Garnet Peak Revisited

Garnet Peak, like the precious stone named after the seeds of pomegranate, is for me the jewel of Mount Laguna. Located in the Laguna Recreational Park, 60 miles east of San Diego by Intertate 8, the peak and the park could be the San Diego county's rejoinder to Riverside county's Sand to Snow National Monument. The eastern cliff of Mount Laguna drops down 6000 feet into the sea level of Anza Borrego Desert Park.
I attempted to hike Garnet Peak late January this year. There was probably a foot of snow covering what normally is a well-marked trail that is part of the more than 2,600 mile Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. 
The idea of killing two birds with one stone, an idiom that still reminds of Juliet without Romeo, was a spur of the moment decision to get to the Sunrise Highway from the Highway 79 connection via Pine Valley and Guatay roads. The goal is revisiting Garnet Peak with just me and myself along with the Glorious Holy Shi Tzu. 
Garnet Peak is Kay's favorite peak, among others I suspect. More than three ago while I was off school from building my skill in interpreting cardiac arrhythmias and while President Barack Obama was enjoying his day as a reelected president, Kay invited me to join her family to hike Garnet Peak. There I was smiling to a volunteer hiker photographer chilling on reddish rocks that could have looked like artifacts versus torsades des pointes on telemetry strips. It was a breathtaking view from the Garnet Peak. 
The Garnet Peak Trail after it branches out from the Pacific Crest Trail is not easy especially for the aging, the overweight or those who are randomly hiking. The brief Garnet Peak Trail  is one  rocky road in every sense of the word,  a no-no for those who have issues with their ankles and Achilles' tendons.
Don't  it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They  paved paradise and put up a fucking lot...
The road to hell is paved with good intensions, so they say!























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