From Hwy 138, Take Hwy 2 past Wrightwood to Vincent Gap parking lot. Park.
hiking route:
Walk to PCT trailhead where the sign says Baden Powell 4 mi. Large parking area w/ full service restroom, j/k. This section of the PCT is practically wheel chair accessible (not quite, but close).
details:
This hike is just a bunch of switchbacks up the side of Baden Powell. There are some cool views while hiking and at the top. There were a whole bunch of people using this part of the trail on this day, very crowded, popular hike. There is a small spring 1.5 miles up called Lemal Spring. There are some lodgepole and limber pines as elev. increases. The trail is very nice and there are signs marking elev. and distance every so often. On the way down, we just cut down a bunch of switchbacks. We were running pretty much the whole way down; it was so fun when people were on the trail going up, we ran up the side of the mountain and around them. I ate it once while cutting some switchbacks. And it really sucked 'cause I got like 6 blisters for some reason. We could have made it a lot faster up if I didn't have to keep stopping and sticking band-aids all over my feet. I think my boots are worn out or something because I did San Gorgonio in the same boots without a blister problem. Going up, we passed everyone we saw on the trail; going down, we passed the same people who were still going up. Jerry runs by this old woman who says, "call him an idiot".
THE HIKE: Mount Baden Powell via PCT on June 24, 2000
This is a view of Baden Powell that I took after we hiked it. Baden Powell is in the center.
This is from about 1.5 miles up the trail or so at a trail side bench, how convenient.
That's Jerry - the biggest nutcase I know. He could beat anybody hiking, you don't have a chance of getting somewhere faster than him.
That's me on the top of the Mt Baden Powell. We were up there looking across the way at Pine Mtn, Dawson's Peak, and Mt. Baldy and we decided to go and hike them up the Devil's Backbone, but we were in such a rush to get over there that we were NOT cutting down all the switchbacks and my stupid insole got all folded up from the steepness of NOT cutting down the swithbacks that I got a whole ton of blisters on my feet and well, we never made it up the three peaks.
A view of the Devil's Backbone from the top of Mt Baden Powell.
Some of the Desert View from the top of Mt Baden Powell. Maybe Lancaster, Palmdale area in the far left distance.
So then we went out to El Mirage Dry Lake and that's me there.
A pic of El Mirage Dry Lake from the backside (north I guess) of it.
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