10 miles of hiking • 3000' elevation gain •
After a week in SoCal, I was anxious to get back out on the trail. Desert hiking is fine in small doses but rattlers, tarantulas, and scorpions aren't really my thing. Today was more to my liking -- rain, sleet, snow, with splashes of sunshine in between. Unfortunately, clouds rolled in along with heavy snow as I made my way down to the point so no views. Dusky grouse with their whoop, whoop, awhoop, whoop mating calls didn't seemed to mind the snow though. I heard at least 4 or 5 different ones calling as I hiked down the 401 trail.
