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Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:48 pm
by JMunaretto

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:53 pm
by AlanK
Nice report and nice goin'! :)

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:02 pm
by HikeUp
Good stuff. Congrats!

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:21 pm
by FIGHT ON
yawzaw! You like? It's one of the hardest hike I've ever done, that be fo sho!

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:38 pm
by Hikin_Jim
very cool!

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:02 pm
by Tim
Congrats to you and your group, Joe!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they have permit quotas for the hike to San Jacinto from Long Valley. This makes sense because the people who run (and make money off the tram) wouldn't want their customers to be turned back by a permit quota.

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:58 am
by Bill
Excellent trip report! Thanks for the details. 8)
You have added another hike to my must do list, or bucket list. This one could put me in the bucket! :lol:

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:17 am
by Hikin_Jim
Tim wrote:Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they have permit quotas for the hike to San Jacinto from Long Valley. This makes sense because the people who run (and make money off the tram) wouldn't want their customers to be turned back by a permit quota.
That's my understanding. If you come up the tram, you get a permit, irrespective of how many other people are out there that day. When they gerrymandered the wilderness boundary to allow the tram, not only did they remove part of the land from the wilderness, they removed any protection by guaranteeing limitless access. I guess the limitless access isn't the complete end of the world, but the area at the top of the tram in and around Long Valley does look pretty trampled, and good luck if you want a quiet hike to the peak. With that much traffic to the peak, we practically need a carpool lane.

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:10 am
by Rumpled
Hikin_Jim wrote:
With that much traffic to the peak, we practically need a carpool lane.
Very true. When I did the hike in August on a Sunday, coming down it seemed like hoards passing me.
I was gassed so it was like I was the old lady in the old bug in the right lane and all these bleeps in BMW's were passing me like crazy.

As far as the number of permits, there's just the self filled out stack outside the Ranger office. You fill it out and off you go.

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:26 pm
by FIGHT ON
I obliged, but admittedly with some elitist hiking feelings. ????

Hey, first you call me a stalker, then you accuse me of being the nipple guy, now you call me crazy? When did I ever call you a name? oh yeah, i did call you johioseph. well that's not really in the same category.
Anyway what is that? you think you are better than those guys? What's the name for that? superioritycomplexmaximus? what ever dude!

Re: Cactus to Clouds 10-18-2008

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:41 pm
by lilbitmo
Nice report Jim. I've been meaning to do this one for some time.

I think I will before Christmas - I'm headed up to the 9 peaks in San Bernardino in two weeks - first things first.

:D