San Gorgonio: Old Roads and Aspens

[Hikin_Jim]

If you've got a Forest Service (not USGS) map of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, you may notice that the trailhead for Aspen Grove is shown quite a bit further downstream from today's trailhead and that the trailhead is reached via a road coming from the vicinity of the old Heart Bar Ranger Station. This past Friday my friend Christian and I set out to see if we could find and follow the old road to Fish Creek and Aspen Grove and take a few photos of the aspens in their fall glory. Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/jim.barbour/OldFishCreekRoad#slideshow

[Blooty]

Am going up to Gorgonio this coming weekend and wondering how badly the poison oak is turning? From experience, I know that I am most vulnerable to that miserable malady of poison Oak-itis when the leaves have turned orange and the poison powder is in the wind....

[Hikin_Jim]

Blooty:

Poison oak doesn't normally grow above about 4000', so the SGW is mercifully free of it. There are some plants in the ribes genus such as gooseberry that sort of look like poison oak but are not.

So, hike as you like! There's no toxic brush in the SGW.

HJ

[Blooty]

It was a beautiful day yesterday for hiking Gorgonio. Fall colors and excellent conditions. Lots of water on the South trail.