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Hey, AW, thanks for posting this and keeping us informed. I'm not sure from this who will pay for the feasibility study, the HSRA or the Forest? If the forest is on the hook, it seems like yet one more item to drain funds from the recreational part of the "multiple-use" equation. It seems ...

Hey, congratulations on an epic journey. Alright. Looking into that Allison Gulch this week. I've heard of it before and thought it required equipment or was out of my league. I went up to the mine via Allison Gulch in the spring. I had always heard/assumed the same thing but was surprised to find t...

Hey, Missy, nice job getting there and back! Amazing how wild and rugged something so close to town can be. I would love to see how that miner managed to build a cabin up in there. I've recently been scoping out a loop through Saucer that seems doable post Station Fire. You can quickly reach an entr...

I rode my bike up the canyon to white saddle today. Saw some bear tracks on the road a little beyond the scout camp, then between the firing range and white saddle, there was a very robust pile of bear scat about every 100 yards like clockwork all the way to the saddle. A few months ago I got a good...

Yep Mike. A couple of googles today revealed to me that there is a supposed trail up Bichota to Rattlesnake!? Time to renovate that one! A few years after the Curve fire, I managed to navigate the switchbacks of the "trail" seen on topos from Bichota canyon up a southern drainage to the R...

I hiked up dark canyon from oakwilde once and found it to be a beautiful stream filled little canyon. I'm sure it's bone dry now. Yes! It was a beautiful little stream under the canopy of alders and some pines in the shaded north facing canyon walls. You could park at the gate for CCC ridge then ta...

Where is this grow located? Are we talking about the tributary near Buckhorn Spring that is used to approach peak 6320+? I encountered this individual a little to the west of there on the steep rib that descends directly from the crest to peak 5878. I assume he was watching the area, on his way in ...

I think the old road grade was the SCE road to access the power lines and towers when they were built? It seems to be washed out near the head of pine canyon but you can see it contour under the power lines around the east shoulder to somewhere above Eaton Canyon. I once ascended Pine Canyon from th...

Thanks, guys! Cool to see your pics of that ridgeline since I'll probably never get there to see it first hand. Uncle Rico, even if you don't take the ridge route, the High Desert Trail is a really unique and interesting trail to take. I've hiked sections of it but never the whole length. It constan...

After my original plans for last Sunday were thwarted by an apparent pot growing operation, I ended up at Islip Saddle wondering what to do with the day. Since I had never descended from Islip, I decided to hike down the South Fork trail and see what it was all about. The trail was in decent shape w...

I went for a hike in the rain storm two weeks ago. It made for some pretty cool cloud and mist formations: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm1.staticflickr.com/456/20109194276_323bb9bf93_b.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm1.staticflickr.com/455/20135465335_81031903cb_b.jpg htt...

Hi guys, Be careful if you go into the upper west forks of Bear Creek, generally to the north and east of Twin Peaks. On recent visits to the area, I came across some discarded black tubing, fairly well-established use trails and a potato chip bag in the middle of nowhere. Then on a separate visit, ...

Wow, so nice. I really miss aspen forests! Lived in Santa Fe for a while and parts of the Sangre de Cristo mountains are blanketed with 'em. Brings back memories.

Even though it's technically not in the Angeles NF, Middle Fork Lytle Creek would be nice to fit in somehow. Some very nice camping up in there. The challenge would be to find a good route to get you through the high country to the next good campsite. I guess you could start out over by Gobbler's Kn...

Thanks for the responses, y'all. You guys inspire me! Rico, I'm sure I'll bump into you again on another less-traveled trail! Looking forward to the next time. The fire made it a tad easier I bet. A few months before the fire, I walked down to "Lake Disappointment" (aka Supercloud Hollow) ...

Peak 5058 is one of the more reclusive summits of the front range, it's hidden from view from most places and even when visible, it's apparently not much more than a mild bump along a rolling ridgeline. The west ridge that leads directly to its summit, however, is a very dramatic and rocky assemblag...

I haven't been in there, but according to Chris Brennan: "It is a strenuous, two day adventure hike with some spectacular scenery and several challenging rappels." He's got three entries, upper, middle and lower cucamonga: http://www.dankat.com/advents/uprcuc.htm http://www.dankat.com/adve...

Not too shabby. Great job, thanks for the photos. I love the pic of the summit of Iron poking through the clouds with the Front Range summits silhouetted in the background. Looks like some pretty magical cloud conditions on the way back. I love being out on the trail or on summits during the late af...

Completely by accident I stumbled across nicely scanned copies of several issues of Will Thrall's Trails Magazine from the '30s. Just browsing through a few issues there are interesting items including a 1934 map of the trail system in the whole range (not much detail, I'm afraid,) Rev. Rankin's fir...

Very nice, y'all. This area looks like the missing link between the San Gabriels and the lower Los Padres. Good call on doing this before the summer gets here!

I do question the actual damage done to the riverbed. Any time there is significant rainfall in the San Gabriels the riverbeds are extensively rearranged. Yes, I agree. Sometimes the upper riverbeds almost seem like big troughs of glacial silt runoff that constantly rearrange themselves with each s...

I recently went up the east fork for the first time in years. I wondered what had happened to the community at Follows Camp after the Williams fire and all... Here's who took over the land: http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/ ... h-of-azusa And they don't seem to be trustworthy landowners of a p...

Congratulations on making it all the way up there, guys! I have yet to make it to either of those peaks. The lack of trees almost gives you the feeling of a desert range in that area, nice solitude. I was in Trail Canyon about a month ago and hiked up to about 1/2 mile beyond Tom Lucas. Up to that p...

Congratulations, Sean. That's a long slog once you get down into it. A few years back, I did this as a solo loop hike. I parked at Devil's Canyon trailhead, then walked across the hwy past Chilao visitor center and took the trail that heads towards Horse Flats and Bandido then parallels the road ove...

Taking a flight back to LA from Atlanta today I got a pretty good view out the window. All things considered, happy to see there's even a tiny bit of snow up there. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm8.staticflickr.com/7635/16829070830_2b81feacc2_b.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/...

Hey, Taco, you really can't beat the quantity and quality of info that has accumulated on this forum. Hats off! AW, thanks for the details about conditions on both sides of the creek and in the creek itself. It's very helpful. On one visit there, I checked out the mouth of the drainage you mentioned...

Nice trip, AW. Looks like an early start is best for getting up and over the saddle before the sun starts really cooking the first couple miles of trail. One of them being how do you get to triplet rocks from Bear Creek, because while its confounding in that its brushy, but still looks doable lol. M...

Were you looking at a route going all the way up from the Bridge? That would be extra abusive. I've only hiked it from Shoemaker Road. I haven't been since the fires, but it used to be a pretty stiff hike, somewhat comparable to Iron Mt. in difficulty. Less vertical gain, but not a maintained trail,...

Millard Canyon is still closed between the campground and the falls. You take sunset ridge trail to access the canyon above the falls. Once you're in the canyon bottom, it's slower going than before the fire, lots of downed trees and changes to the stream course. In some sections it's nearly unrecog...

Interesting bit in the paper about the sierra nevada red fox:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Sounds like their normal range is mostly way up north in Lassen, so kind of striking to see them so far south in Yosemite.