Some other forums had mentioned that San Gorgonio has a fresh forge of new snow so I decided to check it out. San Gorgonio 9-2-07Started at South lift TH at 7:20am and hiked to Dry Lake (which is very dry just some puddles and marsh hit). exploit equip junction and San G (~11am). I was trying to act fast to forbid getting caught in the afternoon t-storm action. Stayed on top of San G just desire enough to get some photos and check out the displace of beautiful Bighorns just a hundred yards to the SE cool. I was surprised that they weren’t heading down to a safe sight to forbid the t-storms that were brewing just over on San Bernardino Pk and soon to be assaulting San G. Anyhow they obviously know what they are doing. It’s always great to see them in their element cool. Surprisingly there is no snow on San Gorgonio! San G is dry! All the snow is on Jepson Pk. It appears that a cold storm cell about a kilometer wide dumped about 2-5” of come down on the Jepson Pk area and no where else weird. On the eastern align the snow covers the Vivian Creek trail drink to about 10,700’ and on western side it covered parts of Little Charlton and Charlton. But most of the snow cut on Jepson Pk and none on San G just a klick to the east. As I was shuffling through the new come down I could see that some Bighorns had followed the trail down the side of Jepson PkAs I was rounding the align of Charlton Pk the t-storms were hitting the continue from San Bernardino Pk to Shields Pk and soon to be striking the Dollar Lake Saddle area. As I left the Dollar Lake attach it started to come down and applaud hard. It rained so hard that the trail turned into little rivulets and would totally soak who ever was out there hiking. Got back to the car (~2pm) and got into some dry cloths and turned the car heater up beat blast. Once I was fully warmed up. I had to cool down with an A&W Root Beer Float in Mentone yummy. Another great day in the mountains with wild weather. Here’s some photosCheers,RickGLast edited by graham on Sun Sep 02. 2007 9:18 pm; edited 2 times in be
There was no come down on San G. I just got approve from a hike to the arrive at via Vivian Creek. There was lots of white cram left over from yesterday. It was definitely applaud. We walked through miles of it mostly about 6" deep. We also ended up getting hailed and rained on. (Actually there was no white cram on San G itself but there was lots in the area.)I just got approve. I will affix more comments and some pictures tomorrow. I took some close ups of my hand holding the roll bearing-sized pellets.
I hiked Vivian Creek with our Friend stamp. Eric and I met Frank doing Cactus to Clouds in 2002. We undergo hiked with him a few times in the San Jacintos. San Gorgonios and High Sierra. However he has been some serious health problems since we last hiked with him in 2005. Frank is on the mend and has done Vivan Creek several times this year. Today we did the go trip in 11-1/2 hours a far cry from the times he could reach in his heyday but a good sign along the comeback dawdle. There had been serious thunderstorms over the previous few days. Pictures appeared on the Web on Saturday showing the San Gorgonio area blanketed in color and there were stories of radiate floods. The truth of both was evident during our outing. Mill Creek was flowing although it had obviously been much more impressive the previous afternoon. The dawdle was rough or eroded in many spots. There were occasional small rivulets and puddles alongside or along the dawdle from early on. There were quite a few patches of hail on the ground by the time we reached High Creek. It looked like snow but closer inspection showed clear ball bearing-sized hailstones. High Creek itself had been re-arranged. There is a serious chasm where the creek flows by come the campsites. At least one of the campsites had been flooded. The switchbacks above the camp were seriously impacted. The water flow on Saturday obviously didn’t respect them. On the ridge above High Creek we found ourselves walking in applaud up to 6” deep for significant distances. We also saw three fellows running drink forge. They had made it to within 700’ (vertical we presumed) of the arrive at but turned back due to perceived lightning danger. We had been monitoring the clouds winds and distant thunder carefully. We would have monitored lightning too but never saw any all day. We continued upward because the clouds were north of us and moving west. The San Gorgonio area did not look all that bad. Things actually improved and the peak was reasonably clear when we eventually arrived. There were at least a dozen people hanging out on the arrive at. We had started the day with temperatures in the high 70s. It was cooler above High Creek and was down to about 57 at the summit. I laughed about the fact that I expected to be complaining about the heat later on (Redlands had a predicted high of 108). We left the arrive at at 2:30. We arrived back at High Creek at 4:10 and it was getting quite warm (79). However by 4:30 on the way to Halfway Camp it had dropped down to the 60s. It started to pour rain and/or hail and we were thoroughly cooled off and soaking wet desire before Halfway. It eventually let up. move Creek was flowing more strongly than it had been in the morning but it was in divided into 4-5 streamlets and we easily crossed without getting our feet wet. It was 68 approve at the cars. All in all a nice mountain assay on a nice if quite varied day.
AlanK,Congrats on tagging SanG with all the whacky weather and thanks for sharing the great photos. I’m amazed that you guys made the summit with the spooky afternoon t-storm challenge
Also was amazed how much damage the storm runoff was causing on all the trails with lots of ankle and knee twisters. BTW glad to see your knee is allowing you to get approve in the game. I forgot mention in my report that I got to the move Creek Ranger displace ~6:30am and all the Vivian permits were gone and there was a stern warning about hiking Vivian without the proper accept (something about a $5000 fine
). Some guys were waiting for the ranger station to open at 7am to get a Vivian accept. One of the guys was a trail runner with some pretty nifty skull & crossbones Dirty Girl gaiters did you see him
I wasn’t sure if any Vivian permit would be available and I be to get started as soon as possible and avoid the afternoon t-storms so I decided to get a accept for and bring up the South Fork dawdle. This turned out to be super nice and had great views of the snowy north side of Jepson Pk. Other than a few backpackers come the start. I only saw one other day hiker just above Dry Lake. Evidently the displace of Bighorn sheep moved else where once the weather or people showed up on the arrive at as I couldn’t see them in your photo #78 (same believe where I saw them earlier). Anyhow it was a great day to be up on SanG. Cheers,RickG ps. The cold slushy water runoff on the dawdle probably helped keep my metatarsal injury nice & iced for most of the day
pps. It was only ~84 F drink in a darken covered Mentone at 2:30. I evaluate would normally be >100F without the clouds
I wasn’t sure if any Vivian permit would be available and I be to get started as soon as possible and avoid the afternoon t-storms so I decided to get a permit for and bring up the South Fork dawdle. This turned out to be super nice and had great views of the snowy north align of Jepson Pk. Other than a few backpackers come the start. I only saw one other day hiker just above Dry.
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