EISPIRATEN

During the scouting mission two weeks ago I ran down the ACH past the Woodwardia canyon bridge. I saw a nice waterfall below, and today I came back to check it out. From the bridge: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/2024-01--Woodwardia-Upper-Dark-Canyon/R0004911.jpg?variant=medium2 I w...

Nice! I've been in that area years ago to summit Redrock mountain benchmark (with tekewin, Sean and Hiker Girl). Do you know what happens if you keep going East past the saddle instead of heading South like you did? It's passable to Lake Hughes rd? By the way, the Orogenesis trail will pass through ...

Nice! So you've done all the approaches now, right? Is this the "good" one, with the bike and everything?

I think all the bumps over there are exactly the same. At least that's how I remember them!

Sadly, that housing was unsalvageable. Replaced that and the corresponding one on the other side. They're all < a year old now. Bike good as new!

They blow stuff up over there!

So apparently Red's Shortcut is described in some canyoneer routes, under the name "Twin Canyon Trail". For instance Brennen's "CCC canyon" page. That would explain why it still exists, and why it gets at least some minimal maintenance.

Tom Kenney wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:21 pm Wow! I've seen some of your fellows posting on TrailForks the past couple years...crikey! Dig the format, almost a geocaching thing.

Come ride the next one!

I'm looking at the map; where's this? Is the class 3 section between the peak at 2880 directly west to the trail at ~ 2400?

I just biked the LA tourist race. It's a race through the local mountains that starts/ends at a bike shop in Burbank. There's no predefined route: you're instead given a list of checkpoints to hit in any order and using any route that you like. People then end up with a wide variety of routes. Here'...

I just think it isn't very interesting. There are zero trees. It connects to Brown Mountain fire road, which also isn't very interesting. If you're coming from Oakwilde to Brown Mountain peak, it would be a good connector, but that's about it.

I'm doing a bike race in a few days. As part of the route planning I just went to check on the conditions of a few routes around Oakwilde. Here's what I found. First I wanted to see the condition of Red's Shortcut. This is a connector I've been to several times, none recently . It was also described...

RE: the flick, true story, guy forges land grant deed, he and wife leverage to take over nearly all of Arizona territory. One of the best Vincent Price flicks, and a great non-stock western. I watched it! Thanks for the tip. I kinda think the description of the real events is more interesting than ...

This report cracks me up. I had to do some digging to get even the slightest idea of where you went I'm guessing that Pickens is one of the bumps along the road from the fire station to Mt Lukens? Which one?

There was a problem with the previews of some images showing up sideways or upside-down. I just fixed it, and all the previews AND downloaded images should now look right. If it's still broken, or if you now have new problems uploading images, PLEASE tell me.

Nice trip! I haven't gone that way for a year or so. By the way, there used to be a level trail from Telephone Flat to Idlehour camp. It was built by one of the cabin owners in the 1930s or 1940s, I think. I tried finding the Telephone Flat half of it a few times, but it appears to be completely gon...

Nice! I've wondered about that ridge above Royal Gorge. Can you see down into the river from there? Is there any sense you're above a "gorge"?

Lots of guy lines for old towers. Some very old beer cans. Some very old juice cans (both apple and orange). A pretty sweet OLD metal canteen. Nobody has been up there for a long time.

dima wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:40 pm Ah crap. I thought I got everything, but apparently I missed this. Can one of yall do some checks to see if I missed anything else from the past month? Going to grab this one now.

I found a few missing posts, and re-added them. Should be good now.

Wait. Aren't you a spammer, Rubio?

I'll check it out!

Ah crap. I thought I got everything, but apparently I missed this. Can one of yall do some checks to see if I missed anything else from the past month? Going to grab this one now.

The tapatalk board is still there, but it's locked down, and will not be updated. If you find anything broken with the new board, tell me, and it will be fixed.

I didn't. But it's over an hour long, so can I get a TL;DR first? Are there mines?

Also, it looks like you added tags around the youtube link. Try to edit your post, to do what the lazy person would have done: just paste the link without the extra tags. You might be pleasantly surprised.

The various county GIS websites are a gold-mine of information about gold mines. 8-) A long time ago I scraped all the plat maps I could get from the county DPW site . In case that ever disappears I'm attaching all of these to this post. These have the really old mining claims and are medium-useful ...

Oh yeah. Lonnie actually does have an account here. With a single post about how he doesn't post.

I miss seeing the banner and the easy access of the most recent posted hikes. When will it be available? There's no satisfying you people! :) Banner is medium-broken right now; will be fixed probably next week. The quick links are a good shortcut for the new posts. Also, the unread forums/threads/t...

Wait. Is this the "LD" that used to post here? His posts on this forum stopped in 2011.

I have a satellite rescue beacon thing, but I was a good boy, and bailed before needing to use it.

Would having a capable partner changed your mind? Definitely. Being able to talk about it would have made this a different situation entirely. I just looked at some of the old reports, and they confirm that I was doing fine on time. LD's old report even talks about the big headwall where I turned a...