Greg, Sonya, Sonya's friend Kathy, and I hiked up the Middle Fork Trail into Cucamonga Wilderness on Saturday. This is one of my favorite local trails and I've hiked it a few times before, but the others hadn't. Even though I'd been up here before, I had never scrambled all the way up to the waterfalls that are near the Third Stream Crossing campsite. Last time I was up there we weren't entirely comfortable scrambling over rocks so we didn't go far up the steep-walled gorge where the falls are. This time I found out that it is totally worth the extra effort, though, because they are beautiful this time of year - tons of water rushing down! The flowers are also starting to bloom at these elevations and we saw three snakes - a baby rattler, a garter snake, and one more that disappeared before we could ID it. No bighorn sheep, though I know they're up there. But we did hear Canyon Wrens as we were hiking and saw only two other hikers the entire day. In all it was a fabulous day :)
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