San Jacinto - Cactus to Clouds Trail Conditions

I have a hike planned for next Saturday (5/20) to do the Cactus to Clouds hike up San Jacinto peak. Does anyone have any good info on latest trail conditions or know any good up to date resources on actual conditions?

Check out this website:        sanjacjon.com/  

Good source of up to date trail information on Mt. San Jacinto and vicinity, including the Cactus to Clouds trail you mention.

You can get satellite images from Caltopo. What I do is open a map with the topo, then open another tab with the satellite view. Then I click back and forth:

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=33.77,-116.68&z=13 

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=33.77,-116.68&z=13&b=sentinel_tc-0 

If you don't have a membership, it will limit how many times/views you can do per day from a given IP address.

You get the most reliable impression re snow by looking at open areas like meadows; it's common to have forested areas that look green from the sky, but are actually snow-covered on the ground.

The Skyline trail was closed recently. I don't know if that's still the case.

It looks to me like you're just going to have hassles at the end of your day with postholing and slipping in slushy snow. Microspikes don't help much in those conditions.

Fall C2C is a lot easier to plan than spring.

I would advise caution, it's a serious hike and it will be really hot at the start in Palm Springs this weekend.  Every year hikers, especially people unfamiliar with how serious desert heat can be, require rescue.  Not trying to discourage you, just please do your homework.  Here's a link to the Tram Cam, might check out the Long Valley cam (link just below the Tram cam feed).  If you have time you could always take the PS Tram to the top, scope it out a bit and do the hike the next day.

https://pstramway.com/tram-cam/