Last time I was up there in the San Berdoos, the Santa Ana river road was closed because work crews were repairing the last damaged section of the route. Yesterday, the route was finally completely restored to what it was like prior to the big spring storm flood of 2019. It was nice, but at the same time it was a little sad because I lost my fun riverbed crossing. Also, because the road and the bridge were restored, there were a few cars parked down that way, with their occupants out enjoying access to the river. The weather was very nice up there...getting cooler all the time. It was pretty sunny in the morning, but by late afternoon, a lot of clouds had moved in. I spent the early part of my day exploring forgotten routes that I had discovered on Google Earth the night before. most of those were dead end, but still fun to ride, and very scenic. The latter part of the ride went onto Sand Canyon, Skyline and down Clark's Grade before hitting 1N04 eastbound. Sad to see that they had to widen and flatten that route due to the wild fire, but it had to be done in case the firefighters had to get equipment in to hold the line...if the fire had spread that far north. Luckily, that never happened. From 1N04, I hit 1N45 to check out the final road and bridge repairs, before heading back to Heart Bar. It was only 3:30, but between the shorter hours and the clouds, it seemed much later. Also, it starts to get pretty nippy in the afternoon, as night time temperatures easily dip into the 30s lately. There were a few campers in the campground, but I wouldn't have wanted to be any of them right now, since camp fires are prohibited. That makes for a cold, cold evening in camp, for sure. The sunset was crazy last night. This wasn't the best part of it, but it was the best I was going to get while driving home on the freeway.
