Caliente Wilderness

Pacific Crest Trail

Distance: 12 miles round trip (out and back) Hiking Time: 7 hours Elevation Gain/Loss 1700′/1700′ Difficulty: Moderately strenuous

This Section of the Pacific Crest Trail, through lands formerly considered for offical wilderness status. From Lost Valley road walk up the abandoned road (a lateral link to the PCT) 0.5 mile to the point where the true PCT joins from the right. Continue uphill on the sameold roadbed, some-what monotonously, 1 mile father to the point where the newer, narrower PCT tread diverges right, Make the right turn (left descends to a seasonal spring).