Hit the trail around 11:00 with temps in the low 70's at the bottom of Icehouse canyon.
With all the snowmelt the stream was a raging river, the highest I've seen it. The trail was also washed out before the split to Cedar Glen so a new path follows a short diversion down to the streamside and back up to the main trail. Nothing major maybe 20 yards or so.
I also saw an abundance of springs/streams/creeks that I did not see last year even with snowmelt. Here's a vid about half way up just past columbine spring of one of the waterfalls.
I made good time to the saddle. I wasn't rushing and was just enjoying the cool mountain air, soaking up the relaxing breeze and enjoying the views. Took a short break at the saddle, and started up to timber.
From timber you can see just how much snow is still on bighorn, cucamonga, and ontario. Theres so much more snow than is visible on the southern facing slopes, which look devoid of any snow when viewing from the valley.
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This is a stark contrast to Telegraph and Thunder as seen here which look quite dooable with very little visible snow from the saddle up.
A shot of baldy poking through the snow and tree's atop Timber:
and Finally a panorama atop Timber:
All the pics can be found via the everytrail link:
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1063374
