Grass Mountain
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Angeles National Forest Click for map. I have been thinking I will hike Grass Mountain for a few years now. Today is the day. The trail crossing is already familiar from previous visits, but this is a new direction. Guess I will add a few more miles of PCT to my done pile, for what it is worth. It is still too early for the ~3600 through hikers starting from Mexico this year. This is northbound mile 478.2 by Halfmile's current reckoning, so it will not be quite that many when most of them turn here to find out the secret of Case de Luna down the road in Green Valley. For now, there is just one set of footsteps visible in the otherwise clean dirt of the trail ahead. A spattering of pines at my start on the PCT today. The trail will not be hidden under pine needles in another month. The trail climbs the far side of the canyon. The pines are just around the fire house and the rest is manzanita and chamise. The trail hits a utility road and I turn west along it beca