Monday, December 31, 2007

California Holiday, VIII: Aerial Tram to Mount San Jacinto


(Drawing by Beau.)

Saturday, after breakfast, and after bidding good-bye to Pam and Bill, we took the aerial tram up Mount San Jacinto. The tram starts at 3,000 feet and ends at 8,000 feet. Of course, it's perfectly safe, but, still, it's viscerally terrifying.

Normally, on any given day, only a handful of people are in the car for each trip. This being the week between Christmas and New Year's (and a Saturday to boot) we had to wait two hours just to board.



Once at the top, we all took a hike through the snowy landscape. We threw snowballs, built a snowman, posed for photos, and at Desert View Point, many of the cousins (and Britt) waged a good, old-fashioned snowball fight.










And thus concluded our holiday trip to California. We drove back to Los Angeles that night, and early the next morning we were on a flight home to Boston.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great fun to see the part we missed! Thank you, Robin.