EISPIRATEN

Welcome to the best ride in the high country of the Los Padres. This is my proprietary route that I am sharing with you on a limited basis so don't share with others otherwise it'll be overrun by the casuals. We start our day at the trailhead for Mt Pinos. We start on the fire road and pass the &quo...

I cheated it was filmed in the San Gabriels. If you want more hints, here is a behind the scenes video showing the filming in more detail. It is a very obvious and popular place.

The tradition is to skinny dip in the lake, you will need to go back.

I remember the Mars Bonfire and George Wysup controversy. There was a lot of conversation about what constituted sumitting a peak as some HPS peaks required third class climbing. They were so worried about finishing lists and the conventional opinion was getting to the bottom of a climb was a summit...

I decided to see what it would be like hiking a firebreak at around 80 degrees and see if I would like to do this next week. This ridge is one of the most iconic climb in the San Gabes. Everyone that does it says it is memorable and usually not in a good way which means it is awesome. It is famous f...

Nobody mentioned the highlight of the hike, finding Cecelia's sunglasses. Nice to meet DN&M.

I've always noticed that rock pile that is north of the 2 after you pass Three Points and wanted to go there. I manufactured enough peaks to make the drive out there worthwhile. I first started at Rosenita Saddle and took the ridge to the SE away from Hillyer. The first bump you get to is Peak 5,868...

View from the benchmark looking out at Pacifico.
View of the benchmark and the new stake put up.

There is an upper and lower trail above the falls, it sounds like you took the upper until it merged with the lower and came back along that one which follows the creek and goes right above the falls. Will have to get up there soon and try the firebreak to Manzanita Ridge and Mt. Wilson. It looks li...

I believe it is embers from the Bridge fire that got started up on Saturday with the Sana Ana winds.

One of my new things is to decide to do a hike and have multiple options as far as what I am going to do during the hike. The original thought of this hike was to get to a viewpoint of the Cuyama Badlands. Much of this has been closed by the Forest Service since they don't want to fix the road that ...

My fitness is moving along quite nicely so I decided on some possible xcountry exploration. I had noticed that there were a bunch of old trails that had existed between the 5 and Lake Piru. This area is pocketed with private properties in the middle of the National Forest but the trails definitely e...

The Moon did get moved, it was that very obvious round bump you climb steeply that is shaped like the moon. Oh well more revisionist history.

They’re closed because they “provide access to other trails that did burn,” she wrote. So based on that logic, everything needs to be closed when a fire occurs as all the trails eventually connect. I would say PCT down in SoCal should close after a fire wrecks the trail up in Oregon. It is all nons...