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So I've been wanting to explore the difficult section of the Arroyo Seco: Brown Mountain Dam to Switzers. To do that, I've been searching for a relatively non-painful access point to the canyon bottom in that section. In theory, the Gabrielino runs the whole way, with several connecting trails, but ...

Those are a couple of my "I've only got 40 minutes" spots to go for a walk. So you've gone up the ridge to Flint Peak? Find any antlers? I've gone there quite a bit, and never saw a soul. There's a strange patchwork of open space parcels scattered around the San Rafael Hills. Seems that G...

cahikr wrote: ↑Is Rupert a Beaver or a Marmot?

I'm assuming Marmot because of where I found him (away from water, on a hillside at the treeline) and the size (skull is about 9cm long). If you have more informed thoughts, I'd love to hear them.

They are witness posts. They are used to locate benchmarks Oh that's interesting. So they live next to the USGS markers in the ground? I feel like I've seen at least one markerless one before: Iron Mt south ridge, off to the side of the trail. Wonder what that one was for, then. Will try to find it...

Some peaks in the San Gabriels have metal signs on them with some sort of code written on an inverted triangle, like this W15 on top of Iron Mountain: http://pub.secretsauce.net/w15.jpg There's a W5 on top of Lookout Mountain, and I've seen a number of others I can't recall right now. Does anybody k...

walker wrote: ↑and most people could tell you without drilling any holes that a tunnel under the San Gabriel Mountains is probably darn near infeasible

Unless "most people" are geologists or civil engineers, I wouldn't put much weight into their thoughts on the matter

I went up to the mine via Allison Gulch in the spring. I had always heard/assumed the same thing but was surprised to find that the "trail" bypassing the falls in the gorge had been worked by someone and was pretty straightforward once you found it. The last time I was in the area (3 year...

Dude! The idea I had but never did would be a shorter, yet brutal Baldy - Iron - Baden Powell route. Head up Baldy - San Antonio Ridge - Iron - Northwest Ridge (check out Stanley Miller mine - Iron Fork - up south east ridge of Ross (cross country brush but maybe not too bad) Ross mtn, Baden Powell...

Lynx Gulch is now SoCal Edison territory....in exchange for the transmission lines, SoCal Edison is tasked with managing the upper Tujunga per FS protocol under the guise of rehabilitation required. ARTO is Arroyo Toad. Thanks for that. Is everything that's now managed by SCE technically closed? Is...

Today I went to Red Box, intending to summit Lawlor, to take the ridge to Barley Flats, and then check out some other stuff in the area that I've never visited before. Oddly, two of the trails I wanted to check out had loud environmental closure signage, so I cut the day short, which was just as wel...

He does clean up nicely!

On Saturday tekewin and I woke up early to climb Cloudripper, a 13525 ft peak in the Sierra Nevada, in the Inconsolable Range. We started by South Lake, climbed up to Brown Lake: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SierraNevada/Cloudripper/DSCF9124.JPG?variant=medium and got the first glimpse of Vag...

I do notice a couple potential inaccuracies in the OSM dataset in the area. First, the segment from Lupine to Cabin Flat has been officially declassified as a road (no motor vehicles allowed), but OSM thinks it's a "track" suitable for jeeps. Second, it lacks the Vincent Gulch trail from ...

On Saturday Sean, Cecelia, Alex and I went to the Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness to check out the 1966 wreckage of a C119 cargo plane ( http://www.av.qnet.com/~carcomm/wreck25.htm ). We started out by climbing up and over the bumps that comprise Mount Williamson: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/...

missy wrote: ↑I stumbled upon this mine by chance a few months ago. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the shack perched on the side of the mountain!

Oh wow, that's a great way to find it! I read Hugh Blanchard's report and then studied to topo maps and the aerial imagery. Not as cool, but it worked.

Joe_the_Hiker wrote: ↑Neither give away it's location

I'd like people to at least make a little bit of effort. Big hint: it's marked accurately on the USGS topo map.

Gene: I was assuming it was lowered with cables somehow, but knew nothing of the specifics. Thanks for the details! Sean: I went in, but it didn't go back very far. The lagoldmines.com description says 60 feet, which sounds about right to me. That site is all about the shack and compressor, which ar...

I got an itch to go climb something today, so a spur-of-the-moment trip was on. I went to Chilao, dropped down a gully (from the start of the road to the Stony Ridge Observatory) to a bigger gully, climbed up a bit, and found equipment: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/BellHartman/DSC...

How hard would it be to factor in vegetation density? CalTopo stats include Tree Cover and Land Cover. Typically I think it is harder to bushwhack through dense shrub areas than dense tree areas. Including vegetation density would require significantly more work; at the very least the method I'm us...

So Sean, tekewin and I were talking about what the least accessible location in the San Gabriels would be. It seems like it'd be a worthwhile place to visit if we only knew where it was. Well, wonder no more: http://caltopo.com/m/4N7A Defining "accessibility" by how close the nearest road/...

The proposal in the article isn't a software one, anyway. They're proposing better signal processing in hardware that is able to get high quality tracking results even with the shitty GPS antenna in a phone. They're using just the antenna part of the phone in their tests.

What they said. Also: Mining detritus at the Pianobox prospect: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/RedrockLoop/DSCF8304.JPG?variant=large Keith on the ridge... https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/RedrockLoop/DSCF8312.JPG?variant=large ... and on top https://gal.secretsauce.n...

Maybe you stumbled upon my secret route from the Lone Tree down into the East Fork of Rubio. It's been awhile since I worked on it. The lower segment is simply a steep, rocky gully. The upper section is mostly a deer path that I improved a little. Could be. Did you leave a pickaxe just sitting there?

I've climbed up the Lone Tree trail many times. Near the top is a nice forested area where I've seen deer and (unsuccessfully) searched for antlers. I've also hiked Echo Mountain via the waterfalls, fixed ropes and the West fork of Rubio creek many times. When walking to the fixed ropes, you turn of...

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This dude just hiked the whole thing.

I hiked up the ridge from before the first tunnel last year. It burned in the 2012 Williams Fire, so not terribly recent, but recent enough. I haven't been to the ridge from past the second tunnel, but it burned last year. Looks like this from the ridge up big Iron: https://gal.secretsauce.net/trave...

The easiest route is recently burned and unpleasant. There's no vegetation at all until the top. The other route is burned recently too, so it's probably like that as well, but I haven't seen it. I'd find a better peak.

Loop route: https://en.komoot.de/tour/4271988 I last did it a few years ago. Trail above dawn mine to Tom Sloane saddle was fairly faint, but with a map and a GPS receiver it was findable. It would be very difficult otherwise. The west ridge of Brown Mt is very steep, but was passable at that time. ...

Is this it?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13085 ... -117.80891

I'm partial to the one just below Muir Peak. Means I'm almost there.

On some level the title makes sense, since this trip was indeed an attempt to reach Stanley-Miller Mine. On another level, I barely made any progress in this area. There's a lot of water in the river, and in a few spots in the Narrows, I was unprepared to cross. https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/S...