Howdy All
I hiked my first Skyline since the tram re-opened. Started about 5:15 to hopefully catch a good sunrise and because I figured it would take me at least 7 hours to reach the tram Stumbling around in the dark for a while was worth the sunrise.
I'm always happy to see San Jacinto at peak over point.
Great view of San Gorgonio before reaching the enchanted garden (area before the red rock aka Mars ridge). My preferred selfie -- a shadow
A well known rest area that I call Florian's point.
Only about 500 more vertical feet, thank heavens. There was a dusting of snow on the traverse.
Whew -- at last!
Put on my mask and went directly to the boarding area. Once on the tram, our conductor looked like the Craigmeister 04 Wait a minute, he's retired -- I'm having post-Skyline hallucinations Turns out 04 is helping out. This really was old-home Sunday -- in additions to Craig, three of my much faster friends passed me on Skyline Thanks so much to the two locals (Terri and Bob) who took me to my car. Celebrated my first fall Skyline with Chili Verde at the original Las Causelas before suffering through a two hour drive to Riverside.
Miles of smiles,
Ellen