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Post by hikerchick395 on Mar 14, 2018 8:06:37 GMT -8
When we lived in SoCal we did the weekend trips all of the time...driving overnight to arrive at the trailhead at daybreak if possible. In the early years, permits were mailed to your home. Then, later, you could pick them up in an overnight box. The Inyo National Forest used to have permit stations at the bottom of a canyon, like Bishop Creek or Rock Creek. On one trip we arrived at the Bishop Creek station, waiting with lots of other folks hoping for permits, and we were treated to quite the meteor shower. That must've been the Perseids.
Edit...I looked back and that was in August of 1983...our trip was to Dusy Basin and Barrett Lakes with the goal of hiking up Mount Sill. We were stuck at the still frozen Barrett Lakes with almost non-stop rain, plus the most snow cover, in summer, that we've experienced.
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Post by johntpenca on Mar 18, 2018 21:24:42 GMT -8
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speacock
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Post by speacock on Mar 20, 2018 8:23:37 GMT -8
We used to eat at The Ranch House - usually on the way back. Loved their beans and cornbread and bottomless iced tea and blue cheese hamburger. They were not open for breakfast then - they changed owners and it hasn't been the same. (well, DUH!).
Way waay back I had the best Ortega chili omelette ever - for breakfast!
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jdlp
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Post by jdlp on Mar 30, 2018 15:05:17 GMT -8
For AFN, Mount Pacifico has a beautiful campsite up top too. Part of the hike there is a slog through exposed burn areas, but the last section has nice trees and meadows, and amazing views. Near Cucamonga, there's also a campsite on the way to Ontario and Bighorn Peaks.
Twin Peaks near Mount Waterman is great too. There is a stream/spring there too, though I wouldn't count on it necessarily, especially later months.
On the SBNF side, San Bernardino Peak, Dobbs Cabin/Alger Creek are great as well. For a late start up SB Peak, I'd look into John's Meadow for camp, since, if memory serves me right, it is 4 miles in with plenty of nearby water. For San Gorgonio, I think Fish Creek and a lot of the other routes are still closed from the 2015 fire, but I could be mistaken.
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