Sutter Buttes-A Trip to the Top Pt. 2

For anyone who lives, or has lived, around the Sutter Buttes and wondered what the trip to the top of south Butte was like, here it is in real time. The Sutter Buttes are the smallest mountain range in the world.

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[clintonsac]

I drove up there a few times in the mid 90's to repair AC units on some of the buildings. Not too bad going up, but comming down sucks. the road looks to be in a little better shape these days. It was pretty crumbly back then.

[kurtb8474]

@clintonsac The gentleman driving the truck is a telecom specialist at Yuba college. He's been driving up there for years .

[RoccoPirro]

I walked to the top of South Butte once with Boy Scout Troop 27 from Gridley. That was about 50 years ago, before the road and the tower. We climbed North Butte too.

We even had a guy named, Kurt B. in the troop. I think he's a farmer in Yuba City now...

[kurtb8474]

@RoccoPirro Interesting! If that would have been me 50 years ago, then I would've been about 2 years old. LOL! My friend and I walked up that road back in '88... one night in December.

[hellcattiff87]

your crazy!!!! id freak out the whole way. were you afriad your first time doing that? ive always wondered how it looked from the top.

[kurtb8474]

@hellcattiff87 HA! HA! No, I wasn't afraid because the guy driving the truck has driven up there hundreds of times. But, some of his other friends have freaked out. One was so scared that he wanted out of the truck about half way up.

[RedCloudBeechWaveAhh]

great, simple video! no distraction from the thing itself YAAAAYYYYY!!!!

[devol4]

Oh man haha. I really wish this was open up to the public!

[sydkid1234]

Is that pathway open to public I always wanted to ride up the buttes on a bike

[Luciferminusone]

Wow! You were nowhere NEAR the top at the end of part 1. COOL!

I have always wondered what the top was/is like.

[RoccoPirro]

@kurtb8474 I think we camped to the east of South Butte and went up the south side. All day long, this fellow on a white horse, wearing a black hat with a big feather would tail us. We'd see him on ridges and hills just watching us. Later on that night we found out it was a guy named Caspar Kellogg and it was his land we crossed and were camping on. He wasn't real happy about that. It took us all day and we got back after dark. Thinking back...North Butte was a tougher climb.

[RoccoPirro]

Yeah...like I said, there was no road back then. If I recall we went up the south side. A fellow named Casper Kellogg tailed us on horse back all day. Later we found out we were camped on his land, he wasn't too happy about it. North Butte was a tougher climb, especially when you got to the chimney at the top.

After they abandon the missile base, we explored that a few times.