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HWY 38 from Big Bear IMHO is one of the easiest routes to come down off the mountain or to go up. You don't have the steep drops except in a few locations like you do going down HWY 18 or 330. At least I didn't grip my steering wheel coming down or going up HWY 38 if that is any indication. HWY 38 comes down the mountain and on into Redlands once it hits the canyon floor. Pretty good road, but it goes through a lot of forest area with big trees and from what I remember from when I was out there recently a lot of dead wood. The biggest pine cones I have ever seen come off those trees. That route could be cut off easily if fire moves around the rim too far. Absolutely beautiful drive through the San Bernardino forest.

Don't know much at the route that goes down into the High Desert from Big Bear.