Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:59 am
Nice colors below Piute Crags yesterday:
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wingding wrote:The fall colors were pretty along the Horton Creek Trail yesterday, but my bright idea of trying to get up to Basin Mountain with a bad cold failed. I got to 10,900' and called it a day, but that gave me more time to enjoy the leaves before heading home.
Fall Colors along the Horton Creek Trail yesterday:
http://kathywing.smugmug.com/California-Hiking-Scrambling/Sierra-Nevada-Hiking/Horton-Creek-Trail-92609/9771456_cmmz2#662459882_cNwrm
wingding wrote:For those of us way down here in the southern end of California, the Aspen Grove in the San Bernardino National Forest was really pretty today:
http://kathywing.smugmug.com/California-Hiking-Scrambling/Southern-California-Mountains/Aspen-Grove-10309/9842107_nfkr5#P-1-15
wingding wrote:
Directions to the parking area: Turn right (south) off Highway 38 about 6 miles past the Barton Flats Visitor Center on Forest Service Road 1N02. Follow 1N02 until it forks right to 1N05. Go right up 1N05 (this is a rough unmaintained road but passenger cars can slowly get to the parking area) to the signed Aspen Grove Trail parking (7,400'), 2.6 miles in from Highway 38.
The best part of the grove is found by heading right after you cross the creek the first time (if you go left you'll head toward the Fish Creek Trail). Just keep following the trails that run on either side of the creek and you'll run into a really nice section about 1/2 mile or so from the first creek crossing. There are some old beaver dams in that area too.
There's supposed to be another aspen grove in the Broom Flat area of the San Bernardino National Forest. Sometime I'm going to go look for that second aspen grove. Here's some info on it:
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/rna/gtr_chapters_pdf/broom_flat_rna.pdf