A nice shady start to this deathmarch! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Arriving at Four Corners, where do we go? The quiz of the moment! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Wow! I've been coming here for a few years and never noticed this before. A wildlife camera! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Nice view to the south near the border of Camp Pendleton San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Look closely, there are people in there. The front 1/2 is way ahead of the back 1/2. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Getting toward the end of the shade, we'll be baking for a while. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Near the A in national and 2643. The creek is a dead giveaway! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Old jeep trail… getting narrow and overgrown with age… San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Oak Flats! Beautiful place with… water… cow chips… San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Moo. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Lunch Break at the flats. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Leaving the flats near 2469 San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | See camp? It's that bottom bit near the center of the pic. It's a ways down : ) San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Fastforward to the bottom and time to soak our feet. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Yeeaah buddy! Kevin (my COL1 assistant) secretly stashed some brewskis at our campsite! Sweet! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Kevin discussing the finer points of beer cooling! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Not only did Kevin bring the beer, he filtered the hell out of the water. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | That'd be me chewing the cud and chillin' by the water. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Rise and shine folks! Want to do 10 miles and a few k gain? San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Even disposable contacts suck in the woods. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Cleaning up the campsite. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Near 1563 looking westerly to our campsite. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Oi!!! The leveling off of the trail just south of 2241. Damm that was a bitch. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | The intersection before 4-corners, 1/2 will north, the other 1/2 with me on the shorter route. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | The happy group at the end!!! San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, Cleveland National Park, CA save file: small medium large | Ha-ha! The traditional lunch spot after this backpack. Don't knock over any bikes. Hell's Kitchen, Lake Elsinore, CA save file: small medium large | Bottom's up! Hell's Kitchen, Lake Elsinore, CA save file: small medium large | Frozen mugs and missing teeth, requirements to come here. Hell's Kitchen, Lake Elsinore, CA save file: small medium large |