EISPIRATEN

Very nice. Being a California kid, I always thought that summer was the brown season and winter was the green season until I lived somewhere else. In most places it's the opposite! Nice country. Reminds me a little of the Pecos wilderness outside Santa Fe where I went to college. I miss them aspen f...

Wow, Paul. Thank you so much for sharing the results of your experience and research and for all of your work making access to that area possible. It's remarkable how the fire cycle can expose pieces of history thought to be "lost" but basically still there underneath the chaparral. A few ...

I was in Rubio Canyon yesterday and noticed orange trail tape marking a route ascending through the bushes up the canyon wall to the shoulder opposite Rubio Pavillion. Is a trail being developed over there as well? I'd always assumed that that shoulder was the line the original lonetree trail took u...

Hey, y'all, I've been enjoying the forum for a bit now. Thanks for sharing all the solid info and good adventures. I haven't been able to get out into the hills for a while, but I'm starting to get back out a bit. Here goes: So I had a few hours on Memorial Day to get out of the house with my mounta...

Thanks for the photos and the clarification, y'all. [quote]This photo shows a Bob Cat so named because of the short "bobbed" tail[/quote] The first one I saw near the Lukens fire road had the short stubby tail and white markings on the ears, but a solid, reddish-amber coat, so it threw me ...

Hi all, I surprised a bobcat high up on the Rim of the Valley Trail this afternoon. Maybe a month ago I startled another one up on the Lukens fire road above La Canada. Any guesses on what's up? I'm amazed they didn't hear me first. Before this, I've never seen a single cat in the SGs during years o...