Afoot & Afield: Inland Empire - 256 Spectacular Outings in Southern California

The Inland Empire-the vast region east of Los Angeles encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino Counties-brims with an immense range of environments, from cactus-studded deserts to snow-capped summits, from shady forests and sparkling lakes to lush palm oases. It's truly a hiker's paradise.

List of contents

1 Mount Baldy Area

1.1 Mount Baldy Loop

1.2 San Antonio Falls

1.3 North Backbone Traverse

1.4 Bear Flats

1.5 Bear Ridge

1.6 Lookout Mountain

1.7 Ice House Canyon

1.8 Cedar Glen

1.9 Ontario Peak

1.10 Cucamonga Peak

1.11 Three T's

1.12 Baldy Nine Peaks Challenge

1.13 Iron Mountain

1.14 San Antonio Ridge

1.15 Ice House Saddle From Lytle Creek

1.16 Etiwanda Peak

1.17 Bonita Falls

Upland-Claremont-San Dimas Hills

2.1 Sunset Peak

2.2 Sunset Ridge

2.3 Stoddard Peak

2.4 Frankish Peak

2.5 Etiwanda Falls

San Bernardino Mountains: West

3.1 Deep Creek Hot Springs

3.2 San Andreas Overlook

3.3 Heart Rock

3.4 Pinnacles

3.5 Metate Trail

3.6 Little Bear Creek

3.7 Deep Creek

3.8 Fisherman's Camp

3.9 Deep Creek Canyoneering

3.10 Holcomb Crossing Trail Camp

3.11 Cox Creek

3.12 Heaps Peak Arboretum

3.13 Exploration Trail

3.14 Little Green Valley

San Bernardino Mountains: Big Bear Lake Area

4.1 Grays Peak

4.2 Delamar Mt.

4.3 Cougar Crest + Bertha Peak

4.4 North Shore Trail

4.5 Woodland Trail

4.6 Gold Mountain

4.7 Sugarloaf Mt.

4.8 Wild Horse Creek

4.9 Grand View Pt.

4.10 Castle Rock

4.11 Skyline Trail

4.12 Seven Oaks Trail

4.13 Champion Lodgepole

4.14 Siberia Creek from Big Bear

4.15 Siberia Creek from Snow Valley

4.16 Siberia Creek from Seven Oaks

4.17 Butler Peak

4.18 Granite Peaks

San Bernardino Mountains: San Gorgonio Wilderness

5.1 San Gorgonio via Vivian Creek

5.2 Little San Gorgonio

5.3 Galena Peak

5.4 Big Falls

5.5 Alger Creek Trail

5.6 Momyer-Falls Creek Loop

5.7 Aqueduct Trail

5.8 Mountain Home Flats

5.9 San Bernardino Peak

5.10 Ponderosa and Whispering Pines Nature Trails

5.11 John's Meadow

5.12 San Bernardino Peak via Forsee Creek

5.13 South Fork Meadows

5.14 San Gorgonio via Dollar and Dry Lake

5.15 Jenks Lake

5.16 Santa Ana River Trail

5.17 Aspen Grove

5.18 Fish Creek Meadow

5.19 San Gorgonio via Fish Creek

5.20 San Bernardino Nine Peaks Challenge

5.21 Yucaipa Ridge traverse

Mojave Desert

6.1 Mormon Rocks Interpretive Trail

6.2 East Ord Mountain

6.3 Owl Canyon

Urban Parks

7.1 Pacific Electric Trail

7.2 Prado Lake

7.3 Mt. Rubidoux

7.4 Box Springs Park Two Trees Trail

7.5 Box Spring Mountains Skyline Trail

7.6 Box Springs Towers Loop

7.7 Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park

7.8 Olive Mountain

7.9 Terri Peak Loop / Bernasconi Hills

7.10 South Hills Preserve Jedi Trail

7.11 San Timoteo Nature Sanctuary

7.12 Oakmont Trail

7.13 Wildwood Canyon

7.14 Zanja Peak Loop

7.15 Crafton Hills Grape Ave Loop

7.16 Crafton Hills Traverse

7.17 El Dorado Ranch Park

7.18 Bogart Park

7.19 Simpson Park Hemet

Santa Rosa Ecological Preserve

8.1 Granite Loop

8.2 Sylvan Meadows

