Escape the heat with a mountain picnic

Chris McCraw knows just what to do when it gets hot in the valley in the late summer. He drives south up the Grapevine to the cool shade of the Jeffery Pines on Mount Pinos. A 20-degree temperature difference is not uncommon between Bakersfield and the Chula Vista Parking Lot at the end of end of the Mt. Pinos Highway.

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