EISPIRATEN

HikeUp wrote: ↑Just hope they know their gun safety rules...

Rule 1: keep your booger hook off the bang switch until you're ready to fire

Ackshully, that's Rule #3.

I want my 39 seconds back.

tarol wrote: ↑From our neighborhood in the High Desert

Oh man, from our vantage high on the side of San Bernardino Peak, we could see that plume stretched out across the desert, at a right angle to us.

I was at the Burro Canyon Shooting Park with my crew on Saturday. On Sunday I was backpacking in the San Gorgonio Wilderness with Ingrid and dog, and at about 3:00, when we got into our campsite at Limber Pine Bench (9,360 feet), I looked over towards the San Gabriels and saw a huge plume of smoke r...

I soooo wanted to use the 20% coupon on a $600 four-season tent, but REI's tent selection is lousy.

So I bought a pair of overprice photochromatic glacier glasses instead:

I think Taco might like these guys. http://pullharder.org/about/ We are not an organization. We don’t have rules or leaders. We are simply a group of friends with a passion for climbing. Born in San Diego, we have now expanded our sprawling set of affiliates to other corners of the globe. Pullharder...

Guns weigh too much.

Damn, finally got my photos up, a year later.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 563689875/

At least you can see some snow in those pics.

Now, I get they were doing inspections, but again why were they there? Did they get a call from the shooting range operator? The public? Were they just in the area, and stopped by on a whim to see if anything is unusual to them? The last. Just some guys out in the desert minding their own business,...

LOL, you're hilarious. This is a Federal Law Enforcement Officer, if they have any suspicions that your firearms may be illegal, they have every right to check that, no matter what the jurisdiction, whether it be county, city, local, state, private or federal. They can usually write citations for a...

They are wasting time (illegally) checking for California firearms violations.

Winter camp at 9,380 feet by simonov, on Flickr

Today's "environmentalists" aren't your father's environmentalists. Longtime cabin owner and environmental activist Glen Owens was dumbfounded over what some are calling a Caltrans trial balloon. "Why would a state agency try to shirk its responsibilities and then think another govern...

This year Ingrid and I have been using a Big Agnes double down mummy bag. Sharing body heat is an efficient way to go, especially good for her because I am such a warm sleeper and give off a lot of heat from which she can benefit.

Someone from the board is always going up in winter. Here is some further inspiration, if you need it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 330787607/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 925346369/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 272784473/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sim...

Where do the Eispiraten go?

We decided on Saturday to take Bella the dog up to Aspen Grove Sunday morning. We got to the Mill Creek Ranger Station before 7:30am and there were NO PERMITS available, for ANYTHING. Even the Momyer Creek permits were all gone. WTF? No way would all the Momyer Creek permits be used up. I figured ei...

Above the Aspen Grove by simonov, on Flickr

Zach wrote: ↑geez, they were very wordy back then. i could have described that story in 2 paragraphs. still cool to see those early TR's from back in the day

Trip reports were much more wordy in the days before digital cameras.

I just leave them in summit registers. I let other people commit the actual vandalism.

The paint on the Lamel Springs sign wasn't there a month ago. Christ.

O/T: Missing hiker found safe(San Gorgonio) http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_18862888 "...The hiker, Bryan Gutierrez, was located by San Bernardino County search and rescue personnel at about 1:30 p.m(the day after missing). Gutierrez was found in Falls Creek Canyon and was hoisted out of the a...

Why do poo threads get so many replies?

Took a small group up Mt San Gorgonio via Dry Lake over the long weekend. Dry Lake is full of water.



And we got rained on on Sunday.

The rest of the story.

I'm leading a three day hike up Mt San Gorgonio via Dry Lake this weekend for the OCHC. Two nights camping at Dry Lake; Sunday day hike to the top. Chance of thunderstorms. We have a couple of spaces free.

Lemme know if you are interested.

Sorry it took so long.

Remembering Eaton Canyon Hiker (Guest Column) http://altadena.patch.com/articles/reme ... est-column When non-hikers write about hiking! At the canyon, we were able to find a hiker who was there at the time John fell, and she showed us where John had fallen from and how to enter that trail. Unfortu...

I'm fortunate to have been able to attend one of his slide shows, entirely by chance. I had scheduled a three-day climb of Rabbit Peak a few Februaries ago and decided to spend the night before in Borrego Springs, a one-horse desert town if there ever was one. I was there with another hiker and we w...