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The Whitney shot was digitally zoomed 8x I think. Here is the version not zoomed. Perfect weather that day.

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Olancha was great. I did it as a day hike.

Here's Owens from Olancha...

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Agree 100% on how nice the southern Sierra is and how fun Owens is. It has a striking profile from highway 395.

Wow. TIL that fail2ban can secure more than SSH.

To try to understand the config, I fed the .conf files into a friendly AI who gave me this unsolicited comment. Do with it what you will. Your current config seems to be working.

A maxretry of 20 combined with a findtime of 20 is quite "loose ...

Congrats on the babies!! A whole different adventure.

Nice photos. That's an area I haven't really explored either. I went down to the creek on the trail once, but never ventured along the creek.

Thanks for the report.

Unfortunately, we in the Age of Ultron Agents.

I am one of the offenders (not on this site), but I was sending agents out to scour the world for information and getting blocked with 429 errors everywhere. I stopped doing that with limited exceptions and with my own throttles in place. There will ...

My wife and I spent a couple of days in Lone Pine doing the things we always wanted to do, but never had time because we had bigger fish to fry.

We visited the Manzanar Historic Site (Japanese internment camp) north of Lone Pine. That was interesting and kind of sad.

We visited the Western Museum ...

"Not Occidental Mtn". Funny. I would have gone with "Accidental".

Good luck on Rabbit. It's a beast. Henry and I did the east ridge, which was an interesting scramble, then he wanted to come down an different ridge to pick up three obscure benchmarks. That was a 20 hour hike for us and top five hardest I've done. The views into Clark Dry Lake are amazing.

Dang, that looks scary! Well done Dima and Wes. Wonderful report and photos.

In one of those shots, it looks like you are hanging on the wall with no rope. Alarming indeed.

I think they are probably of similar effort if you take the south ridge to Rattlesnake. Not as many ups and downs on Rattlesnake.

Pusch Peak (pronounced push) is in the Santa Catalina mountains in Tuscon, AZ. I intentionally got a late start at 10 AM to let the sun warm things a bit. The parking lot at the Linda Vista trailhead was full, about 15-20 cars. I parked in a nearby shopping center in front of a Dunn Edwards paint ...

I love this header photo! Thanks for updating it.

Thats a nice big day!

The High Sierra is awesome and all, but I always feel intrigued by all the surrounding 'lower' peaks that are still so rugged and oak-adorned like this one.


I am really in love with the southern Sierra around Ridgecrest. Owens Peak is a favorite and I've enjoyed several ...

With unusually warm weather for December, I drove to Walker Pass Trailhead for the standard route to Morris Peak (HPS #109) and Mount Jenkins (HPS #73). The trailhead is off highway 178 near Ridgecrest. I was greeted with a sunrise filtered through the joshua trees. Most of the hike was along the ...

Congrats on getting to the river and back in one day. It's a big hike. I think South Kaibab has better views than Bright Angel, but both are great.

Thanks for checking this out. This is one I've long avoided since I dislike private property inholdings and have gotten burned by police (well, warned) on closed Irvine Company trails. The signs on the fence suggest that hiking is OK as long you don't wander in the San Dimas forest. I'll keep in my ...

You turned what passersby might see as a homeless night on a water tank into a deeply human moment of introspection and connection.

I hiked Emma -> Old Emma -> road back to truck in 2024. Solo.

There was a lot of trash on the Old Emma summit.

While walking back along the road, a black Nissan truck took interest and pulled over at a turnout a few hundred feet in front of me. I kept walking toward it. After waiting about 30 ...

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I was in Phoenix for business and looked for an interesting mountain to hike on the way back. There are a lot good desert hikes close to the I-10 corridor. I settled on Big Horn Peak about an 1 hour 15 minutes west of Phoenix. From I-10, I exited at Salome Road. Google Maps suggested some oddball ...

Sean and I tried to take the Allison Mine trail from Heaton last year and it was in awful shape.

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I think your odds are better going up the gulch.

You sure timed that right. Those aspens were on fire! Thanks for posting.

JeffH wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 7:21 pm Is navigation completely necessary or is it picking what appears to be the path of least rock and stickers?

The route is pretty obvious whether you do the ridge or stay in the gully. The summit is in sight most of the way.

I had two headlamps and I'm OK with night hiking, esp since it was near a full moon. The main issue was worries about the solo part, esp since I had a rock fall into me on nearby Eagle Mtn, breaking a rib, causing a small pneumothorax, and leading to overnight accommodations in Glendale Adventist ...

Pinto was pretty cool. It's on the DPS list so gets a little more traffic than otherwise. The summit had a unique cactus wire art thingy. Since the approach was long, it takes some time. You should give it another go when you have plenty of time.

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There are seven HPS peaks along the Yucaipa Ridge, counting Galena. I had climbed five of them on previous hikes, and now I was going after the two middle peaks: Cedar Mountain (HPS #57) and Wilshire Peak (HPS #41). Between the two was Oak Glen Peak, almost unavoidable on the traverse. The closest ...

Not today. The tram wasn't running, so there was no temptation.


Tram always closes near the end of September for maintenance. Open again 10/13/25 this year.

Leatherneck is still on my to do list (maybe), but I am not up for hiking back down. Hard to beat a Shock Top at the bar before riding ...

25 is a short round trip for Kings. I went via Henrys Fork, spending two nights and the RT would be 34 miles if one stays on trail. We chopped a few off by skirting the ridge just after Gunsight pass and then scree-skiing down the other to get back into the basin. Lots of rock to cross up high ...

My road trip was mixed: https://goalhiking.org/s/gsrt2025
I should have done Kings Peak after CO, but I had to get back.
I hope to do Longs next summer.


Looks like a solid trip to me.

CO has a bunch of easy 14ers, but you still have to deal with the altitude. I'm also considering Longs for ...