The backside was mostly a moonscape. (And a vast difference between the tunnel of vegetation that existed before the fire.

The terrain transitioned abruptly from burnt chaparral to burnt pine forest. The loam of dried dead pine needles was quite slippery in places.

I was pleased as I spotted this first stand of live pines that had escaped the fire.

The water sign and nearby flagging survived the fire. (Interesting that it never got hot enough here to melt the flagging)

Passing through a graveyard of dead young pine trees. The pines were mostly still standing but one assumes that the next big winter storm is going to cause a lot of deadfalls.

The fire had actually improved conditions on most of the backside trail, as all of the larger downed trees were either gone or reduced. The scenery took quite a hit tho.

Looking back at the slope of pines that had been bypassed by the fire.

More skeletons. (Traversing this section in the winter a few years back)

I was somewhat happy to see this section. These down logs have been a pain in the ass to climb over for most of a decade.