Descent to Snow Creek
/San Jacinto Wilderness to Snow Creek is something like a 7000 foot descent. East facing slope that broils you even in the early morning sun. Sheesh. Two weeks with no blisters until this descent - even with changing sox mid-way.
The day started out lovely. Up at 3:00. Hiking by 4:00. Need to get quicker at this...
Then our Nemesis, the sun, showed up.
It's a section with the widest, longest switchbacks at the bottom ever. You keep thinking you've only got another 1000' to descend and then you just keep hiking and never get closer to being down.
Mt. San Jacinto up above
Then at the bottom you find there is no snow, nor even a creek. Nor tree, nor shade of any kind. The next section has a closed part so we need to skip a chunk. We'll restart at Onyx Summit.