Waking
up to the Jurupa /
San Bernardino / San Gorgonio /
Redlands sunshine,
it is time join
John Browning for coffee at
Brisket's before
setting sights
back on I-10 towards the
Yucaipa grade,
Crafton Hills,
and Mt.
San Bernardino, to
Oak Glen to pick up the thread of the walks across Southern California, beginning at
Chagall Road,
walking up between
Wilson Creek Canyon and the
Pisgah Peak burn, with
San Timoteo Badlands,
Zanja Peak, and the San Gabriels behind.
Progressive
signs lead the
way up
sinuous slopes past
estates,
dogs,
orchards,
poignant
roadside
memorials
ranch gates,
suburban
spreads,
and various
metal
objects.
Parrish
Ranch
is followed by
Smart Solar,
Mom's Orchard,
private playgrounds,
Law's Coffee Shop, and
Oak
Glen
Retreat.
Beyond the
sycamores of
the Village,
there are more and
more relatives and others (alas for the dearly-departed big-cone Douglas fir) --
eventually a
mixed forest for the final
feifdoms
and
camps before the
Ranger Station at the
Sunset Drive divide.
From here, downslope, we return to the car, scouting out tomorrow's route as the views open up again towards the greater San Gorgonio Pass area,
across from the pastures of heaven in upper Wildwood Canyon where the
drainage divide between it and Little SG Creek is so narrow that it can only support the road.
Looping around with Mt. San Jacinto vistas,
via I-10 and the Cherry Valley Badlands, it's back to
Yucaipa for albondigas soup and Mexican coffee at Jose's, across from
Zanja Peak, then re-rendezvousing in the
palmy
San Jacinto sunset with
John, heading out to the Redlands
El Torito
Bar thereafter calling Harriet and retiring for the night.
