{"id":7506,"date":"2024-03-05T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:20:21","slug":"hike-to-mt-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/hike-to-mt-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hike to Mt. Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Late winter through spring is a really good time to hike up to Mt. Wilson. Even as Chantry Flat in the Big Santa Anita Canyon continues to heal from the Bobcat Fire of 2020, don\u2019t feel like there\u2019s no good way up to Mt. Wilson. If you\u2019ve never done it, hiking up the Old Mount Wilson Trail from scenic Sierra Madre, is not a bad way to go. The canyon you\u2019ll travel through on your way up toward Manzanita Ridge is known as the Little Santa Anita Canyon. This is the original way up to \u201cWilson\u2019s Peak\u201d, named after Don Benito Wilson. The trail dates back to the 1860\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of Mt. Baldy from Manzanita Ridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Manzanita Ridge, sections of it quite true to its\u2019 name, makes up the watershed divide between the Winter Creek (to the north) and Little Santa Anita Canyon on the south. Following the ridge line up toward the Old Mount Wilson Toll Road, views out into the High Country of the San Gabriels abound. Once up on the Toll Road, you\u2019ll continue to walk along refrigerator-sized boulders that have dropped off the near vertical slopes of Mt. Harvard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you reach Martin\u2019s Saddle, the site of a once popular trail resort of the late 19th Century, views out toward the west are to be had. You\u2019re now contouring the slopes of Upper Eaton Canyon, a beautifully rugged wilderness in its\u2019 own right. Looking out across the steep and deep tributary canyons, there is from left to right, Mt. Lowe, Mt. Markham (flat-topped) and San Gabriel Peak. When the air is clear, this scene is spectacular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boulders accumulate on the Mt. Wilson Toll Road after winter storms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A view across Upper Eaton Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once up at the top, I found a picnic bench in the open-air pavilion and soaked in the sunlight for some time before heading back down. The Pacific reflected at me like an amber platter just north of the Palos Verdes peninsula. What a beautiful place to be hiking. What a beautiful place to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late winter through spring is a really good time to hike up to Mt. Wilson. Even as Chantry Flat in the Big Santa Anita Canyon continues to heal from the Bobcat Fire of 2020, don\u2019t feel like there\u2019s no good way up to Mt. Wilson. If you\u2019ve never done it, hiking up the Old Mount … Continue reading “Hike to Mt. Wilson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}