MARION MTN TRAIL TO SAN JACINTO PEAK

The stone hut just below the summit of San Jacinto Peak was
The stone hut just below the summit of San Jacinto Peak was built in the 1930's by F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corp. to provde emergency shelter to hikers caught in a storm.


A dramatically weathered Limber Pine snag in the high country of the San Jacinto Wilderness.



San Jacinto Peak
The view east from the summit of 10,804ft. Mount San Jacinto looking towards 11,499ft. Mount San Gorgonio


Fall Color McGee Canyon
A beautiful bracken fern garden on the Marion Mtn. trail displays stunning fall color.


 

COOL FACT: The elevation gain from San Gorgonio Pass to the summit of Mount San Jacinto, a distance of 10,000 feet in less than 6 miles, makes the eastern face of Mount San Jacinto one of the steepest enscarpments on the continent!
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