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| Hwy 138 & Old Mill Rd Update
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the hike: |
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Hiking
the hills around Hwy 138 & Old Mill Rd |
| date: |
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9/22/2001 |
| location: |
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San
Bernardino NF, Southern California, USA |
| type: |
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Wandering |
| distance: |
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~5
Mi RT |
| elev
gain/loss: |
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~1000
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| difficulty: |
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** |
| scenic: |
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***** |
| technical: |
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** |
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| driving
directions: |
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From
I-15 exit at Hwy 138 & travel east. Pass Silverwood Lake,
Pilot Rock Camp, & go a little ways up the winding road. The
only paved road you will pass is Old Mill Rd on your left.
Go past this a few hundred feet (on 138) and park at the first
large turnout on the right side of the road. |
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| hiking
route: |
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From
the turnout, we hiked down the hill to two huge Ponderosa
pines that I had been to a long time ago. From there we veered
to the right a little, down this mini stream channel & then
veered back over to the left and met up with 138 passed the
turnout and just around a bend in the road. We ran across
138 and up the opposite road bank and went up that hill a
little ways until I saw that there were Ponderosa Pine seeds
all over the ground. We spent a while picking up some seeds
and continued kind of to the left and then up this mini valley
to a pseudo-mini-summit thing & then up and to the left more
and then kind of just to the left along some old dirt roads
and then kind of around and back down jumping around in the
soft sandy dirt. Then we ran into Old Mill Rd where we found
ourselves on the other side of a barb wire fence, which someone
had already broken through in one part. So we crossed the
road and went to the forest on the other side. In a short
distance another fence started separating us from the road.
Then we walked through this young, apparently planted forest
of Sugar, Ponderosa, Coulter, & Knobcone Pine with some Giant
Sequoias. The trees here are probably 20-30 forest years old.
We kept on walking thru this forest, with some beautiful young
Sugar pines, and unfortunately a bunch of trash too. Then
we came to a bend in Old Mill Rd, crossed it and went to the
left. We cut about 45 degrees leftward through the forest
after crossing the road and somehow followed the exact route
we took up the mountain a little while after we initially
crossed 138 and ran up the bank. We ditched that path after
following it a while and cut a little rightward to meet 138
right near the turnout where there was a pretty steep bank
that we slid down. Crossed 138 and we were back at the truck.
Then we went back down Hwy 138 and stopped at I think the
2nd large turnout (maybe it was the first) after Hwy 138 stops
winding. We walked back up 138 over one bridge and then decended
below the 2nd bridge to where there was a bunch of cool rocks
and a little stagnant water. We walked up this canyon and
then it bends to the right. We kept going after the bend and
we wanted to cut up the right bank and go back to 138 that
way but the poison oak was too thick so we just turned around
and followed the creek back. Back on a ledge on the south
side of the highway, we walked back to the first brige that
we had passed earlier and decended below that to check it
out. There is a small grate in the canyon with a water pipe
that is maybe 8ft in diameter. We played in that for a while.
The we got out and walked back along the highway. We looked
down and saw a 2nd pipe under another part of the same bridge.
Kept walking and drove off continuing down 138 to the turnout
just passed Sawpit Canyon. We parked here and walked down
to the larger (maybe 12ft diameter) pipe and ran around in
that for a while. Then that was about it, but we got quite
a few good Ponderosa Pine seeds and had fun playing with the
winged seeds and knocking some seeds out of the cones. |
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| forest: |
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Awesome
forest out here, mostly Ponderosa & Sugar Pine, Oak, Incense
Cedar & Big Cone Douglass Fir. Saw some manzanita and poison
oak down near the pipes. |
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