Sawmill Mountain

First attempt at the 3-2-1 challenge in conjunction with the So-Cal 6POP.   My battle buddy Ernesto and I arrived at Nordic Base at around

Not only did we complete the 3rd summit of to SoCal 6 POP, we also complete the 3, 2, 1 Challenge of Mount Piños and

We wore crampons/spikes since 90% of hike was walking on snow. We needed to use the AllTrails App to navigate since much of trail was

Started at 10am, with 46 degrees at 8300’ of elevation (no, thats not a typo).  Temps increased into the high 50s. It was a great

Trail was covered in snow (minus some patches) all the way to Sawmill. We may have lost our path a couple times but we made

Climate change created good conditions on some of the snow covered trails — much had melted, though not nearly enough. It was extremely difficult to