Rincon Shortcut Road

Post by **Taco** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:31 pm

Has anyone here gone up this road? I've yet to do so, and I'm sorta-kinda looking for a one-way ride up it sometime soon to do some canyoneering.

Funyan005 · Post by **Funyan005** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:17 am

I'd be down to run up it, never been but I hear it's easy cheese for a jeep.

mattmaxon · Post by **mattmaxon** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:55 pm

I've been up it pre-station fire. It has been repaired /improved post-fire. I haven't been down to the west fork but I'm guessing it is in good shape.

Post by **Taco** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:15 pm

I ran/walked it a couple years ago. 4WD would be overkill with how it was then.

Tom Kenney · Post by **Tom Kenney** » Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:21 pm

The last storm did some severe damage in the Mt. Wilson area (north side, West Fork). Many hundreds of trees blown down on Shortcut Road and Rincon Road (probably also all trails in the area). I did what should have been a quick ride yesterday that turned into a '3 hour tour' as I dragged my bicycle through the horizontal forest. This is the worst deadfall event I've seen up there!

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:44 pm

I walked up part of it from the bottom. It is a lonnnnnng ass road. You can take a 4 wheeler the whole way if you get a permit.

Tom Kenney · Post by **Tom Kenney** » Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:22 pm

CrazyHermit wrote: ↑I walked up part of it from the bottom. It is a lonnnnnng ass road. You can take a 4 wheeler the whole way if you get a permit.

I did the exact opposite, rode my bike from Red Box to Pine Mtn, saw the road dropping precipitously toward CA-39, and decided I'd seen enough!

I read a TR somewhere a while (years) ago, a group did a hike from Rincon Road over Monrovia Peak and down the southern slope to some park. They got the permit to do the shuttle.

Post by **dima** » Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:23 pm

Do you know how one gets a permit? We biked this whole road as part of the Baldy Bruiser, and there were a number of private cars up there.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:06 am

Here's a pdf with all the rules. You can pick up a permit at the East Fork OHV area or at the Glendora ranger station
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 319636.pdf

Post by **Taco** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:53 pm

Huehuehuehue, now I have ridden the whole thing. Dima, my buddy and I have been talking about driving up there for a while now. He volunteers with the FS, so I think it wouldn’t be too hard to get it done if you wanna go. Just gotta do the impossible task of having the same days off!

Tom Kenney · Post by **Tom Kenney** » Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:50 am

There's a report on TrailForks (with lurid photo) about a huge slide blocking Shortcut just north of the ford of West Fork. Looks impassable bad. Options for accessing the mid-country are getting pretty thin, even for us persistent types.