San Jacinto National Wilderness Permits

[summitch]

I've surfed until I'm blue in the face and haven't been able to find where I can download a wilderness permit application for a dayhike in the San Bernardino National Forest section of the San Jacinto Wilderness. Got link? Thanks. Mitch Miller

[Hikin_Jim]

Permit info: http://www.fsva.org/pdf/Why%20A%20Wilderness%20Visitor%20Permit.pdf

Permit Zone Map: http://www.fsva.org/pdf/WildernessMap_2007%20II.pdf

Permit application: http://www.fsva.org/pdf/Wilderness%20Permit%20App%20MSJW.pdf

[summitch]

Thanks Jim. They answered the phone the second time I called them and told me they no longer make advanced dayhike reservations from the SBNF office in Idyllwild due to lack of staff. They also said they no longer impose a quota on any trail other than Devil's Slide, and that they put out five self-issue permits the night before, and give out another twenty-five when they open at 8 a.m.

Mitch Miller

[halhiker]

They have a lack of staff? Where is the money from the adventure passes going?