{"id":7674,"date":"2024-04-09T06:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2024-04-13T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T17:57:32","slug":"snowshoe-wrightwoods-table-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/snowshoe-wrightwoods-table-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowshoe Wrightwood\u2019s Table Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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9,399\u2032 high Mt. Baden-Powell\u2019s massif dominates the southwest skyline from Table Mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Joanie and I got out for a great afternoon of snowshoeing up on Wrightwood\u2019s Table Mountain about a week and a half ago.   Since then,  more storms have dropped even more of the precious powder on our local mountains.   Whether you like to cross-country ski or snowshoe, it\u2019s a fantastic time to be out amongst our high country peaks, canyons and forests!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inset of the Trails of Wrightwood \u2013 Big Pines map. The area we went snowshoeing is depicted as Table Mountain (with campground symbol) at an elevation of 7,200\u2032. The west end of Wrightwood appears in the lower right corner of image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Table Mountain is 7,516\u2032 high and super easy to get to from Wrightwood.  Just drive.  You\u2019re only looking at four miles from our village center.  Make sure to turn off to the right on Table Mountain Road when you arrive at the three way split in the roads at Big Pines.  Table Mountain Campground is where we did our snowshoeing on a quiet Friday, where we seemed to have the place to ourselves.  The wind had sculpted the snow into pristine dunes along the gently sloping ridge top that the extensive campground straddles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joanie seems to almost float atop the powder on the sunny slopes of Table Mountain!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All the campsites were, of course, hidden under the snowy mantle, with just the picnic tabletops presenting themselves as a bit of a depth gauge.  Most of the time, snow depth was around 24\u2033 and in places well over three feet.  The windward sides of the mammoth white fir and Ponderosas were coated in sparkling icicles that fell like shards of glass in the wind gusts that came out of the southwest.  Mt. Baden-Powell kept constant watch over us from across the great gulf of the East Fork of the San Gabriel River.   The Mojave Desert off to the north was a mosaic of tans, yellow sands and the right-angled patchwork of green winter crops scattered here and there.  It looked and felt warmer down there.  And high up on Table Mountain, that day was to be one of cobalt blue skies, bright white snows, wind and evergreens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A small wind-bent snowy pine and Chris have a little visit amongst Table Mountain\u2019s frozen forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FEBRUARY 20, 2019 BY CHRIS KASTEN Joanie and I got out for a great afternoon of snowshoeing up on Wrightwood\u2019s Table Mountain about a week and a half ago.   Since then,  more storms have dropped even more of the precious powder on our local mountains.   Whether you like to cross-country ski or snowshoe, it\u2019s a … Continue reading “Snowshoe Wrightwood\u2019s Table Mountain”<\/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":[215,167,29,302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-nature","category-outdoors","category-wrightwood-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","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=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}