8.3 Oak Tree Trail

8.4 Los Santos Trail

8.5 Vernal Pool

8.6 Historic Adobes

8.7 Santa Rosa Plateau Loop

San Jacinto National Monument

9.1 Black Mountain

9.2 Indian Mountain

9.3 San Jacinto via Fuller Ridge

9.4 San Jacinto River, North Fork

9.5 Seven Pines Trail

9.6 San Jacinto via Marion Ridge

9.7 Panorama Point

9.8 Webster Trail

9.9 Idyllwild Nature Center

9.10 Suicide Rock

9.11 Tahquitz Rock

9.12 Ernie Maxwell Trail

9.13 Skunk Cabbage Meadow

9.14 Tahquitz Peak via Saddle Junction

9.15 Caramba

9.16 Strawberry / Saddle Loop

9.17 Idyllwild to Tramway Loop

9.18 San Jacinto from Idyllwild

9.19 Tahquitz Peak via South Ridge

9.20 Desert View Loop

9.21 Long, Round, and Tamarack Valleys

9.22 Cornell Peak

9.23 San Jacinto from Aerial Tramway

9.24 Seven Peaks of the San Jacinto Wilderness

Desert Divide

10.1 Antsell Rock

10.2 Apache Peak

10.3 Palm View Peak

10.4 Cedar Spring

10.5 Northern Desert Divide

10.6 Desert Divide Nine Peaks Challenge

10.7 Thomas Mountain

10.8 Cahuilla Mountain

10.9 Hurkey Creek

10.10 South Fork San Jacinto River

Palm Springs and the Indian Canyons

11.1 South Lykken Trail

11.2 North Lykken Trail

11.3 Museum Trail

11.4 Cactus to Clouds

11.5 Tahquitz Canyon

11.6 Desert Angel

11.7 Vargas Palms

11.8 Snow Creek

11.9 Andreas Canyon

11.10 Maynard Mine

11.11 Murray Canyon

11.12 Lower Palm Canyon

11.13 Fern Canyon

11.14 Palm Canyon Pines to Palms

11.15 Jo Pond Trail

Santa Rosa National Monument

12.1 Garstin Trail

12.2 Araby Trail

12.3 Jane's Hoffbrau

12.4 Murray Hill

12.5 Magnesia Spring Canyon

12.6 Bump and Grind Trail

12.7 Art Smith Trail

12.8 Randall Henderson Trail

12.9 Living Desert and Eisenhower Peak

12.10 Bear Creek Canyon Ridge

12.11 Boo Hoff Loop

12.12 Guadalupe Trail

12.13 Stone Sentinel

12.14 Sawmill Trail

12.15 Horsethief Creek

12.16 Cactus Spring Trail

12.17 Martinez Mountain

12.18 Pinyon Trail

12.19 Rabbit Peak from the Coachella Valley

12.20 Rabbit and Villager Peaks

12.21 Rabbit Peak from Clark Lake

Colorado Desert

13.1 Painted and Ladder Canyon Loop

13.2 Big Split Rock Canyon

13.3 Neverending Canyon

13.4 Utah Canyon

13.5 The Grottos

13.6 Black Butte

13.7 Chuckwalla Mountain

13.8 Stepladder Mountain

13.9 Mopah

Desert Preserves

14.1 McCallum Grove

14.2 Pushawalla Palms Canyon

14.3 Moon Country

14.4 Big Morongo Preserve

14.5 Pipes Canyon

14.6 Sawtooth Loop in : Pioneertown Preserve

14.7 Oak Glen Preserve

14.8 Whitewater Canyon to Mission Creek

14.9 Whitewater Canyon Ridge Loop

14.10 Whitewater Preserve to San Gorgonio Overlook

14.11 Dos Palmas Preserve

Joshua Tree National Park: Main Park

15.1 Window Rock Loop

15.2 Boy Scout Trail

15.3 Willow Hole

15.4 Wonderland of Rocks Traverse

15.5 Barker Dam Trail

15.6 Garrett's Arch

15.7 Wall Street Mine

15.8 Negro Hill

15.9 Mt. Minerva Hoyt

15.10 Quail Mountain

15.11 Lost Horse Mine and Mountain

15.12 Mount Inspiration

15.13 Mt. Inspiration from Coachella Valley

15.14 Ryan Mountain

15.15 Queen Mountain

15.16 Desert Queen Mine

15.17 Skull Rock Nature Trail

15.18 Split Rock

