SoCal on fire

From Santa Barbara to San Jacinto to right here in the SGV, fires are raging today. The Santa Barbara and SGV fires are the worst from a residential/property standpoint, but the Snow Fire in the San Jacinto range is burning up some beautiful hiking trails.

I last hiked in the area in May... after an unusually successful run of high altitude hikes I approached the prospect of summiting Mt. San Jacinto, the second highest peak in SoCal, with just a hint of cockiness.

For whatever reason, perhaps bothered by the high altitude, I moved shamefully slowly, and having not gotten to the hiking trail very early in the day, was forced to turn back without making the top to avoid hiking in the dark. Here is the trail description for the hike.

I was planning to give it another crack next weekend, but now maybe not.