Skyline Trail to San Jacinto summit

[FBHawke]

Ran/Hiked from the foot of Ramon Road on the Skyline trail to the summit of San Jacinto and back down on Tuesday. Met a hiker on the trail about half way from the tram to summit that suggested I post on this site. He seemed a little surprised (as did the ranger at the station) that I was doing this. I finished in 9:19, the temperature wasn't to hot about 100f at the finish, awesome day on the trail. Met several very friendly hikers on trail from tram to summit, saw no one on rest of the trail on the climb or decent. Epic day on the trail.

[HH8]

Ran/Hiked from the foot of Ramon Road on the Skyline trail to the summit of San Jacinto and back down on Tuesday.

What time of day were you descending into the heat?

[FBHawke]

Made it down to car around 4:30. The last few miles were getting a little toasty but not to bad, picked a good day to do it.

[Andy]

the temperature wasn't to hot about 100f at the finish

No disrespect intended, but that's just crazy!

Yeah, you'll fit in well here

[neverwashasbeen]

It was an exceptionally mild day here in the desert. I got quite cold on a little hike up to Round Valley that evening. Did enjoy seeing five deer.

[bluerail]

Nice time....did you keep track of the splits ?

[Sally]

Welcome to the board, FBHawke! It sounds like you can really burn up a trail. Good work! Do you do Skyline often, or was this your 1st time?

[FBHawke]

This was my first time on the trail, I am from just south of Vancouver BC Canada on vacation. My splits were approximately 5 1/2 hours up to the summit, 4 hours down. I got a little messed up at the bottom of the trail and made a wrong turn and ended up coming out on a driveway behind (I believe the museum) then ran on the road back to the car at end of Ramon Street. I did meander around by some picnic benches, went the wrong way a few times then found my way out.

[bluerail]

That's still moving with a lot of energy on the way back down..very nice, I can't imagine what you normally do.....

[FBHawke]

I have done a few ultra-marathons including the Badwater 135 in Death Valley where I finished 2nd but that was a few years back, ha ha...