For our afternoon we decided we would drive to Palm Springs and take the revolving tram up the Chino Canyon to the Mount San Jacinto Sate Park and do some hiking. The tram ride up the canyon is really fun. It's a 12 minute ride up through the canyon up to the top. You travel up 6500 ft to arrive to the top at 8516 ft. As you travel up the tram rotates 360 degrees so everyone has great views. We hiked out one of the trails arriving at the 3rd lookout point just about 1PM. It's there we had some lunch sitting on the side of the mountain overlooking the town of Palm Springs and all of the valley. From our vantage point we could see the Salton Sea some 50+ miles away. New life birds included Mountain Bluebird, Pinyon Jay and Mountain Chickadee. Sitting eating my sandwich I saw Ravens flying by and in a Jeffrey Pine Tree just by me was a White-breasted Nuthatch feeding.
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| Coming up the Chino Canyon - View out the tram |
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| View down into the valley |
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| Dawn & Jim enjoying the day |
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| Stellar's Jay |
For our afternoon we decided we would drive to Palm Springs and take the revolving tram up the Chino Canyon to the Mount San Jacinto Sate Park and do some hiking. The tram ride up the canyon is really fun. It's a 12 minute ride up through the canyon up to the top. You travel up 6500 ft to arrive to the top at 8516 ft. As you travel up the tram rotates 360 degrees so everyone has great views. We hiked out one of the trails arriving at the 3rd lookout point just about 1PM. It's there we had some lunch sitting on the side of the mountain overlooking the town of Palm Springs and all of the valley. From our vantage point we could see the Salton Sea some 50+ miles away. New life birds included Mountain Bluebird, Pinyon Jay and Mountain Chickadee. Sitting eating my sandwich I saw Ravens flying by and in a Jeffrey Pine Tree just by me was a White-breasted Nuthatch feeding.
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