EISPIRATEN

I've been trying to keep this on the down low, but now you know the real reason I've been out of pocket for awhile.

Sunglasses found at the little-known "Tujunga Ponds"
The fishing was lousy, but my sunglasses were broken so this was a clutch find.

Nice peak bagging trip. Cool pics.

I walked up to Monrovia from Monrovia Cyn Park 16+ years ago...

I've been helping one of my Wednesday crazies accompliish the Sierra Club HPS list.

Last Wednesday we scheduled Mt Lewis. Since the road was closed to Dawson Saddle we decided to walk up the road.

I was also curious about the progression of the construction.

We started around 8am. There was only ...

I know this will sound a little like a trip report, but i don't really intend it that way.

I made the pilgrimage to Owen Brown's grave Sunday afternoon. Instead of parking at the end of El Prieto Road and walking up the road, I started in the Arroyo Seco, went up El Prieto Canyon, and then ...

What a hike! I found your swag up at rabbit peak a while back when exploring the area myself.

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Cool to see that a group like this exists!

I also ran into the owner of the Monte Cristo Mine who gave me a nice welcome and offered me a ride to the ...

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be here. I had come across some trail reports on the site before, but finding the stickers on an out-of-the-way peak like rabbit convinced me to register an account and post!

Sean and I made the long drive to the trailhead for Stepladder Mountains (DPS #94, 2940') on Friday and camped. Well, Sean set up a tent and I slept in the truck. From highway 95, there were 17 miles of good, then bad dirt roads. The powerline road was smooth, the pipeline road not as good, and ...

Thanks, Tekewin, for planning and leading this hike. It was a nice challenge, and tons of fun.

Because of my various health issues, I tried to take a less rocky, less sidehilly route back to the car. I had studied the landmarks earlier and figured I could at least get within view of the car. But ...

Why separate? What did I miss?

No disrespect intended.


The direct route from the truck was very rocky and went through some annoyingly deep washes. Sean was looking for a path with fewer rocks and obstacles since his feet were starting to hurt. The mistake I made was assuming he had the track ...

Someone left this wagon near Stepladder Mountain...
Now it's Tekewin's...when he goes back and hauls it three miles across the desert to his car.

My father and I have a tradition, dating back to Cowen Hill in Maine from the year 2000 when I was 14, of doing a short and sweet hike on Christmas Eve. We've been able to get one in most years since.

With my parents in Ogden, Utah over Christmas, the family made the 10 hour drive to visit and we ...

It's was a giveaway that was part of an old David Letterman Late Show gag that has made its way into Forum Lore. Oh, youth!

From Shoemaker road(open):
east fork road open til Camp Williams store....with stop signs and not the closure sign.
eastern Rattlesnake peak is burnt (again), no signs at Shoemaker, so open.

In picture top of Iron Mountain good...and Heaton Flat campground..and restroom at parking lot ...

Cool, remote area!

Your elevations maybe don't match up with the USGS scan on Caltopo(?) but I see the area you were in based on other place names you mention.


The person who put it up on Peakbagger used his GPS for the measurements, you can see the location of the peaks there.


The hike ...

We evacuated last night from Upper Hastings Ranch (NE Pasadena). Back at house now. Can still see fire to the east. This neighborhood lost a few houses reportedly.

I'm just gonna leave this here. Our very own flag for big adventures!

I've been looking forward to a snow hike and finally had the opportunity to do so. I invited Jeff to check out Ice House Canyon with the possibility of hiking to Timber Mountain.

To our surprise there wasn't any snow at the start of the trail. However, it was a nice walk. The creek was flowing ...

I saw this cutie slowly making its way across the road above Brand Park yesterday. I gently placed it roadside to keep the e-cycles from squashing it.

Great hike with great company. Many thanks to the tireless expert trailblazers in the front of the pack who lopped the way for the old guy (me). They did the heavy lifting! Kudos also to the folks who hauled some very unique provisions into the bush for our enjoyment (my first experience with a ...

Referenced in Robinson's San Gabriels, I have been reading the The Southern Sierras of California by Charles Francis Saunders. Published in 1923, it provides a first-hand account of meandering through many of our favorite ranges during the golden era of hiking a hundred years ago. I'm only a couple ...

Unfortunately we have had a lot of fires over the last six months but they have given the hiker an opportunity to get to places that may have been difficult in the past. Case in point the hike I did today. I was unsure if after the Gorman fire whether ridges had been cleared or not but went up there ...

I set off from Best Cocina around 0945 to meet Dima in Claremont around noon. I had my mtb (Trek 1120) with my boots, crampons, axe, and other mountaineering jazz in my bags strapped to the bike, and took it easy. One thing I really like about these Baldy Full Moon trips is waking up late. You don't ...

I met up with my buddy Ben Baumann, a rare time our schedules and locations synced, to tackle Signal Peak, AZ (DPS #70), a P3K. It's in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, set up for bighorn sheep. The refuge's name (KOFA) was derived from an acronym for one of the area's notable mines, the King of ...

My first attempt at Palo Verde was April, 2024. I turned back at the knife edge ridge, still a little shaken from stepping directly over a rattlesnake in the approach gully. I had run out of risk taking brain juice for the day. On the bright side, I had solved all the route finding problems and ...