May 16, 2022 Hike from the junction of the Devil's Chair trail to the Burkhart Saddle
May 16, 2022
Wind < 5mph
Temperature < 82F
Max. Elevation 6,993 feet
Elevation Gain 3656 feet
Junction of the Devil's Chair trial to Burkhart saddle, total miles 14.39 miles (round trip).
Majority of the area was hit by the Bobcat fire in September of 2020, areas lower in elevation where was more underlying brush were hit the hardest. The first mile of the trail a majority of the Coulter and Jeffrey pines were burned completely with no regrowth on any of the branches. Round-leaf bush mallow and Poodle-dog bush are prevalent, with small seedlings of Ceanothus vestitus, Fremontodendron californium the dominant chaparral. Dozens of seedling pines were seen along the trail. In the canyon areas Canyon Live Oaks were crown sprouting. Linanthus concinnus, San Gabriel Linanthus, a rarely sighted flower was very common with thousands of individual plants on the hillsides, preferring sunny talus rocky hillsides.