A day trip up Cleghorn Crest track to Cleghorn Pass in the San Bernadino National Forest and then through the San Gabriel Mountains along Angeles Crest.
I took CA138 past Silverwood Lake to the start of Cleghorn Crest.
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- Lake Silverwood
Cleghorn Crest track is an easy climb.
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- On 2N49.
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- Near Cleghorn Pass looking back down at Lake Silverwood.
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- Halfway up Cleghorn Crest 2N49.
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- Approaching Cleghorn Pass.
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- Ascending 2N49.
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- Along 2N49.
At Cleghorn Pass the track turns south down the Bailey Canyon track. There was no time to finish this track (unknown condition/difficulty) if I was to make the trip along Angeles Crest so I headed for the Rim of the World Highway, crossed the I15, stayed on the CA138, and then turned on to Angeles Crest.
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- At Cleghorn Pass.
Most of the drive along Angeles Crest is around the 2000 metres elevation. Sections of the road are regularly closed in winter.
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- Mormon Rocks named for Mormon settlers travelling from Utah to San Bernadino in 1851.
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- Near Dawson Saddle.
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- Near Dawson Saddle.
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- Edison Road
The western end of Angeles Crest drops you into La Canada Flintridge (home of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) from where I took the 210 Freeway through Pasedena, Monrovia and San Bernadino back to CA18 and up the mountain to Lake Arrowhead.
The Freeway run was long enough to reset the recently-changed oxygen sensor.
© Kim Epton 2022
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