Last
morning at Fred and Donna Pannebaker's,
breakfast and a
fond farewell -- bound with Carol to the land of John Curtis Browning --
the long way,
via the
Rim of the World,
again
past
Strawberry
Peak,
then
Heaps,
Keller,
contouring around
to
Big Bear,
the Fawnskin Shore towards the
Visitor's Center.
Astoundingly, no books,
so on to a
resupply stop,
then up the
Onyx Grade to the
Summit, and
down into Santa Anna Canyon, the Barton Flats Area,
Angelus Oaks,
curving round to
Mill
Creek,
lower
to
the
Ranger Station,
Yucaipa for
financial betterment,
making arrangements to stay at Highland Springs Resort.
Is this a good idea?
The weather seems to think not, with a veritable Biblical monsoonal downpour: thunder / lighning / wind / hail so big as to seemingly break windshield / flash flood fording (don't try this out, kids) both across and seemingly amidst the course of the stream,
finally
to the
Inn.
An historically /
photographically interesting situation,
though with some
compromises vis a vis the
room and
bar,
yet the
general environs
and
please.
Out
in
clearing
skies,
leaving
the
general
San Gorgonio Pass
area,
for a
rendezvous
with
JCB,
down to San Bernardino Black Angus,
and a fine time is had by all,
returning late.
Another blistering high 108 up north (tying with yesterday as the hottest of the year,
and the day before this as second hottest -- 107 -- tying with June 30... 14 days in the 100's, 48 90+, 85 80-or-more):
Crestline 79, Highland Springs 96...
yet with all the sudden inclemency, only .01 inch recorded...
