Sunrise Highway

The Sunrise Highway is the place thousands of San Diego's people head for when there is snow in the mountains. It snowed on Tuesday and Wednesday and some on Thursday too. We drove up hoping to see snow in Pine Valley but the snow was gone. It must have rained over night. So we drove up to the Sunrise Highway. There was snow along to road and on the hills. Lots of cars parked along the roads where parking is allowed and people with small children playing in the snow. We stopped at a lodge and had lunch. The lunch choices were skimpy. Grilled cheese and hamburgers. The price was high. Oh well!

We were going to head back to Pine Valley but Jackie mentioned pie so we drove toward Julian. The Julian Pie Company has some wonderful pies.

Years ago the Sunrise Highway had a section of road cut into the side of Mount Laguna that over looked the desert down below. Thirty years or more ago that streatch of road was deemed unsafe for auto traffic and the road was by passed and closed. I miss being able to travel that section of road. This is a view that shows the closed road and some of the desert view.

It looks narrow and like cars couldn't travel over it but once-upon a time we did. Then I took a photo of the view toward the desert. I think the snow covered mountains are the San Jacinto Mountains.

We took a side trip to Cuyamaca Lake and then headed back toward Julian.

Cuyamaca Lake is man made. When we lived in Ramona in the 1970s we often took our children fishing there. Lots of fun.

Julian was crowded for a Friday. Probably lots of people looking for snow. Last year we found snow in Julian and I got some nice photos. We drove down to Santa Ysabel to buy the pies and then headed home.