In November 2021 we ended up in Palm Desert with friends for a few days. While we were there we thought we'd attempt Cactus to Clouds again after our failed attempt to summit in snow 6 years earlier. Weather turned out perfect...
Route:
From the car parked outside the arts museum to the summit it was 22km... with ~3300m of climbing. We took the tram back down which was a ~6km backtrack from the summit. We started not mega early, but not long after sunrise.
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| I have no idea how this cactus was able to grow in the tiny crack |
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| Looking down on Palm Springs |
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| And up at the journey still to go |
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| Getting higher and reaching some real trees. Lots of granite! |
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| Granite tower on the final climb to the Tram summit |
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| infinite up! |
We encountered a few groups on the lower portions of C2C, but the upper bit we were all to ourselves. It was a weekday up top the tram so we encountered a few more people doing the summit from the Tram, but it wasn't exactly busy :)
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| Summit of San Jacinto looking south |
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| That is the pacific ocean reflecting way out there |
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| Beautiful shadow of San Jacinto back at the tram station |
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