.