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Great topic, Rico. I agree with Taco that the way you pick to get from Point A to Point B is often more interesting than the final destination. That said... I'd love to make it to Fish Fork. Climb Cucamonga directly from MF Lytle around Comanche. Monrovia Peak, maybe bike and hike. Visit the norther...

Here is a map for a hike I took back in 2004 http://caltopo.com/map?id=7T4U If I recall correctly I parked at waypoint 000, hiked to Big-T, took my Trail90 back. What is there now? That's exactly the trail I've been up. There's a wide shoulder/turnout at waypoint 000 for parking. Once you travel do...

Thanks for the writeup, David. Nice description of a less visited area. As much of a fringe zone as this seems to be, it's got a certain appeal. I have a vivid memory of hiking that trail once through the mists after a rain storm, gaining the meadows at dusk as the clouds parted and then hearing the...

I took a trip up Register Ridge after the first storm and spent a couple days with the family near Big Bear Lake this weekend and the contrast in quantity of snow in each place is remarkable. It seems that the SBs got a far greater amount of snow out of these storms than the SanGabes and down to low...

Bicentennial, baby!

Hey, Rico, great to see you up in the hills again. Sorry about the window. I guess every day in the Big-T is like Mardi Gras. I've never seen so much broken glass in my life as the last time I was poking around monkey canyon below the guaging station about 10 years ago. It still like that? Those sun...

Uncle Rico, So it was you! I know I recognized you from somewhere, but with all the fresh air, I guess my synapses weren't firing fast enough. Well met again, sir. In any case, I should have known that anybody you see hiking around up in a gloriously godforsaken spot like that must be a member of th...

Took a ride up Yerba Buena Ridge today from Little-T via Gold Creek on my bike. I've been scouting this one out a bit over the last couple of weeks to figure out the route. Today I fell just short of reaching Mt. McKinley via this approach as I ran out of time. I settled for a quick jog to the top o...

Nice trip. Speaking of frozen trees, has anyone else ever encountered that moment in the morning when you're going up the bowl trail for example and the sun comes over the ridge, things thaw a bit and then suddenly all of the frozen trees start to drop ice grenades on your head, sometimes cascading ...

I haven't been up there for a few months, but the "road" is now more of a single track trail weaving in between bushes, wash outs, sand piles and so on, but without any major obstacles. It's clear all the way to the Ken Burton trailhead. Travel is really no problem, just expect a little bi...

So I suppose the point is settled, no redwoods, yes incense cedars. But let's hear it for the incense cedars! I must say that they are no less majestic and striking, especially when you come across a particularly robust grove of them. On a trip up Middle Fork Lytle Creek in July I was really taken w...

It is strange to me that everything east of Mt. Baldy Rd. is not in the monument. I think the monument boundary more or less follows the San Bernardino County line. The San Bernardino County Supervisors were strongly opposed to monument designation as was the ownership of Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts. But e...

Your first photo look likes it might have been taken close to the place hang gliders used to launch. They would fly down and ride the updraft above the quarry and land in the riverbed below the outlet works. Eventually they started flying all the way down to the mouth of the canyon near Azusa. Wow,...

I rode my bike up Glendora Mountain Road to a point a mile or two beyond where it meets the turnoff to east fork road. Perfect weather. Nice views and lots of cool cloud formations above the range. Got a really good look at a fox crossing the road about 20 feet in front of me. He scrambled up the ro...

A somewhat more informative and less geography-challenged write-up of the same info in the article can be found here: http://www.arroyoseco.org/sgmnm.htm Anyone else notice that peculiar sharp spear in the boundary line near Stockton Flat? Would that possibly accommodate the bottom of a ski lift in ...

Rode my bike up Monrovia canyon to White Saddle and a bit beyond. Surprised at how much water was in the creeks. Everywhere else has been so dry. Good flow at the trail crossing past the shooting range. Seems like there's lots of water in Sawmill and vicinity. Got a very good look at an adolescent b...

It's not your imagination!

I just saw this thing on a recent bike ride and wondered where it went myself. I thought I saw a check dam or something down in the drainage.

It's definitely not the "telephone" trail. That one is an old road extending from the spur seen around 34.1979, -188.08881 on your map.

Hmm....

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. I'm scratching my head about some of this. I guess the SGR watershed is one of the main focus areas for the additional resources that are supposed to come along with this. I hope that area at least is provided some much needed TLC. Other than that, any ...

I was gonna say Millard campground, but not a good view of the sky.

Maybe about a mile hike to get there and I don't know if it's technically supposed to be a campsite, but what about the former Camp Sierra picnic area along sunset ridge?

Had a couple of hours this evening so I parked at the fire station and rode up the ACH to the grizzly flats road and up that to the mt lukens road and back down to the fire station. A very nice almost 2-hour loop. The stretch on Grizzly Flats Road from ACH up to the mt lukens road has been cleared o...

Great trip, Jim. Beautiful area. In early July, I hiked the Middle Fork all the way to Ice House Saddle and back. There was water at Stone House, then the creek went dry for a while beyond that. There was decent water at Third Crossing, but absolutely none up at Comanche. Maybe there's a little spri...

Very nice, guys. I love to see the different perspective looking back towards San Gorgonio and San Gabriels and also points south and east. All things considered, it's really amazing how much wild terrain remains in the southern california region. I'll bet the GPS knows where it is. It went to the w...

Rico's view has just about every major peak in the whole range in one line of sight. Killer. So many great places to choose from, but here's a nice spot. This is the view from the front porch: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm3.staticflickr.com/2934/14403546530_8c6bd1a30c_b.jpg The view ou...

Rico, great topic! HikeUp, thanks for digging up those links. I love reading accounts of the area from around that time. Kelly's account seems to claim that the geographical confusion was introduced by the original newspaper articles: "The newspaper account of the capture of Monarch was elabora...

Howdy, Rico! In the summer of 1988, I scraped together enough money to by a Western Mountaineering down summer bag at half price at the local mountain shop's going-out-of-business sale. It saw extremely heavy use through nearly 20 years, not so much use in the last few, but about a month ago I had a...

His name must be Archimedes.

The old timers hike to Orchard Camp and don't quite find the trail to Lookout Point. Pretty cool now-and-then photo comparisons. Might give someone a good idea of where to start looking for that trail: https://www.youtube.com/embed/-JpmpLxWQVs However, doesn't sound like that trail went beyond Looko...

I haven't been able to find signs of a trail around that location the times I've looked. (Mostly just peering over the edge of the Wilson trail down into the canyon in that vicinity and also trying to spot traces of something on the opposite wall of the canyon from high up on the Hiker Bob connector...

Took a trip to the area and I was impressed by the almost complete absence of water in the San Gorgonio high country. Many of the "springs" along the side of the Forsee creek trail were completely dry. Camped at Trail Fork Springs which was just a trickle of water seeping out of the ground...