[singlepic id=107 w=320 h=240 float=left]Stayed at Idylwild for the first night, to get used to the 5000FT escalation.

The next morning, we drove to the Ranger’s office and got a permit to go into the San Jacinto wildness.
It’s required to have the permit and later we did meet a ranger on the trail that checked out permission.

As soon as we started walking on the Deviles slide trail we noticed there’s snow everywhere. It was around 1 food deep snow. Some melted on the trail but still a lot left, especially the trail was in the shadow of the mountain. We put on the snow trac on our shoes so it was not so hard to walk.

When we reached to the saddle junction, the snow there were even more soft. We would need to wear snow shoes to walk around. I decided to return from there. We walked 5 miles and 2400FT escalation gain.