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Last hike before I head to the hill country
There’s not much in the way of mountains in Texas so I new I had to head up to San Gorgornio before we left. Micah, Mark and John made the trek along with my dog Titus. The trail we intended to hit was at capacity for the holiday which is typical Southern California so we headed up an unfamiliar route which turned out to be a sweet trail. We ended up at a beautiful cascading waterfall and ate lunch and relaxed in the mountain air.
After about ten miles Titus’ feet were pretty tore up. I’m sure he had traveled more than ten because he was running all over the place sniffing and doing doggy things. We ended about taking turns carrying Titus the last two miles back. Poor little guy, at five months old his feet aren’t quite tough enough for that kind of adventure.
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Beautiful destruction
Spring is in the air
Directly out my bedroom window to the east sits . It rises out of the valley floor to 10,800 feet. It’s formed by sitting directly on the San Andreas fault making it’s eastern slope the steepest and tallest slope in the lower 48, rising almost straight up 10,000 feet from the desert floor.
I look at the mountain every morning waiting for enough snow to melt to make a run at it. Last year we made one attempt at the summit in the spring and got shut down from the amount of snow we had to fight through. We ran out of time and had to scurry back down.
There is a rather small window of time to climb it because there isn’t really any running water up there and it gets wicked hot in the summer. Plus you avoid the crowds if you aren’t afraid of a little snow.
Micah and I are on standby, waiting for the conditions to be right.
Micah on Devil's Slide Trail
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