Hiking into a Storm
Jane, Scotty, and I had made plans to go hiking up the South Fork Trail to the South Fork "Slushy" Meadows, the headwaters of the Santa Ana River, in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. The original plan was to hike on Thursday, August 29, but we were in the middle of monsoon season. Massive thunderheads built up on top of Mount San Bernardino and San Gorgonio. I knew that would be extremely unsafe, so I recommended that we postpone the hike until the next week. Jane and Scotty tried to convince me to go on the hike anyway, for it will be a intense hike to deal with a storm, but I refused. Instead, we hiked to Heart Rock (which was extremely disappointing because no water was flowing, and bugs everywhere) and then walked around Lake Gregory in Crestline. A week later, on Thursday, September 5, we planned to hike if weather permitted. We chose a Thursday because that is the only day of the ...