Waterman Mountain
Twin Peaks
Winston Ridge
Mount Williamson

12/19/03

Notes:

The Waterman/Twin Peaks trail is very nice.  The Waterman trail is apparently
a loop trail.  The slopes are fairly gentle so I ended up going partly cross
country, partly on trail, and party on old dirt roads.  There seems to be
a whole network of old (probably logging) roads on Waterman Moutain.  The
trails are gentle and wind their way through pleasant forest.

Hoping to get both Winston Ridge and Mount Williamson done before I ran
out of daylight I pushed hard on those two.

GPS Data:

Mt Williamson - GPS says 4.54 mi RT (HPS instructions say 3)
Waterman & Twin - 9.43 mi RT (HPS says 11 mi)
Winston Ridge: 4.39 mi RT (HPS says 2.5 mi)

Total Mileage: 18.36 mi RT
Gain: 700 + 3200 + 300 + 1560 = 5760' Total Gain

HPS distances for Winston Ridge and Mt Williamson must be wrong.  Even if 
you draw the track to Winston Ridge you'll get 2.15 mi or more one way.  
It also says a gain of 400' which is wrong.  It's 400 in + 300 on the return.

Driving Time from Cloudburst summit to Mt Williamson TH = 20 mins?
Driving Time from Williamson trailhead back to I210 = 60 mins
Driving Time from Williamson TH back home (via 210 & I5) = 2 hrs 35 mins

Log:

08:29am - Departed Waterman trailhead (accross from Buckhorn CG entrance)
09:26am - Reached Waterman summit
09:40am - Departed summit, headed downhill to catch up with Twin trail
10:58am - Reached Twin Peaks east summit
01:04pm - Arrived back at Waterman trailhead

01:14pm - Departed Winston trailhead (Cloudburst Summit)
02:01pm - Reached Winston Ridge summit
02:11pm - Departed summit
02:57pm - Returned to trailhead

03:10pm - Departed Mt Williamson trailhead (up the PCT)
04:26pm - Reached Mt Williamson summit
04:41pm - Departed summit
05:30pm - Returned to trailhead