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- South Fork Trail
- This trail, just above Poopout Hill, was the most popular entry to the San
Gorgonio Wilderness, on the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern
California. Because of its location, San Gorgonio is one of the most important
units of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is next to the
largest concentration of organization camps west of New York, all of them run
by non-profit agencies.
- For decades, most of these camps have offered a trip into San Gorgonio as the
highlight of their campers’ week, and countless young people (myself included)
had their first taste of wilderness here. This is why a local newspaper editor
once christened San Gorgonio as a “nursery wilderness.” Surely he thought this
was a metaphor, but I once met a mother on this trail pushing her baby in a
perambulator.
- These photos were taken during early November.
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