EISPIRATEN

Having seen pictures of Japan’s Mount Fuji, it was a peak I had always wanted to climb. Well I finally got the chance when I was in the country last week. Fuji at 12385’ is the highest Peak in Japan, it’s located about 60 miles from Tokyo and it took me two trains, one taxi and one bus ride to arriv...

Congratulations Jeff,

Beautiful pics, great report. Now we all want to do it.

Phil

Nice pics/report Uncle Rico, That must have been a RELIEF finding a potty, no seriously, that's a great hike, but your right driving up that road really messes up the car, still it's worth the price of a car wash to do it.

Phil

Spence and I hiked up twin Peaks and Waterman on Saturday (7/27), and I thought it was worth a mention that the spring on the trail to Twin Peaks Saddle seemed to be flowing fairly well, considering the dry year that we have had. The Sierra Club were also on the mountain, having a gathering/event up...

Yeah, have seen several in that area, but, particularly around the bottom of Falling Rock Cyn, I recall one that I could hear from at least 50' away, don't know if it was me approaching or if an animal had spooked it to rattle like that, still I appreciated the warning.

A worthy cause indeed.

That's an informative report Mattcav, to be honest I had not heard of the Upper Reyes Trail before, is there an Upper Reyes Peak? if so how far out from the trailhead is it?
Phil

Oh No! I'm in big trouble! I only knock six times before entering the mens restroom. Great set of pics Everyday, love the bear shots.

I stuck as close to the spine as possible, dropping to one side or the other to navigate around the rock outcrops as they occurred, I don't recall anything more than 3rd class rock scrambling and topped out maybe 30/40 feet to the left (northish) of the summit.
Phil

Sean, I agree with the descent route (in red), but, personally prefer to stay on top of the ridge and head straight up to the summit on the ascent.
The rocks on that ridge did'nt bother me and staying out of the trees helped to keep me on track especially with the evening drawing in.
Phil

Nice set of pics, that 2000' return back up to Baden-Powell can be a bear.

Good report Sean, Looks like much of the brush/bushes have been burned away on that section beyond the first bump after Rattlesnake, hopefully its made the going a little easier. Glad you had the experience to pick a good exit route off of S Hawkins when your water ran out, that would have been a ki...

Having a few days off this week I headed up to the Sierras. First on my list was Lone Pine Peak, it's prominent peak is often mistaken by unfamiliar travelers as Mount Whitney, and, at 12944' high definitely worth bagging. Setting off at dusk (06/05/2013) I headed up the Meysan Lakes Trail for about...

Nice pics Uncle, looks like you had a beautiful day out there, especially coming from Dawson Saddle. It sucks that people are removing the trail registers, it was there a year ago(as shown below). I think I will get in the habit of always carrying a spare notebook in my pack to replace missing logs....

Hi MattCav, Glad you made it back to the car OK, sorry that your trip did not work out as planned, but I'm glad you had the good sense to make the right decision, and that, you should feel good about. I had a similar experience once when I drove all night to get to the Sierras and started hiking wit...

I know that the last two weekends the Parking lot at the Ski lift was charging $5.00 a car, did'nt think they did that out of ski season.

I go along with that HJ, and personally, I have always felt that USGS 7.5 topos are the favourite when off trail or in remote areas. At about 6/7 bucks apiece thats cheap insurance for something that can get you out of a though situation. Of course, you also need the orientation skills to go with it...

Seems like it was 2005 when I last did this one, I loved the hike through the canyon/narrows ect. but davantalus is dead right the car shuttle sucks.

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Epic hike and great report Sean, Any excuse for the Ultimate cheeseburger and large curly fries - no need to feel guilty about that.

It's been a couple of years since I was last on Lookout, thought I read somewhere that Sunset Peak was also involved in the light/speed experiments.
It always surprises me how much history is in our mountains.

P

Congratulations Guys, Great report and pics, yes, Iron Mountain is generally regarded as one of the more enduring hikes in the San Gabs. Sounds like you had a real fun day out.

Cheers,

Phil

Hi Bonan, Thanks for the great report, glad you had a good time. I was up there on Saturday and conditions were pretty much as you described except that on the summit there was no wind at all just blue skies. That changed on the way down as a few clouds rolled in. The snow was fairly consolidated so...

I noticed a few months back that all the register/log boxes between San Bernadino Peak and Charlton Peak had the lids ripped off and the log-in books were torn up, I don't know whats up with some people, tearing down the wind shelters on Baldy is real antisocial behaviour, I wonder if they are the s...

Hey yobtaf, I worked with a guy once who said his Grandfather owned or managed(not sure which) Hoegees Camp many years ago. He told me that people use to vacation there, apparently it even had a tennis court. I have'nt hiked there in a long while, but, your right there is plenty of shade under all t...

Hi Jeff,

Very nice pics and report, looks like you made pretty good time to beat the afternoon weather. Funny how that last two miles seems to last forever.

Cheers Phil

As of Saturday(9/29/2012) there was still water flow from the stream at the Ski Hut, there was also water flow from the little streams just below the Hut, but I would wait until you get to the Ski Hut to filter your drinking water.

Phil

Nice pics, yeah you got into some serious hiking/bushwacking there. The ridge you pointed out Rattlesnake to South Hawkins has taken some major burns over the years as has much of the area, with the lack of tree cover it can get pretty hot hiking some of those areas.

Outstanding trip report Jim, You know it never occured to me until I read your blog,. that there are 24, 10 K peaks in socal, after thinking about it I realise that I have only done half of them. So now I have another goal, to tag all 24. I assume you took the trail head off of Jenks Lake Road, look...

Nice trip report Mattcav, it sounds like you got quite creative cooking dinner, I guess thats all part of the necessary skills required when backpacking. I must agree the Jennie Lakes Wilderness is beautiful, I've been to Jennie Lake and as I recall we hiked out of Stoney Creek TH, though we did not...

Way to go, that looks like a blast.