MountainKitty wrote:Hi, everyone! My name is Rosa and I'm a newbie to the forums. I recently moved to Riverside County (all the way from Upstate New York) and thought that it would be neat to look for fellow camping fanatics like myself. In short, I'm REALLY glad to have found this forum. I've never been to Mt. San Jacinto before and it definitely seems like a place I want to visit at some point very soon. I'm very much interested in camping, hiking and bird watching.
Anyway, I'm super stoked to be here. I hope to talk to everyone soon! Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Welcome to the board MountainKitty/Rosa, there's an abundant amount of places in Southern Cal to hike/climb/camp/canyoneering/bicycling etc... this is a great boad to find out data on local trials/conditions and the people on this board are super nice - there's two other boards that folks talk on for the various mountain ranges - The San Gabriels has it's own at
San Gabriels and the San Bernardino's has there board at
Which they call the San Gorgonio Wilderness Association Bullitin Board is here
Have fun whichever range you go to, the difference between New York and So. Cal is we put on Snow Shoes and Crampons to go play in the snow, in New York you have to have a shovel just to get out the front door in the snow
upstate that is - the Lake Effect (Great Lakes) always buries that area of the country, I grew up around the lakes.
Once again welcome.
Lilbitmo/Patrick