For my 30th birthday Phil and I traveled up to Julian and stayed at a wonderful B&B Butterfield Inn. We hiked during the day and caught up on Lost at night.
The two hikes we made were both in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. There was actually quite a bit of snow which we [...]
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Birthday trip to Julian
Mount Woodson via Lake Poway
Had a terrific time yesterday with Phil hiking Mount Woodson.
We started at Lake Poway and took Warren Canyon Trail until we reached the Mount Woodson marker. The entire hike took us about 3.5 hours and my Nike+ estimated 8 miles. Elevation gain of ~2000 ft.
This definitely was a more difficult hike than Iron Mountain (also [...]
Iron Mountain Hike
The weather finally cooled off a bit (hopefully for a while) so Phil and I headed out to Poway yesterday to check out the Iron Mountain hike. It is mostly uphill/switchbacks but wasn’t too crazy. The hike up wasn’t too hard because of all the switchbacks and the trip back down was a great way [...]
Garnet Peak Hike
We finally made it up to Mount Laguna yesterday to hike Garnet Peak. It was perfect weather and we made the hike in about 2 hours. Before heading home we stopped in Julian for dinner and picked up an apple pie – yum!
Some info about Garnet Peak:
Located at the Northern end of the Laguna Mts, [...]