[pct-l] Palm springs to San Jacinto

[Jackie McDonnell]

Hello Jalan Jalan -

Your Palm Springs plan is a good one. Check out Halfmile's map of the area.
 Go to page 9 of this pdf:

http://www.pctmap.net/iphone/ca_section_b_map.pdf

At the very top center you'll see a small white box "San Jacinto Peak -
10834 feet".  To the right of that is a yellow square with text.  Sort of
below and to the left of that square you'll another small white box
"Wellman Div".  If you take the tram, the top of the tram is under the
yellow box at the top right of the page.  you'll take the trail to Wellman
divide, then north up to San Jacinto Peak, then go east and join the PCT
near Deer Springs "white box "2SJTrail".

For a good map of the San Jacinto area, I recommend "Tom Harrison Maps -
San Jacinto Wilderness".  You can buy it here:

http://www.tomharrisonmaps.com/online%20order.html

<http://www.tomharrisonmaps.com/online%20order.html>Scroll way down.  It's
in the "Southern California" section.

Where will you intersect the PCT?  That depends upon how you go down from
San Jacinto.  Using Data Book mileage, the southern intersection is at
milepoint 180.5, the northern intersection is at milepoint 184.9.
 Halfmile's maps have milepoints which disagree a bit with the Data Book
mileage, but they're usually pretty similar.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com




On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Will M <jalan04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out a good way to make up the section from Paradise
> Cafe to Black Mountain road.  Does anyone have any advice as to the
> logistics?  I' was thinking of maybe flying into palm springs and taking
> the tram up and starting my hike from there.  Is this feasible or
> possible?  What mileage marker would I intersect the trail if I did this?
>
> Another idea, I could rent a car and drive up to Black Mountain road and
> hike South but when I hiked North from there, I don't remember seeing
> anywhere to park a car.
>
> Jalan Jalan
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