2009-09-05: San Jacinto Mountain

[OLLIE]

On Saturday I had to work early in the morning. When i got off work I had the choose whether to join the guys on the BorregoFest Prerun or take my coworkers offer to go up to San Jacinto Mountain to see an area that I haven't had the opportunity to explore. Since I had my son with me and didn't want to risk the heat of the desert with him, I decided to go up instead of down. From the looks of the end of their trip I'm sort of glad I made the decision i did because my wife would have killed me for getting my sun caught in a flash flood.

It turned out to be a beautiful day. My son loved it. We ran Rouse Ridge Truck Trail to Hemet Lake. We then drove into Idyllwild for some burgers. After some lunch we went to check out Lilly Rock where we watched some climbers working at scaling the face. After Lilly rock (in Humber Park) we went up Black Mountain. We attempted to finish our day by going down Bee Canyon Truck Trail to find out about half way down that the trail had been closed off due to potential fire hazards. Before getting to the point we were forced to turn around we came to Indian Truck Trail. It was a more extreme trail that sort of reminded me of Carvacre/Pencake Rock. I played around on it a bit then decided to bail because it was getting late and the other to with me didn't want to attempt it. I want to go back up there and run it all the way through. There are a few trails off Bee Canyon I want to check out sometime...

Here's the route GPX file...

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[BorregoWrangler]

So that's where you were. Looks like a nice area. Its always fun exploring a place you haven't been.

Oh, and I'm sure your boy would have done fine in the flood. We'll just bring the inner tubes and floaties next time!

[socal_rubi]

Very nice, great photos. I've backpacked many times up there. I did not know there were any 4WD trails up there. Do you have a GPS track you could share?

[sdnative]

my wife would have killed me for getting my sun caught in a flash flood.

You only die once, might as well make it a good one

Wished you could have joined us, it was a blast. x2 on that GPS track.

[Old Fart]

Not the best map (we did a much better job on the Mountaintop maps), but a lot of folks don't even realize that san Jacinto is even IN the San Bernardino National Forest

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/d ... acinto.pdf

[OLLIE]

Very nice, great photos. I've backpacked many times up there. I did not know there were any 4WD trails up there. Do you have a GPS track you could share?

I do have the tracks for the trails. I will post them up when I upload them to my computer. There are only a few 4WD trails up there. Mostly around Bee Canyon from what I can tell.

Here is a picture of me coming off of Indian Truck Trail. I went about a mile in them turned around because it was getting late and I was solo. The two guys with me didn't want to try it. They had done it on dirt bikes before though. I would like to run it all the way through but not solo.

Indian Truck Trail Ent-Exit

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[sdnative]

Here is a picture of me coming off of Indian Truck Trail.

Oooh, very nice. Let me know when you go.

[BorregoWrangler]

Here is a picture of me coming off of Indian Truck Trail.

Yeah, that does look like fun. So I guess this would be an area to hit up to escape the summer heat?

[OLLIE]

Here is a picture of me coming off of Indian Truck Trail.

Yeah, that does look like fun. So I guess this would be an area to hit up to escape the summer heat?

Most certainly and the camping would be primo on Black Mtn..

[photojeeper]

That area is on my list too, let me know when you plan on going. .

JJ