This was an HPS hike led by Dave Comerzan.

The trail from Dripping Springs campground is lovely--nice and clear--all the way to the turn-off for the Agua Tibia summit. The short trail to the summit, though, is a brushy mess. Wear gloves, long pants and long sleeves and tough it out.

Although our hiking day's weather started out well, the cloud cover was quite low, and there was lots of dew along the way, so we were all wet from the knees down at the turn-off. The short jaunt to the summit left us soaking wet all over. Since it was cold, wet and cloudy, with no chance that the sun would pop out and warm us up, we (wisely) aborted a planned continuation to Eagle Crag, which would have been miserable and potentially dangerous.

Since the hike turned out to be 16 miles rather than the planned 26 miles, I hopped in my car, drove an hour to Palomar State Park, and hiked up to Boucher Hill. After a long drive from L.A. in heavy traffic, I wanted to get at least one HPS peak today!