8 1/2 MILES OF THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL

Last week Thursday, we joined a group of our friends here in Borrego Springs on an 8 1/2 mile hike along a section of the Pacific Coast Trail.  This is the second section of the trail Marlene and I have done.  The first being a very short section between Timothy Lake and Little Crater Lake near Mt. Hood in Oregon.

We started at Barrel Springs and walked to Warner Springs.  There were 8 of us and we used 3 vehicles.  We dropped the group at Barrel Springs and ferried two of the vehicles to the end of the hike so we would have transportation when we finished the hike.

This is an easy hike from the standpoint of elevation gain and loss, but it is strenuous in that you have to keep going for 8.5 miles.  We took one short break to have lunch, but the whole process took a little less than 4 hours.

          

The trail cut across the foot hills of the San Ysidro Mountains starting in Montezuma Valley.

     

We came to and stopped to admire “EAGLES NEST”.

    

And finished following a stream bed through a magnificent grove  of Live Oak trees.  Here we saw Red Tail Hawks, Blue birds and Stellar Jays.

     

We also came across Winnie the Po’s, Bee Tree.

 

We ended at the road leading to the Warner Spring’s Post Office.