Another great sunrise over Palm Springs. A crisp morning with temps in the 40s and on the trail by 6:15am. I had been toying with the idea of doing the full…
Perfect weather, not a cloud in the sky. Similar time of day as past trips, but much different lighting given that it's a different time of year.
Panorama overlooking the desert floor from a few thousand feet up.
First view of San Gorgonio with some snow still on top from the last storm. I'm not figuring on hitting any snow below Long Valley today.
The desert floor from about 4,500' above sea level.
Our first glimpse of Long Valley. So close, but yet so very far...
Coach Dru is going strong at around 6000'.
Coach Dru in the chapparal tunnel.
Coach Dru at the obligatory C2C photo spot.
Our first sign of snow and it's only around 6500'. We might be hitting more snow than I thought.
7000' and things start getting really steep.
There's snow on the trail for most of the last mile. It's a thin layer of snow over hard pacled ice, which isn't too bad on the way up, but was treachorous on…
Coffman's Crag.
Really icy + steep grade + narrow trail = one heck of a workout. Stabilizing muscles are working overtime. I had a pair of YakTrax Pros with me, which we didn't…
Made it to Long Valley! Almost exactly six hours to here from the Art Museum.
Still plenty of snow in Long Valley and there was another storm due within the next couple of days.
While we were in Long Valley, we ran into some well known locals from the San Jacinto Message Board . One was Ellen Coleman (aka Ellen the Hut), the others I…
The always amazing view from the lodge balcony. It was a busy weekend day and we got the usual stares from the urban tourists wondering what the heck we were…
Coach Dru on the balcony overlooking Palm Springs more than 8000' below.
Me on the balcony.