[pct-l] Hiking In So Cal

[msaenz at mve-architects.com (Mike Saenz)]

So far the weather in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino & San Jacinto mountains has been very nice the past few days.
The forecast out till Thursday is clear and windy. ( `course, those are "forecasts"....I'd love to have a weatherman's job. Never have to be right...)
I was up at 8k last Saturday, Skiing in Wrightwood. It was "severe clear" as the pilots say. The wind kicked up to a steady 20mph in the afternoon over the lee side of the ridge.
50 miles in a weekend? Sounds ambitious. And within a couple hours of East LA?
South of the basins above Idyllwild would be nice, but you'd have to do a lot of criss-crossing and back-tracking to get 30-50 miles in and stay under 8k.
If you're uncomfortable about going into anything above snow level, don't go. Stay low. If not JT, then Anza Borrego?
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Lonetrail@aol.com [mailto:Lonetrail@aol.com] 
Sent:	Sunday, February 08, 2004 7:29 AM
To:	mlissner@pitzer.edu; pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject:	Re: [pct-l] Hiking In So Cal

Mike

This is lonetrail you have to pretty much watch the weather reports. I 
wouldn't chance anything over 5000 feet and that could drop down lower with new 
snow. I was up hiking yesterday but kept down to 4000 feet and that's on the 
frontal range. Email me about the middle of the week and I will try to play it 
safer for you. Will this be say 15 to 20 miles and return, or would it be a loop? 
What part of the country do you live in. 

Lonetrail (Al Mader)




> 
> This is kind of off subject, but...
> ...I'm working on planning a trip this coming weekend, but with all these 
> clippings from newspapers about the death toll of the mountain this year, I am 
> quite scared of going into the snowy climes. Does anybody know anywhere near 
> (within a couple hours) East County  LA that I can do a nice 30-50 mile 
> backpacking trip this coming weekend that wouldn't involve snow? I always like a 
> little elevation, but I can live with deserts so long as it isn't Joshua Tree 
> (I've been out there far too many times recently). 
> Thanks
> 

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