A long day hike to Martinez Mountain in the Santa Rosas Moutains. The area Martinez is in is part of the San Bernardino National Forest. It was a long hike - 18 miles round-trip with 4200 feet total gain. The route was part trail, cross-country with bushwacking, and part use trail. It took us 11 hours including our breaks, but we think we lost at least an hour when we went off route and bushwacked part of our way up.
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KathyWing > Allen and Sooz with the summit block of Martinez behind them.
KathyWing > Looking back at the summit of Martinez.
KathyWing > View of more of the Santa Rosas including Rabbit Peak on the way down.
KathyWing > Sooz working her way through the rocks on the way down.
KathyWing > Martinez is the second bump.
KathyWing > Martinez Mountain (6560&#43;) in the Santa Rosas 12.02.06 > IMG_4613
KathyWing > We did not take one of the standard routes up - we bushwacked across to the ridge where the up arrow in and then bushwacked up the steep ridge - it wasn't fun. Once we hit the top of the ridge it was fairly easy to follow the well ducked route along the top over to Martinez. On the way down we followed the well ducked route down to where we picked up a use trial and went down the down arrow way.
Allen and Sooz with the summit block of Martinez behind them.
> Allen and Sooz with the summit block of Martinez behind them.
Allen and Sooz with the summit block of Martinez behind them.
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