Wednesday we left Borrego Springs and drove up to Palm Springs to the Palm Springs Aerial Tram. This Tramway is considered an engineering marvel featuring the world’s largest rotating tram cars!
Valley station starts the adventure with the elevation of 2,643’ and your destination at Mountain station has an elevation of 8,516’. Mountain station has 2 restaurants (one self-serve) and one cocktail bar. The Mount San Jacinto State Park is just behind the tram station providing backpacking and hiking opportunities. The temperature change from Palm Springs to Mountain Station is 30-40 degrees! There was still several inches of snow on the north side of the mountain!
We had hoped to get some night photography from the mountain top of Palm Springs, but the last tram down was at 6pm…so we only got some dusk shots.
Enjoy the video!
Misc. Updates:
We are deep into 2022 planning. What we know at this point, we will be leaving Borrego Springs 3/14 and will spend the spring on the California Coast. We will then head to Yosemite NP and down the East side to Reno, and Lake Tahoe to eventually traverse Nevada to Utah. We have plans for a backpacking trip or two in Utah! July we will be in Colorado for the first 2 weeks and then heading to Glacier NP and Canadian Rockies for the month of August! Of course everything can change! 😳
