Part 1 – San Jacinto 4/29 – 5/2 After returning from my brother’s wedding in Indiana, I decided to go back south to hike the miles I had skipped around San Jacinto Mountain. I had skipped some miles over the mountain because it was notoriously unsafe in storm conditions. I bought some replacement gear and…

4/9 – 4/16 Leaving Little Bear Campground, we moved west through the winding ridges of the San Bernardino mountains towards Deep Creek Hot Springs at mile 308. My trail family had been doing 15-20 miles per day because of the snow but we wanted to get to the hot spring and decided to hike further.…

4/1 – 4/8 After three nights in Idyllwild, it was time to get moving again. Another storm was forecasted for the third weekend on trail. With a storm each of the first three weeks, it has become a recurring schedule to hike the weekdays and hunker down in town during the weekends. Since I started…