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I would hesitate to tell people of the exact location so that they area won't be trashed. But I have the GPS tracks and I might be willing to share.


Thanks for the links and photos! Definitely looks amazing and intense! I've seen similar on both sides of the greater Frazier Park/PMC areas but ...

HikeUp wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 8:46 am Why do people hate golf courses? Listening to George Carlin too much?

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/golf-cou ... tal-impact

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Great write up and photos! My buddy and I did a car shuttle hike in 2017. We hiked from Upper Bear Creek TH to Smith Saddle down to Bear Creak, then all the way downstream to West Fork Day Use TH. Beautiful area with lots of stream crossings. We did see one tent & hammock very close to where Upper ...

Interesting article on Eugene Jo's rescue and some bad intel given to SARs initially. One thing that seems strange is it says they set out to hike 2 miles in, have lunch, and then 2 miles back. That seems very strange if they left from Three Points on the Waterman trail because 2 miles in puts one ...

Are alltrails paying you? Why are you working for them for free? OSM is the public map dataset you can contribute to, if you want to improve the public map. Alltrails displays this also, and also doesn't contribute in any way. They're leeches, and yall should just let them suck.


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This is when Alltrails can really backfire from a safety perspective - anonymously-posted trails that aren't actually trails in high-traffic areas luring the naive and unprepared into things like sketchy waterfall climbs up informally-attached ropes, etc. I'm not sure what sort of reliable ...

Went back to the trail today to test cell phone coverage...


My iPhone 13 had almost no coverage up there yesterday. Probably depends a lot on your carrier. All the searchers in June were told she had an older phone, no hiking apps, and her battery was dead by the time they were coming down ...

This map might help people understand the theories (we'll post a list of theories tomorrow). The black line is the paved Angeles Crest Highway (ACH; CA2). The purple line is the Upper West Ridge Trail that the hikers took that day. The red dots indicate key points discussed. The two other trails are ...

they were able to determine exactly when her phone stops pinging at a point on Mt Waterman

Hopefully that's not what I said! I think I said only that the last ping they found was around 9:02.

I'm not sure I'm confident in cell pings because everything we've been told is law enforcement isn't ...

Am I understanding correctly what this PiaTequila account is claiming? That these 5 additional hikers who initially RSVP'd but then bailed and who coincidentally are associated with Subject A, are the same ones who were ready to go and arrived shortly after Monica went missing to form the initial ...

...if the comment on Reddit is true, and I don't know whether it's true or not, it would challenge almost everything that's been said or written about this case since June 22, 2025.

My brain hurts reading all the drivel on Reddit. People that never searched for her or anyone else in the wild ...

For what it's worth, I chatted with a SAR person that was involved in the search. He didn't know anything about the conspiracies or the drama, and he thought a mountain-lion attack was most likely.


We had heard from experts that said SAR personnel are trained to look for signs of animal attacks ...

David R wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2026 10:39 am The Blair Witch Project was based on hikers disappearing in the Waterman Area...

The search dogs did not track her to north slope but rather south.


Did search dogs actually find a scent? This is the first I've heard of that. All I've read was that they were not very useful and they stopped using them after a couple of days. I know there were posts saying dogs tracked her ...

Gene wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2026 8:22 am For the conspiracy theorists, the trail crosses a dirt road that might have provided access for abductors.

None of the trails west or south of Waterman cross a dirt road. And the dirt roads east of Waterman are for the ski resort and require access to locked gates.

Non-snowy AllTrails reviews seem to indicate the route isn't obvious to many...

It really is puzzling to me. I first did the west ridge trail in 2016 with no apps or map of any kind. I had seen the gate at the start of the old dirt road (6000' parking) so I looked up satellite views of it and ...

With Monica Reza back in the news I looked around for a video that showed the hike, the surroundings, and locations of key places on the trail. I didn't find one, so I made one.

https://youtu.be/T-1Q_3nud44


First, congrats on a great and thorough video. Very well done and definitely gives ...

Anyway I'm probably going to try for Rabbit on Sun 4/12 since the weather looks OK. I'd probably start around 5am. I'll have a SpotX but I'd prefer not to do it alone if anyone's interested. I'm OK with paying for their gas.


That's about 3+ hour drive for me and more mileage/gain than I'm used ...

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It's been tough for anyone to get accurate information even in the beginning of Monica's disappearance. But your article mentions "mapped every search track on CalTopo to prevent overlap across a 40 to 50 mile radius". Not sure where this information ...

JeffH wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 6:36 pm This looks like a really nice area. How far is Lily Meadows from that trailhead?

Just under 4 miles from the North Fork TH.

Matthew wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 9:17 pm Careful bro. Melted snow is as dangerous as non melted snow. Close baldy

Any idea if the 40% chance of rain Tuesday night is going to bring new snow to the mountains?

I looked into it and this gives an overview of those type of formation.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/badl-g ... ations.htm

Still not sleeping well and my cardio is severely lacking so I wanted something moderate but the weather is warm or roads are closed or trails are crowded. In 2024 I went from the Nordic Center to Mt Pinos, Sawmill, Sheep Camp, and then attempted to reach Lily Meadows but ran out of energy and time ...

My dad sent this to me. Makes the whole lore go a level deeper with fun.


One of the searchers from last summer sent me the same thing recently. My opinion is it's probably nothing. If a government agency was behind this, why would they start doing mysterious disappearances when you can makes ...

Matthew wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 10:41 am Man! I wanna have a party in front of that fireplace!

The wind wall fireplace and three chairs is about 500' east of the summit pile. Some people spent some time making those things! It's is beautiful up there.

dima wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 11:04 am Looks so nice. At this point I'm always surprised to see unburnt forest. Find anything more than prints?

Nope, just the prints, fresh air, and solitude.

I hadn't done any hiking for three weeks and too hot most places so I went to Frazier Park. Then I decided to try a challenge by going from the parking lot to Sawmill entirely off-trail. I basically just stuck to the same elevation so I moved laterally for most of the four miles. About 8.5 miles w ...

Nice route! I'm impressed that you closed the loop and did the route so quickly. I did much of the same route in 2021 but required two hikes on different days. The blue one was a car shuttle starting at Pico Canyon Park and the green one was just an out-n-back where we didn't think we could keep ...

On our way down Baldy Bowl Trail after hearing CHP(?)’s PA to come down, my friends and I watched SAR rappel down from the Sheriff’s helicopter and lift up two body bags one by one. Weather was getting shifty right above the helicopter (as seen in photos below) so they were moving fast, probably ...

Remind me - did other people see her on the trail besides the two hikers she was with?


Not clear how many other hikers they ran across on the way up or on the summit. Supposedly cameras on one of their cars confirmed the three were there on day/time they said to start the hike. And supposedly ...