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Community Field Trip · April 15, 2026

Mount
San Jacinto

A day in the high country

Once a month, the Boulder Gardens community chooses somewhere beyond the sanctuary to explore together. This trip took the group up Mount San Jacinto, with complimentary tram tickets making it possible for everyone to ride together.

Boulder Gardens community members together during the Mount San Jacinto outing.
A monthly outing is partly about the destination and partly about spending a day together away from the routines of the sanctuary.
April 15, 2026Date
Mount San JacintoDestination
Monthly outingCommunity tradition
ComplimentaryTram tickets

Beyond the Sanctuary

Getting out together

Every month the group decides together on a field trip: somewhere to get out of town, experience a different landscape, and spend time with one another outside the normal rhythm of projects and responsibilities at Boulder Gardens.

For the April outing, the destination was Mount San Jacinto. Everyone in the group had complimentary tickets for the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, so the ascent itself became part of the shared experience.

The photographs here begin with the group gathering at the tram, looking out through the windows, and watching the desert terrain fall away below. More photographs from the day can be added as they are found in the archive.

Members of the group gathered together before riding the tram.
Setting out A field trip begins before the destination: gathering, waiting, and moving as a group.
Community members looking through the windows during the tram ride.
On the ascent The changing view becomes part of the experience.
Two members of the group standing together inside the aerial tram.
Traveling together The monthly trips are intentionally social as much as exploratory.
Aerial tram car suspended above the steep desert mountain landscape.
Looking down The tram reveals a scale and topography that are difficult to experience from the valley floor.
View down the tram cables across the steep mountain canyon.
Changing elevation In a short ride, the landscape shifts dramatically beneath the group.

Archive note: this page is designed to grow. Additional Mount San Jacinto photographs can be folded into the story later without changing the Community Field Trips structure.