EISPIRATEN

If I remember correctly the Station fire behavior was quite different, it seemed to hoover in each area and slowly meander and spread out like an unstoppable blob or amoeba. This fire has exploded with lightning speed and advanced like gunpowder. I wonder what's happening in the interior of the burn...

Thank you, Sean. That's a great list. Don't forget Mt. Vesuvius for the pyromaniacs at Mt. Lowe. I think the actual identity of Mt. Washburn has yet to be definitively corroborated either way - all brochure maps, contemporary news articles and trail accounts I've found would point to it being furthe...

Why does everything smell like hickory-smoked beef jerky all of a sudden?

6:00 AM - Fire in Santa Anita Canyon seen from Mt. Wilson. I think that's white horse peak in the middle of the flames in your image - fire eating its way a bit lower into the east fork santa anita - the archive images show a sudden drop in activity shortly after that image so maybe they dropped so...

Someone has compiled a time lapse of the first 20 hours or so of the fire:

The morning after. Looks like it didn't progress much further down canyon overnight. Hopefully the wind won't pick up too much today.

The prominent fireball is in front of Clamshell/Rankin/Monrovia summits and appears to be moving down along the East Fork basin headwall.

Note how the moon presides over the scene...

Yes, appears to be in the upper reaches of the East Fork - Not sure if it's crossed upper clamshell road but might be approaching White Horse Peak - bad news for Chantry and vicinity

I stand corrected, embers picking back up with a reflective glow in the sky towards the left/north side and spots visibly further down Monrovia ridge to the right/south - it's like a bomb went off.

So the recent thread on "who was Tom Sloan" got me thinking of the ephemeral nature of the people's interactions with the San Gabriel Mountains. It's maybe not unlike Southern California itself in that it seems to completely remake itself and start over again each decade. I think the trail...

What a difference a day makes. Cooler temps seem to have slowed it down a lot:

RIP that one weed grow south of Twin Peaks

And the various ones in the canyons just north of Twin Peaks.

Another valley of fire hellscape tonight:
The fishing club cabin is probably a gonner for sure - looks like Clamshell or Rankin is keeping it to the east for now...

Sorry, I meant the caltopo map, not inciweb.

On inciweb what do the yellow vs. red marks mean?

At this point, Big Santa Anita Canyon and Monrovia Canyon could be in jeopardy.

Didn't burn in Station Fire, so plenty of fuel.

You can follow the progress in the archive of towercam images. In the afternoon it split into a north and south front: Bobcat043.jpg Then around sundown the flames started to show themselves: Bobcat046.jpg And then it started to look more like the crack of doom: Bobcat057.jpg And now it looks like s...

If I'm not mistaken, seems to be ascending Glenn Canyon towards Monrovia Peak as well. For reference, I think the lower part of Cogswell-Rincon-RedBox connector road is visible sloping upwards just right of the dam - looks like the smoke is coming out of the canyons behind that ridge. BobcatFire2.jpg

Looks like it's on the northeast side of Cogswell Reservoir not far from the dam:

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/I/wilson-e-mobo-c.html

SGBob - Rankin peak from Rincon Redbox? or whatever's above spring camp

We're looking at 5058 from the North? That's Little Bear Canyon in front of it? Yes, my view is from the northwest with little bear canyon in the foreground below revealing the rocky northern side - the most common view of 5058 is from due west as you drive up ACH along the arroyo - or from brown m...

Who was it that reportedly found Vasquez's pistol in there?

David R wrote: ↑Peak 5,058 (I was also there) and NW ridge to Williamson. Pass to Sean.

Dang, nailed it! - but NE ridge. ?

Also a bunch of recently downed trees between switzer picnic and switzer falls

Okay, I'm game. Thanks!
Here are two, just for fun.
Location number one:

Location number two:

That saddle where upper dark canyon trail meets grizzly flats road is like a case study in invasive total takeover and domination - that stuff is pinching out the trail on both sides - However, I'm always confused between the names Scotch broom and Spanish broom and which one is the greater threat -...

Elwood wrote: ↑Dima for the win! Your turn. The peak is (maybe-not-so) obviously Big Iron and hi Taco.

"hi Taco" is definitely my favorite peak in the entire range.

Do you think the downed trees are burn related, weather cycle related or other? Maybe long drought followed by a big winter followed by who knows what... I've been seeing a lot of mature trees come down along the Gabrieleno Trail in the Arroyo, some burned, some not. Also quite a bit of rockfall - m...

Brennan also mentions a plane crash in the same page linked above!

This description mentions the hanging cabin and cites John Robinson, maybe he mentions it in his book on san gabriel mines? Not sure if there's any original source documentation to back it up:

http://www.dankat.com/advents/saucer.htm

The main tiers of the falls can be seen rather nicely from a few spots along the sunset trail system on the other side of the canyon. Looks like a pretty dicey climb up the left side from that video! I've climbed into Saucer branch by gaining the right ridge about a hundred yards away from the falls...