Bighorn Mountain, Dragon's Head, San Gorgonio Mountain
Bighorn Mountain, Dragon's Head, San Gorgonio Mountain
Leaders: Mars Bonfire, Carleton Shay
31 August 2001
This one's going to be really informal, because Mars will be doing a
report for the Lookout, and I'll leave all the serious stuff for him.
Mainly, I wanted to share Brian's photographs. (These are the raw
versions -- he'll clean them up when he has some time free, and then
they'll be smaller and easier to look at. Watch this space?)
This hike ended up being a little unusual -- nine of us started out,
eleven of us returned. San Gorgonio was optional, most of us didn't
need it, but all eleven of us did it, anyhow. We started hiking
shortly after 7:15AM, came out at 8:30PM, and had a truly wonderful
time. The weather was gorgeous.
The initial nine included the leaders Mars Bonfire and Carleton Shay,
plus Dave Comerzan, Rich Gnagy, Joanne Griego, Laura Joseph,
Karen Leverich, Brian Leverich and Ingeborg Prochazka. We were
joined shortly before leaving the trail for Bighorn Mountain by Chris
Davis (who'd just had quite the adventure on 10K Ridge, the details
of which he'll maybe share here soon?) and George Tucker. Chris
we'd been expecting ever since Fish Creek Saddle, George was a total
but welcome surprise.
Bighorn behind Carleton, at lunch on the flank of San Gorgonio:
Dragon's Head:
Ingeborg, Karen, and Mars:
Laura at ease:
Karen, Joanne, Ingeborg, Mars:
Dave and Ingeborg on Bighorn Mountain:
Karen, Mars, Rich, and a bit of Carleton on Bighorn:
Laura and Joanne:
Chris and Carleton:
Bighorn from Dragon's Head:
The view from Dragon's Head:
The group on Dragon's Head, with San Gorgonio behind:
The chasm between Dragon's Head and Bighorn:
Chris on Dragon's Head:
Laura (a bit blurry, but at least awake?) on San Gorgonio:
The group (unposed) on San Gorgonio:
The view from San Gorgonio: