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I compensate for the brevity of this trip report by including a ginormous panorama. We went out to the Golden Trout Wilderness for the long weekend. Drove up from the Owens Valley to Kennedy Meadows, and past it to Blackrock trailhead. Everything is paved and open. Trailhead is just below 9000ft. We...

I found this cool hat at Ice House Saddle.

Instead of a new post, I thought I'd just add on to yours. The trip from Tecuya Ridge was harder than I expected. I underestimated how much water I needed, so it was a hot, miserable trip on the way back. I wasted a lot of time and energy crashing through brush. The summit area was really cool and w...

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In 2017 my sister in law was hired by Weber University in Ogden, Utah, and then a couple years later my parents bought a house along the edge of the city to spend more time with my brother's family. I thus had a date with the Wasatch Range. 3 years in, there have been many follow-up dates, and the r...

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...

This past week I've managed to clear most of the vegetation on the trail to Bailey Canyon Falls. It's a short trail. The tread needs a lot more work which I'll try to get to this week and next. But it's worth the 30 minutes or so to go see the falls which, surprisingly to me, are still flowing well ...

Is the Lost Ridge Trail also referred to as the Sunset Ridge Nature Trail? IMG_8930.jpg The sign above was somewhere near the upper part of the Lost Ridge Trail I think. I did the Lost Ridge Trail in 2011 and it was tree fall, bushy hell. Tree fall - an easy one. I didn't take pictures of the rough ...

Well, three years after your post, I made it to the top of White Mountain. I'll add a few recent photos, but your documentation is pretty thorough. I considered trying to bike it, but didn't want to worry about getting the tire pressure right or risk damaging the bike. I drove about halfway up White...

Yall may have heard of lost cities being found in the Central American jungle using LIDAR scans. If not, go look that up right now! An airplane flies over the jungle, and uses a laser scanner pointed at the ground to measure lots and lots of distances. Most of the laser returns come from the trees, ...

Day two of my White Mountains weekend featured Boundary Peak (13,141'). It's the state high point of Nevada, even though it's a lesser peak in the White Mountains that spilled over the border. I started a little before 7 AM from the Queen Canyon trailhead. The drive on Queen Canyon Road was about 6....

A pleasant Sunday morning, so I attempted to improve this creek crossing (#6). Also, playing around with Photoscape X.

Before (L) & After (R) - looking upstream...

Before (L) & After (R) - looking downstream...

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Let's try a gif...

I found another quarter on my Sierra trip, unfortunately it got lost somewhere else along the way. However I did return home with this cool bandanna that I rescued from a small pine tree near one of the Trinity Lakes.

I was out exploring the San Bernardinos recently and I stumbled upon a few hot spring pools. Are any of you familiar with these and if so, do any of you know if this spot has a name or something? I was looking online and not able to really find much info on it. There was one pool along a canyon wall...

A few years back, Dima and I rode up to the top of White Mtn Peak from Grandview campground above 8,000ft. Clearly, the pure way to do it would be to ride from the lowest realistic point, that being either Big Pine (a lot of pavement), or Bishop (nearly all dirt). I took my gravel bike last time whi...

Hell yeah guys! Glad you turned back when altitude sickness started setting in. It would have been extra risky trying to summit with that!

Things I knew before but was reminded of on this trip: the mountain doesn't give a shit about you. It doesn't care how young or old or fit you are. You will never conquer it. You can choose to test yourself on it or stay at home and watch TV. The mountain will always be there, indifferent. I have ne...

I made an unsuccessful attempt at Frankish peak last Friday (30AUG24) morning around 0730. Stoddard has become a somewhat regular before-work run as it's shaded, has pretty views, and is a quick drive from my home. On a recent run, I found myself curious about the Barrett Stoddard Truck Trail's cont...

I've figured out where Sasquatch is living. https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/angeles/alerts-notices/?aid=72376 There's a massive cover up. They are trying to fool us by claiming there is an endangered frog, when in fact ol' squatch is living unmolested and feeding on frog's legs this whole time. Basta...

Here's a link to the official Trip Report Where: Cooper Canyon Trail Camp - San Gabriel Mountains - Angeles National Forest When: 8/31/24 - 9/1/24 Distance: 5.8 miles round trip Conditions: High was 87, low was 55. No precip. Who: Myself, wife, 2.5 year old toddler Pictures: Here at the bottom Light...

Mount George Davis (12,691') is the high point between the north fork of Bishop Creek and Wonder Lakes in the John Muir Wilderness. It's on the south side of the Piute Pass Trail across from Mount Emerson. I noticed it recently when my wife and I hiked to Piute Pass and when I looked it up, I found ...

Day two of my Bishop blast had my sites set on Bloody Mountain (SPS #141), 12,552' south of Mammoth Lakes. The name refers to the blood red glow reflected from the red rock in the morning. The effect is best viewed from Mammoth Lakes. Bloody can be a short hike (5.6 miles round trip) if you can driv...

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...

I got the West Fuji Peak registry and the Phillips Point sign! TR coming soon, but someone decided to rename West Fuji to Philips Point and we're not having that.

What a weekend: took Dima out to Idyllwild for his first trad or multipitch climb and he absolutely crushed it; made short work of white maiden's (5.8 var, 800'), then since we finished relatively early, went for extra credit up El camino real (10-, 500'). We couldn't resist doing the classic laybac...

Damn interesting thread guys. Thanks for posting all this info.

Ed Nohr sounds like a total stud and looks a bit like Hunter S. Thompson. Ha ha.

Ran Ontario this morning and had a decent vantage of the damage in Cattle Canyon / Baldy Basin. Also ran into what looks like one of the fires that started in Icehouse Canyon that was thankfully quickly put out. I've got to imagine the erosion is going to be crazy the next couple winters with nothin...

Thanks for organizing, Sean and to everybody else for coming out! We hiked some old fire breaks, looking for spotty bits of shade and an occasional artifact or critter. The views made this all worth it. Great to finally meet you, David! The 6 of us started at Monte Cristo camp in the morning, and he...

This was my second Eis Piraten anniversary, and I'm told the 17th that has occurred. This place may be a minor for one more year, but we still drank beers at the campsite. • Monte Cristo is probably the closest overnight car camping campground to where I live, so its got that going for it, along wit...