How to Climb, Ski, Snowboard Mount San Jacinto

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5 жыл бұрын

Basic description of backcountry ski or snow board tour on Mount San Jacinto in Southern California. Travel up San Jacinto on the Palm Springs Ariel Tramway to Long Valley at ~8400 feet. Climb to San Jacinto summit elevation 10,834 (2,420 vertical feet) and ski/board down to the tram. Includes some description of how to assess snow pack. Remember to get your wilderness permit. This video does not discuss the inherent risks of backcountry wilderness winter travel including avalanche, route finding problems, exposure and collisions. Snowboarders may have to walk a flat section through Tamarak Valley. Great ski tour but it is an uncommon event for San Jacinto to have enough snow to ski tram to summit and back.

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@geejglenn 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the vid! Well done! Looked like a blast!

@JB-rt4mx 10 ай бұрын

Great Trip, Music, you had a full gale on the summit..when I started climbing in 1979 in EBs, Poway was tiny on the way to Bouldering on Mt.Woodson from OB. Back in 1998 we had a dump like yours and climbed a 200ft 1ft thick 80 degrree Ice Tongue 3-4 ft wide on the North Face of Tahquitz. Rapped off under a huge overhang, W 5.9 W5. Glad to see San Diego representing and sharing the beauty and isolation of SoCal Mountaineering. I live in New Mexico now, the SD years were great, surfing empty Baja, N. County and Sunset Cliffs, Blacks, climb Mission Gorge, Cuyamaca, Canon Tajo, Joshua Tree, Sailing offshore racing boats Point Loma SDYC, Skiing Old Mammoth Hangmans Hollow and all cornice runs. So Cal still can be a special extreme place for those that dare leave the cities...LoL 🏞😁

@davidremillard8586 3 жыл бұрын

Super well put together video! Really helpful for planning! Subscribed!

@stampscapes 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. You guys deserved a nice dinner at the restaurant up there. I guess there's a lot more options in Palm Springs though.

@WheeliePete 5 жыл бұрын

Those clouds are really moving up there!

@Weltbummler23 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great vid

@conorsheridan2998 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@PK-gi2qh Жыл бұрын

I was hoping to see you drop the other side. North side chutes! Now that would be bad -ass!

@ClaytonMalott 3 жыл бұрын

you guys need backcountry gear

@orthopraxis235 Жыл бұрын

I did this but went straight up the face. Didn't use the saddle and didn't traverse the face. Used some pretty tricked out alpine snowshoes. Much shorter. This was right after easter 2023. Plenty of snow, one guy on the traverse yelling to me I took the harder way, but the traverse with gear on my back seemed very sketchy. Basically there were post-holed boot marks on the traverse in spaces i would have been trying to plant a snowshoe. Much easier to plant those crampon like spikes in those shoes going straight up and be able to drive the legs with full force in one directly than trying to sidehill, one wrong lean and its over...falling sideways, knees ankles all twisted and knarled. At least going straight up the face much better chance to self arrest. But really it wasn't that tricky, I was just tired by that point. Im sure there is harder stuff out there, like snow creek, but for a first try this was a big deal for me. As I was putting on my snowboard gear at the summit, a telemarker popped up and we took a run down together. Got back near dark. Snowboarding at the bottom below the 9100 foot mark is tricky, in the trees, skis would do much better. 2023 was plenty of snow all the way down to the ranger station and lower. Much of the rest of the ski down the trail is strictly toe side which sucked for a boarder but a split guy or xc or alpine ski guy could do it pretty fast. I jacked up my knee and the mountain kind of told me to get more fit and strong, but I did it, and can look up at that peak every day I see it and know I did that. Instead of saying ill do it. It's done.