From Victorville area, take Hwy 18 to Baldwin Lake Rd, make left. This eventually turns into Shay Rd and then meets up with Greenspot Blvd (Hwy 38). Make a left and drive 3 miles or so to 2N93 on your right, take it 1.2mi to the Sugarloaf National Recreation Trailhead (2E18).
hiking route:
Hike up the Sugarloaf National Recreation Trailhead (2E18).
details:
Hike up an old Jeep trail (there is a locked gate at the begining) and after 45min we arrive at a split with a sign that says please stay on the trail or something, we went to the left, but you're supposed to go to the right and take the smaller trail rather than the jeep trail. To the left it was a nicely forested flat area, then it kind of started going slightly downhill so we turned around, walked a little ways, and cut off the trail to our left few hundred feet to another unused jeep trail that goes steeply up the mountain side and meets the foot trail that we should have taken which went to the right. So, after a little ways back on the right trail we see this house shaped sign that says 2N93, 3mi back and Sugarloaf Mtn, 2mi ahead. This is 60min into the hike. So we head up towards the peak, first arriving at one peak, then dropping maybe 200ft, then we head back up, where the trail does a few switchbacks and steepens a little bit. The we arrive at the peak where you really have to climb a tree to really get a great view. It seemed like a little more than 2 miles from the sign to the mountain top. It was pretty hazy up there but we could see the San Gabriels - Pine Mtn, Dawson Peak, Mt Baldy, Baden Powell, Cucamonga Peak, Wright Mtn, Table Mtn... and a good view of Butler Peak. Big bear lake was pretty hazy but it looks pretty big from up there. On our way out we noticed a good view of San Gorgonio and the mountains of the San Gorgonio wilderness.
trail condition:
the trail is pretty rocky in most places. Near the beginning, it is muddy in a few spots where tiny little streams run over it. It is not steep except the switchbacks near the peak steepen a little bit. Except for the one drop between the 2 peaks along the ridge, it is pretty much continuously uphill.
forest:
the lower forest is quite lush in some spots. There are some huge ponderosa pines, jeffery pines, and western junipers along the trail. There are many kinds of plantlife on the trail including mountain whitehorn, mountain mahogany, manzanita... At the peak there are limber pine, lodgepole pine and even sugar pine. The huge junipers are quite awesome though. On our way out we saw Green Spring which is maybe less than a mile from 2N93 & maybe 200ft from the trail (a little trail goes down to it). This area is pretty lush & flat and there is this huge fallen pine tree near the spring which is cool.
what sucked:
some idiot had gone along years ago and hacked all these "i" shaped figures on both sides of almost all the trees along the trail. At Green Spring, there are these orange steel stakes in the ground for no apparant purpose.
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THE HIKE: 2N93 to Sugarloaf Mountain via Sugarloaf National Recreation Trail, 2E18 on August 12, 2000
There's Jerry on the top of a 30ft tall Sugar Pine on the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. Before this, he climbed up a rotted and nearly dead limber pine and got to the top, but that wasn't high enough.
That's about all the tree climbing I did this day.
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