Author Archives: Uwe

One day of hiking in the San Bernardino’s: San Gorgonio Peak. One day of hiking in the San Gabriel’s: Strawberry Peak, Mount Lawlor, Barley Flats. Total weekend stats: ~28 miles, 8,270 ft elevation gain.

We are a bit behind getting into hiking summer shape, so we decided to do something about it. We ended up with a bit of a tougher hike than we initially intended.

On May 12, 2018 our little hiking group hiked the (in)famous Cactus-to-Clouds trial from downtown Palm Springs (~450ft elevation) to the top o San Jacinto Peak (10,834ft) and down to the tram mountain station.  It was Jack and Paul’s first time for this tough route. For me it was the 10 year anniversary of myContinue reading “Cactus-to-Clouds, May 2018”

There hasn’t been much snow in this severe drought year, so when there was some fresh powder reported we wasted no time and headed out to the San Bernardino mountains. [Photo Gallery at the bottom]

We hiked down Sycamore Canyon way down in southern Arizona for a few miles until we could go no further without climbing or getting wet. We need to go back there prepared for the getting wet part.

It’s become a tradition that we start the hiking year with a nice 11.5 mile, 2500ft elevation gain hike in the coastal hills to climb San Onofre Mountain.

The southern Californian outdoor equipment store chain Adventure 16 posted a challenge: Hike any three 16+ mile sections of the Pacific Crest Trail between May 8 – October 15, 2015 to win cool prizes! So Matt, Kevin and I decided to do it in one weekend. Matt looked for a reasonably “easy” section, we didn’tContinue reading “51 Miles on the PCT, May 2015”

This hike has been on my mind for a number of years. People have done it in various variations, but the version that has the hike start at Shorty’s Well and ending at Mahogany Flats was the most appealing to me for a first attempt. I also wanted to do it as a day hike,Continue reading “Shorty’s Well to Telescope Peak, May 2015”