. Take Hwy 138 to I think it's 2N59, before you get to Burnt Mill Canyon if going up towards Crestline on 138. Drive up 2N59 a few hundred feet and park before the bridge.
hiking route:
Walk towards the creek and there is a huge sugar pine there. Then walk up the creek. We saw some sort of glowworm on this hike.
details:
There was supposed to be a near full moon this night and there was, but it didn't do us any good because the trees at Sawpit Canyon are dense and didn't really let any light in. We rock-hopped up the creek in the dusk and got up maybe 3/4 mile or so and then it was getting way too dark so we turned around (I mean there's 10-15ft cliffs out here and all kinds of cr@p) so on the way down, I ate it 3 times, the rocks were so slippery. Once I jumped about 5 feet onto what looked to be a pile of sand in the creek but it was really a slippery rock, that one hurt pretty bad. That was the 2nd fall, the first one, I just slipped and landed on my jaw an elbow and heard my jaw crack and that didn't feel so good, but this whole time, I couldn't stop laughing. It was just cool being out there in the dark. Once we got out of there, my jeans were all wet, we went to this pipe about 12ft in diameter up the road which goes under hwy 138 and ran up and down that and climbed on the debris railing a little then that was it.
THE HIKE: Rock-hop up Sawpit Canyon from 2N59 in the dark on July 15, 2000
Yeah, there's only one pic. I took more but of course when you don't use your flash in the dark the picture doesn't come out so.. Anyway, this pic is of a glowworm or something that we saw on the way out of the canyon. We're walking along and look down and there's this neon green light on a rock. I thought it was alien goo, Jerry thought it was a beeper/pager light, then I thought it was a beetle of some sort, then I got out my flashlight and yes, it was a glowworm & I've never seen one before and we didn't see any more than this one. It was about 3/4 - 1" long and the yellow looking tip was glowing neon green. I had to use my flash to get this picture so you can't tell it's very dark out there and I got a little too close so the picture is blurry.
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