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

Lots of fun 🤩
7 miles, < 400 feet elevation gain, and ONE WAY! 🎉

We will meet at meet at Lower Sycamore Trailhead (29841-29867 N Lower Valley Road). It comes up easily & accurately using Google Maps! From our meeting point, we will leave some vehicles there and shuttle to Water Canyon Campground (25150 Campground Dr.).

Now that Highway 58 goes all of the way through Bakersfield, Tehachapi is only 58 nonstop minutes from my house in NW Bakersfield! AND it is 18-22 degrees cooler there! 👍🥶🥵

This is where we will start the hike and where we will have the potlock picnic afterwards.

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.

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

Afterwards, we will have a potluck picnic lunch together at the campground at the top, Sites #1-2
😋 It’s a pretty setting with picnic tables.

Suzanne will provide plates, utensils🍴 napkins, and “deli slider” sandwiches.

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

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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.