This one of the best hikes in all America. This is the easy way. One takes the tram to 8500 feet and hikes 5 miles 2300 elevation gain to the rocky summit. Excellent views for 100s of miles in all directions. Today was more hazy than normal. Views looking 10000 feet down in a brief 4 miles to the San Andreas fault. Also great views of the Santa Rosa mountains to the southwest. There's much fir, cedar, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, lodgepole pine and some chaparral up here. Trail in good condition. Great weather...only got down to 58 F at the campsite. Takes to 72 hours to adjust to the low oxygen. As Muir called it, "truly a view from the altar of the gods!" Worth doing over and over again in other routes. The tram is interesting in itself (Palm Springs aerial tramway).
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