San Jacinto Backpacking

The past three days, myself and two others from my crew went backpacking in the
San Bernardino National Forest and the San Jacinto State Park Wilderness. We
started our journey from Humber Park near Idyllwild, CA at one in the afternoon
on Thursday. I think we hiked approximately 7 miles that first day to Caramba
Point Overlook in the national forest. The next day we hiked to the Round Valley
designated camping area in the state park and stayed at the Lotus Camp, which
was an awesome campsite with great views from the boulders. On our third day
we hiked up to San Jacinto Peak and finished off the trip with a 16 mile hike.
I thought this was a great route as we covered almost 30 miles with a bunch of
elevation change. I also tried something completely new on this trip as I hiked
in my Keen sandals and left my boots in the trunk of my car. It really is amazing
how much I have adjusted to the temperatures of the Yuha; what I normally wear
for 0 degrees, I now have to wear for 40-50! Here are some of the pictures I
took... More here.