San Jacinto Hike

Well here it is my San Jacinto report lots of data to sift thru....

Here we go, started with meeting everyone at the base of the Palm Springs Tramway we packed up the gear and hit the road. Ride up in the Tram

Tram up Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 4304 ft Location: Palm Springs, CA Elev. Gain: +6234 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+6532/-298] Time: 01:48 PM Difficulty: 3.8 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 3.47 miles Time: 0:36:52 Speed: 5.6 mph Pace: 10' 38 /mi Calories: 202 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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After settling in for a few mins up top 8,516ft we got moving to the camp at round valley. Temps were in the 40's-30's and it was calm and clear. The Hike to Round valley was a decent work out as my pack was heavy (well heavy for me) ~2.5 miles and we were there.

hike to camp Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 8761 ft Location: Palm Springs, CA Elev. Gain: +653 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+823/-170] Time: 02:47 PM Difficulty: 3.3 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.14 miles Time: 2:03:48 Speed: 1.0 mph Pace: 57' 47 /mi Calories: 318 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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We found a good spot and setup camp. As the sun dropped the temps did also and my pansy socal ass was getting cold. So to make dinner we set off on a little night time water run (I only ran my gps cause I didn't wanna get last but I'll share all data I have :)

water run Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 9031 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+104/-104] Time: 04:54 PM Difficulty: 1.8 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   69 F temp; 7% humidity   69 F heat index; winds N 7 Performance Distance: 0.70 miles Time: 1:04:50 Speed: 0.6 mph Pace: 01' 32' 52 /mi Calories: 105 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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After our little jont we made a warm dinner, thanks to matt I kicked back a couple shots of Jamisons to warm up. The moon was insane and we went off for a little night walk to check things out very cool (and the temps were also) but the walk warmed me up and it was time to head to bed. With a Nalgene of boiling water at the base of my sleeping bag I went off to sleep.... the damn moon was so bright I kept thinking it was the sun coming up thru out the night but I slept ok....

Next day ~6:30am got up and cooked a bit of oatmeal and set off for the summit.

Was a very cool pretty easy climb to the top, the altitude was noticable but not bad. The views from the top were awsome you could see the pacific ocean and the salton sea! the windmills from the palm springs wind farm looked like nothing more than rows of dots on the ground below.

summit Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 9919 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: +42 ft Date: 11/25/07 Up/Downhill: [+1774/-1732] Time: 08:15 AM Difficulty: 4.2 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy   69 F temp; 9% humidity   69 F heat index; winds S 6 Performance Distance: 5.33 miles Time: 5:45:28 Speed: 0.9 mph Pace: 01' 04' 46 /mi Calories: 773 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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I was pretty damn tired and in the pics you will see at this point I packed up camp and pasted out for about 20mins of so as everyone packed thier stuff. We were off to head back to the tram!
The hike back was pretty easy except the damn little climb to the tram station at the end that did me in!

From camp to tram Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 8745 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: -492 ft Date: 11/25/07 Up/Downhill: [+295/-787] Time: 03:32 PM Difficulty: 2.8 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   67 F temp; 14% humidity   67 F heat index; winds SE 7 Performance Distance: 2.29 miles Time: 1:13:37 Speed: 1.9 mph Pace: 32' 13 /mi Calories: 257 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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We had a beer (best $8 beer I ever drank) toasted to a good weekend and headed home a great trip!

everyones pics consolidated in one gallery here (157 pics :) )




Oh and one more thing....."Who open da winda...? I don't wanda winda open!"