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Whereabouts on the toll road did you encounter the machine? It might be county doing something. The sign and yellow tape were immediately after I hit the road and turned right on it. The work was probably a quarter of a mile farther up the road. I'm talking about the old Wilson toll road, the dirt ...

I went up the main Wilson trail this morning expecting to go to the summit. When I got to the toll road, there was a sign saying "TRAIL CLOSED DANGER." Being a suicidal anarchist, I stepped over the yellow tape and kept going, to see if there was really any reason for the closure. Sure eno...

I don't normally go over there much anyway, so it's not a big deal to me, but I'm curious. Why is it still closed after such a long time?

Perhaps wrapping your normal shoes in medical gauze would do the trick. Then just remove the gauze afterward. Wouldn't running in cowboy boots be a sudden change for you? I'm not talking about running it in the boots. I'm talking about reestablishing the trail, which would probably take a long time...

My understanding of the scientific evidence is that for running injuries, your body will tend to adapt pretty well to most things if you give it time, but the highest risk for injury is when you make a sudden change in what you do. So I have zero interest in trying that style of shoe.

The South Ridge trail on Tahquitz Peak has a southern extension, which is in the area where the fire hit. I went over there the other day wearing nylon mesh running shoes and a pair of Dirty Girl trail running gaiters with the intention of running up it. Although May Valley Road is in great shape, t...

Even a mild storm on Baldy is dangerous due to the risks of freezing, falls, altitude sickness and white out conditions. Sorry, just not buying it. A mild storm doesn't give you white-out conditions. AMS is virtually nonexistent at 10,000 ft. (The cabin of a passenger jet is equivalent to 8,000 ft....

Was there a heavy storm going on the day he disappeared? I hadn't known that. I don't have any compunctions about going up there when all that's forecast is just a small amount of snowfall. It can be really pretty. The media is always super bad at reporting relevant factors in climbing and mountaine...

Maybe he got disoriented coming down off the summit of Baldy, headed down into Goode by mistake. I've made similar mistakes coming off that summit in winter. In snow, all those ridges kind of look alike if you're not holding a compass and map in your hands. I don't want to be ghoulish or prurient, b...

> From the Mt. Wilson toll road I opted for the steep shortcut directly to the summit. It was freezing but peaceful. Look out for the poodle dog bush on that stretch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriodictyon_parryi > I saw one other hiker and talked with him for a bit before eating my second peanut...

I did an out and back on the Vivian Creek trail to San G today, in my "run" style (i.e., run/jog/walk, with a little fanny pack). I ripped my precious favorite 1990 fanny pack when putting microspikes in it. You can't seem to get fanny packs this small anymore :-( I'll have to sew on a pat...

They don't say, but it looks like it's the Snow Creek side of the range, and the person got video as they were driving to Palm Springs. https://abc7.com/avalanche-san-jacinto- ... /12904319/ It's hard to tell the scale, but considering there's 10k feet of prominence, it looks like a pretty huge one.

I see, it was just that I was using a browser extension that was blocking some third-party scripts from running, and that broke the edit button.

(My second paragraph is referring to the KTLA article linked from the gofundme page. Hey, didn't tapatalk used to have a way to edit a post after you posted it, or am I just hallucinating that memory?)

The link at the top of #1 is about a high school basketball game...? As always with these mass-media news reports, there is zero info that would help anyone else analyze the accident and get anything useful from it. There are various ways a vertebra can be injured. The processes (parts that stick ou...

Here are some photos. (1) Unfolded cup. (2) Setup with microspikes, snack, and folded cup. (3) My normal setup with water and a snack. It is possible to fit both the water bottle and the microspikes in this pack, but it gets pretty tight.

> Can you carry water in this cup or do you fill it whenever you want a drink? It has no lid. You use it to drink when you're at a water source. > A 32 ounce Nalgene bottle weighs about 6 ounces, 1 liter SmartWater bottle weighs about 1.2 ounces. Of course if one doesn't carry any water then it's si...

I've been doing Wilson once a week for the last few weeks, timing myself to the top. Last week there was a lot of snow and ice, so this week I made room for microspikes in my favorite itsy-bitsy fanny pack by substituting a folding silicone cup for my water bottle. So of course the snow had complete...

then $3.50 for a soda at the pie shop around the corner. SW corner of Baldwin & Sierra Madre is Happy's Liquor store if you want cheaper soda!!! lol That's actually seriously a good idea. Never noticed them there. (And there's another liquor store two doors down...?). The Sinclair gas station a...

> They struggled because of Covid and an old lady backing her SUV into the store front (which closed them down for like 10 months). They went tits up in December 2022. I used to go there in the morning before running, then when I got back from my run around 11, I would buy some food and eat it out a...

I went up the trail today for an out and back to the summit. The bridge made me feel nice and safe. The poodle dog bush near the summit seems to be dying out, which is good. Creeks were running faster than usual, but not so much as to cause problems crossing. But -- Bean Town is out of business! So ...

Wow, fancy!

I think that must be the Dan Richter who played the ape in the movie 2001. He's an active climber and mountaineer.

Does anyone know what the conditions are like on the main Mt Wilson trail right now? Washouts from the recent storms?

Oops, I realized after posting this that this is already being discussed in a different thread: old-mt-wilson-trail-t1004.html#p66301

That was an ambitious attempt. If you made it to the saddle, were you going to go around and come over Little Charlton or go straight up the ridge? I went up the ridge (in summer) and it seemed like 45 degrees in places. That would have been spicy. I was planning on going from the junction up the r...

Yeah, probably a more common example in that area would be that people are like, "Let's do the bowl!," and then when they get there the conditions aren't good, but they do it anyway.

Sean wrote: ↑

bcrowell wrote: ↑ No, I'm a cell phone refusenik.

No camera neither?

I don't want to carry extra crap.
I guess I'm out of step with the zeitgeist where it didn't happen unless it's on tiktok

Thanks, Sean, that makes more sense. The take-aways for me are (1) when judging your run-out, consider trees; (2) wear a helmet if you're going up a route that's notorious for rockfall. Not that I'm blaming her, but it's important to learn from accident reports how to reduce your own risk. This is a...

Sean wrote: ↑Thanks for the report. Sounds like you made the right call. Did you take any photos?

No, I'm a cell phone refusenik.

On Friday I went up to the South Fork trailhead with the goal of doing Charlton on the last day of clear weather before the next storm came in on Saturday. I didn't know what conditions would be like, so I brought microspikes, snowshoes, and crampons. There was snow all the way down to the trailhead...

[merged from a redundant thread] There have been two deaths on Baldy recently. Very sad, RIP. Does anyone understand what exactly happened when Crystal Paula Gonzalez died? The OC Register says, "The hiker was trekking along on the Baldy Bowl trail, nearly nine miles long, when she slid on ice ...