[pct-l] Additional Idyllwild stuff

[Peter Dascalos]

In your picture where you are saying:
 "Now I've gotten back to Straw. J., and hiked off in the direction of 
Wellman Divide. This is well along the way. Looking Saddle Junction area, 
and Tahquitz Peak. What is that is farthest back?"
You looking at the ridge that includes Red Tahquitz, but Red Tahquitz is at 
the end and kind of set behind due the the angle it is being viewed. The 
highest pick on that ridge is an un-named peak "8792". Red Tahquitz is 
easier to identify traveling the PCT from the south of the peak.
The other two snow capped peaks you have in your pictures are Mt. Baldy, 
10,064 ft, San Gabriel Mountains, highest point in Los Angeles County (the 
one you state is to the Northwest) and the other is San Gorgonio, 11,499 ft, 
San Bernardino Mountains, and highest point in Southern California below the 
Sierras.

OC Pete
www.onthetrail.org

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From: "Len Glassner" <len5742 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:04 PM
To: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Additional Idyllwild stuff

> Pictures here:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/len5742/Idyllwild
>
> I will be putting these pictures and more, in my TJ.  Eventually.
>
> Would someone clarify for me what peaks are just to the 'left' or east
> of Tahquitz Peak?  I was thinking Red Tahquitz but the peaks in the
> picture seem farther away to me.  (I am exposing my tentative
> map-reading skills, yikes!)
>
> Not quite as scary in pictures as it was up close and personal in some
> places.  But then I wasn't thinking about taking pictures at those
> places.  The heat wave is currently hitting Idyllwild and with 4+
> weeks before I should get there, I expect the snow situation  will
> have changed significantly.  Though my potty trowel seems to be
> ineffective, I will carry it anyway, and see if it works as a talisman
> to warn away the evil snow spirits.
>
> FWIW, IMO Comments.
>
> If you go down Devil's Slide, there are a half-dozen or so downed
> trees that seemed to me to force cutting a switchback.  Hoping that it
> is cleaned up soon.  Also there is a switchback that is REALLY sharp
> and easy to miss, especially going up.  But then there are some like
> that on most every trail I guess.
>
> IF I had no other considerations, I'd come into Idyllwild via the Deer
> Springs Trail rather than Devil's Slide, especially if coming SOBO.
> Devils Slide is shorter but leaves you with a two-mile roadwalk
> through residential. Deer Springs comes out a half mile from the main
> town.  I'd just as soon road walk as little as possible.  Be sure if
> you do this you cross to the other side of 243 where there is decent
> shoulder room.
>
> Now having endorsed a bit of a walk on 243, let me say that if you are
> going to go around Fuller Ridge and pick up the trail again at BM
> Road, REALLY try to avoid the road walk on 243.  That will likely be 8
> nerve-wracking miles, as there is virtually no shoulder in some
> places.  There is a lot of traffic.  If hitching, important to
> position yourself where someone can turn out easily.
>
> Almost cracked a tooth on the uncooked rice that came with my tacos at
> JoAnn's.  Had a so-so burger at the Lumber Mill bar/grill.  But I had
> a strawberry shake there that was pretty big, very thick (had a hard
> time getting through a straw) and actually had strawberries in it.
> Pretty tasty in a heat wave.
>
> My ATT cell phone could ring another party at  the north end Fuller
> Ridge, so you might want to call from there and say you made it, or
> maybe adjust your life insurance coverage.
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