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San Jacinto Conditions
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Hey guys. I wanted to share some information about conditions at Mt. San Jacinto for anyone wanting to go there in the next few days. I hiked on the tramway side of the mountain a few days ago and the trails are still mostly covered in snow. The Round Valley trail starts to become covered in snow at around 8500 ft, but this is because it goes from a south-facing slope to a north-facing slope. The north face is basically covered in snow down until the upper tram station while the south face only has some snow patches. When I was there two days ago, snow was firm enough where I didn't need microspikes, but it's expected to snow this week so trail conditions will probably change. There's still 2-3 ft of snow up there so hazardous conditions still exist. You can find more details and images as well as snowpack data on my recently started website: https://socalbackcountry.org/conditions/san-jacinto-report.. Stay safe everyone! |
Dawson Mai wrote: This has been one of the mildest winters in recent decades, with historically low precipitation and snowpack in the San Jacinto mountains. If you consider these conditions to be ‘hazardous’, you really don’t belong in the backcountry. |
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Hey Dawson, neat website, I just checked it out. I see that you’re a high school student trying to consolidate data to make travel in the SoCal mountains easier and that’s super rad. I suggest collaborating with SanJacJon, and maybe some other key players in the SoCal mountaineering community to really bring everything together and get your website growing. The more hands on deck for conditions report, the better. Maybe hit up the UCSD Alpine Club folks (sd_alpineclub on Instagram) and work with them as well — a lot of them are data nerds and grad students so you can probably learn a lot too! Other active clubs to hit up — American Alpine Club of San Diego, and maybe the ACSD. (I’m from San Diego lol, so those are the only groups I know haha). Find your local climbing organizations and join them. :) |
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Hey folks! Thanks for the conditions report. I’m driving through May 10-11 and am curious if anyone has any updated information regarding snow pack up top for the boulders. Also curious about temps. Lastly, I’m a wee bit out of shape and will also be traveling with two people who aren’t super strong - both beginners. They probs will be psyched on things that are shorter in the V1 and under range, I’m good to V5/6 (but also g-rated as their spotting skills are minimal). Any recommendations for good density in these ranges would be much appreciated! |
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Hey folks! Thanks for the conditions report. I’m driving through May 10-11 and am curious if anyone has any updated information regarding snow pack up top for the boulders. Also curious about temps. Lastly, I’m a wee bit out of shape and will also be traveling with two people who aren’t super strong - both beginners. They probs will be psyched on things that are shorter in the V1 and under range, I’m good to V5/6 (but also g-rated as their spotting skills are minimal). Any recommendations for good density in these ranges would be much appreciated! |
Dan Alroy wrote: snow at tramway is rare, patchy, and mostly irrelevant at the moment. I assume the same for black mtn. Good density of v1s: skip black mountain, head to the dance floor + beach area of shangrila at tramway. Not only are there a lot of low key v1 boulders (shangrila warm up, poor man’s Slashface), there are boulders in your range just a five minute walk away (methane, don’s dyno, blue flame, as a bonus all these are lowballs with flat landings you don’t really need good spotters for). |
