Thanks Sitar, I think we get the best of both worlds, terrain and weather wise. On the Baja side there’s a lot of not-developed terrain to explore, on the Cal side there’s lots of miles of marked and mapped trails. Even though in the summer it gets pretty hot here (100-110F even in the mountains), we also get snow and rain (what makes things even more fun sometimes) and plenty of good weather in the fall, winter and spring.
I already spotted a couple of very interesting threads, I’ll check them out this evening and leave my comments (saw that “are 26” dead?” thread
).