EISPIRATEN

Found three more blank triangles along the Mt. Lukens Road.


Near Bee Flat


At junction with Earl Canyon Mtwy


On Peak 4223 (Mt. Pickens)

I unearthed one on Cole Point and set it upright on the summit.

The marker is missing from Sunset Peak now, I walked up there today. Also gone is the rock pile that housed a summit register with an Eispiraten sticker. Looks like the rocks were moved to create a 8-inch tall windbreak for a tent a few yards to the west of the summit.



This was December 2015



As of today. Quite a few areas were smoothed over as if they had been dug recently.

I saw a couple more this weekend on my trek up Potato Mountain.



This is on the Palmer Canyon Motorway about a mile from Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.



Almost at the summit of Potato. It looks like FV was written on there but nothing official.

These two are near the East Fork parking lot.



And this one is off Hwy 39 between the two dams.

Not the San Gabriels, but close enough. Blank triangle on the SW ridge of Arrowhead Peak:



Don't remember the elevation; above 3000ft probably.

Found near Azusa River Wilderness Park.

Noticed this one along the trail in the Hunter's Ridge development in Fontana. No numbers. Almost completely concealed by brush.

For the record, here is the marker I found and uprighted on Triple Divide (6760') above the junction of Pacifico Mtn. Rd. and Round Top Truck Rd. The triangular headpiece was shot up and lacked identifiers.

Two more. First the less-interesting one. This isn't in the San Gabriels, but close-enough. On Juncal-Murietta Road, just above the Jameson reservoir. This is over Thanksgiving, so the whole area has burned down since then. Note the thick, flammable brush cover. In any case, PFC3 and PW4:



The more interesting one is just South of point 6138, just off the main trail to Iron Mt. W17:

No photos, but two more number-less triangles:

On a minor peak, next to a powerline-tower just below White Saddle on Van Tassel road.

Above that, at the junction of Van Tassel road and Rincon-Red Box rd.

There's a double triangle on the summit of San Gabriel Peak. I didn't take a pic because I thought it was already on the list. But I didn't see it on a quick scan of this thread so I'm adding it to the list. Sorry if its a dupe.

Under the water tank at San Olene.

Point 2867, East of Mt Bliss

Found on Rafael BM.

Buy one get one free: start of ridge near the San Gabriel Dam road entrance.





The main letters are obscured by fire damage, but I think the top one says "S 15" with a small "ST2" stamped into the base corner. And the bottom sign says "ST 2" with "S34" stamped into its base.

I don't think we've documented any on Waterman. Here is one ("Z-39 USFS") near the summit.



And one at the trailhead from Three Points.



Looks like it might read "KT 6".

These are probably the 2 Sean mentions in his post #10 of this thread.

Near the summit of Pt. 6168 on the HPS route #1 to Bare Mountain.

Along the ridge where HPS route #1 to Bare Mountains intersects HPS route #2


Both of these posts had faint, residual number/lettering, but I couldn't make it out.

Mt. Pacifico Campground two-toned overlapping double triangle.

Cabin Flat. Difficult to read (ABR25?).

A bit North of Mt Bliss, a bit East of Van Tassel rd. On the nameless bump a bit above 3600ft MSL (or maybe on the next bump on that ridge). S61:

Yet another metal triangle on the Wright Mountain Summit, 8505 feet elevation:




Too much paint is gone to read this one

Wait, really? I've been on the Wright mtn summit ~ 5 years ago, and this wasn't there. Were we at the wrong place? I recall the summit being poorly-defined.

dima wrote: Some peaks in the San Gabriels have metal signs on them with some sort of code written on an inverted triangle, like this W15 on top of Iron Mountain:



There's a W5 on top of Lookout Mountain, and I've seen a number of others I can't recall right now. Does anybody know what those signify? Is there a list?

Lookout is awesome! Had a lot of fun on that hike.

dima wrote: Wait, really? I've been on the Wright mtn summit ~ 5 years ago, and this wasn't there. Were we at the wrong place? I recall the summit being poorly-defined.

July 2014 there was only a rock pile, and I found pieces of the torn register on the south ridge. March 2016 the metal post had appeared in the rock pile. The summit is broad and flat. Go to the east side to find the rock pile among trees.

Sean wrote:

dima wrote: Wait, really? I've been on the Wright mtn summit ~ 5 years ago, and this wasn't there. Were we at the wrong place? I recall the summit being poorly-defined.

July 2014 there was only a rock pile, and I found pieces of the torn register on the south ridge. March 2016 the metal post had appeared in the rock pile. The summit is broad and flat. Go to the east side to find the rock pile among trees.

I was on Wright last summer and I don't recall seeing a triangle at the rock pile.

On a related note: Wright was one of the most uninteresting summits I've ever been on. Great views on the way up and down though...

Here's the pile (pictured in July)

Gobblers Knob



Circle Mountain

March 2016


no register

On the fire road from the 2 to Mt Waterman. Looks like it once said ZW-7, later painted over with ZT-3.