COMPLETED: Santa Rosa Mountain - Sept 2008

[The Roadie]

Been pretty busy to post, but here's what we did last weekend. I had house guests from Oregon, so I took the guy out with me and left the girls to do their thing. Teebes met us out there, after a near head-on meet-up on the one-way-in-one-way-out trail to Santa Rosa Mountain.

Getting north on I-15 was delayed 20 minutes by one of those inexplicable clear, sunny day overturnings.







Forest road 7S02 off State Route 74



Nice clouds for a sun-dappled effect:



Hills to start:



Then the fun stuff:





A famous fire warning:



Looking down to the east onto Palm Springs and the mountains farther away



Down a side trail to a deserted campsite:









Trail back to the main trail:

[The Roadie]

Then some fun wheeling the next day:









The Salton Sea at the far side of Anza-Borrego desert:



Rocks. More rocks.





Deserted campground - too much civilization for us. A picnic table, INDEED. What laziness to insist on a picnic table!



Interesting erosion results



SOmetimes you have to share the trail





Lake Hemet (reservoir) in the background



Yeah! Shelf roads!



Good wheeling!

[The Roadie]

Teebes posing on a rock accidentally, a little bit. He slays me sometimes. :dielaugh:



The two silver ones together



Yes, that ridge you see to the right of center is our route down





Teebes is such a good guy he scoops his pooch's poop, but nobody wants to carry it inside.



Yes, more trail ahead



Eating Teebes' dust



Skid plate carnage;





Almost down now. Nice shelf roads.



Oh, is that a hill climb I see coming up?







Video of the hill climb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvN_T6Xdol4