15.19 Eagle Cliffs

15.20 Malapai Hill

15.21 Bernard and Little Berdoo Peaks

15.22 Arch Rock

15.23 Joshua Mountain

15.24 California Riding and Hiking Trail

Joshua Tree National Park: Black Rock & Covington

16.1 Black Rock Canyon Panaorama Loop Trail

16.2 Eureka Peak

16.3 West Side Loop

16.4 High View Nature Trail

16.5 Covington Crest

16.6 Covington Loop

Joshua Tree National Park: Indian Cove

17.1 Indian Cove Nature Trail

17.2 Gunsight Loop

17.3 Rattlesnake Canyon

17.4 Fortynine Palms Oasis

Joshua Tree National Park: East

18.1 Pinto Mtn

18.2 Fried Liver Wash

18.3 Mastadon Peak

18.4 Lost Palms Oasis

18.5 Eagle Mtn

18.6 Munsen Cayon

18.7 Carey's Castle

18.8 Spectre Peak

Mojave National Preserve

19.1 Kelso Dunes

19.2 Hole in the Wall

19.3 Barber Peak Loop

19.4 Mid-Hills to Hole-in-the-Wall

19.5 Table Top Mountain

19.6 Mitchel Cavern

19.7 Edgar Peak

19.8 Old Dad Mountain

19.9 Lava Tubes

19.10 Teutonia Peak

19.11 Kessler Peak

19.12 Fort Piute

19.13 Caruthers Canyon

19.14 New York Mountain

19.15 Clark Mountain

19.16 Castle Peaks

Mojave Trails National Monument

20.1 Afton Canyon

20.2 Sheephole Mountain

20.3 Pisgah Lava Tubes

20.4 Amboy Crater

20.5 Cadiz Dunes

About the author

David Harris is the Harvey S. Mudd Professor of Engineering Design at Harvey Mudd College and the author of Terrific engineering textbooks and hiking guidebooks. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering and his M.Eng. and S.B. degrees in EECS and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has designed microprocessors at Intel Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Broadcom, and his passion for chips is reflected in his books on the subject. He began his hiking adventures as a wee tot on his father's back and has been exploring the mountains and deserts ever since. Now, his own three boys are frequent companions on these trips.

Summary

The Inland Empire, with its mountain, foothill, valley, and desert recreational opportunities, is a hiker's paradise.

Afoot & Afield: Inland Empire describes more than 250 noteworthy hikes, ranging from easy to very strenuous, in this comprehensive hiking guide to the length and breadth of the Inland Empire. These hikes explore Southern California's three tallest mountains; the stark beauty of the high desert, including Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve; as well as trails that wind through urban and regional parks. Each hike is shown on custom-created maps that also include GPS waypoints. The maps alone are worth the price of the book.

Product details

• Authors: David Harris
• Publisher: Wilderness press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780899979571
• ISBN: 978-0-89997-957-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Afoot & Afield; Afoot & Afield
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Travel > Travel guides; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Activities, California, HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living, SPORTS & RECREATION / Hiking, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks