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That gate was always overly fortified for some reason. Jeff: there are other access points that are more siege-prone

Images don't show up. Can you host them somewhere public? It might require a google login or something.

Almost. This prospect goes back just a few feet. Whoever dug it lost interest quickly, and the hole tapers quickly. Not good for spelunking, but the bees like it: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/2021-10-30--Tanoble-mine-honeycombs/DSCF6265.JPG?variant=medium2 There isn't a single bee...

Sean wrote: ↑Nice. I'm betting it's full of bats.

You're not quite right, but shockingly close. I'll give you another guess.

You missed the turnoff too? I totally did that. I also missed the exit to the 138, and had to tag Hesperia.

Sure, yeah. Why not. The photo above is a drone shot?

At the Eastern tip of Blue Ridge (34.32737, -117.60765):

Thanks for setting this up, Sean. Here's a few photos I took. I climbed to the top of Gobbler's Knob at the beginning. There's a bullet-ridden triangular post there. This is also the only point in the day when Baldy was visible. It was hidden behind Dawson peak at all other times. https://gal.secret...

Why did you take that photo??

Yeah, that sounds right. Just checking The one time we tried to ride the dirt part of 3N06, it felt just rough enough to not be worth the effort. But we were also tired

Yo. How much of 3N06 did you ride and how much did you walk? After the pavement ends at the shooting range? And what about the trail up to Windy Gap? Can you climb that thing on your bike?

FYI, the National Parks are still open. It's the NFs that are shut. Look into doing that, maybe?

Fine by me. I get all the arguments about this being a public forest, and that limiting the public is thus wrong. But there's clearly too much demand here, and the forest service should be doing SOMETHING (this sorta thing is why we have a forest service; if there was infinite forest, it wouldn't ne...

I might need a summary of a summary. From what I think I just read: - This is about East Fork Rd, from the confluence, all the way to Heaton Flat - There are 48 official parking spots, with total room for ~417 cars, in the official spots and along the road - People are gross, and make a huge mess. S...

That's WEST Fuji. Or maybe the saddle N of it

When it rains stickers, it pours.

I almost feel stupid asking this, but what is that section of trail that all of you seem to have pictures of? Is it the PCT between Baden-Powell and Islip somewhere?

That's too bad. Do you know if it's actually private?

Taco wrote: ↑Looks like it's been cleaned up!

I guess this was the right place to complain!

And yet he always looks unimpressed.

Markham is a popular place for rock piles I guess. Here's Markham from a while back (and a dog)

Fun fact: the metric, british and american tons (whatever the spellings are) are all different things.

You've ridden Rincon after the fire, or before? David: I would expect the Bear Canyon trail IN THE CANYON to be hard-closed right now: the fire hit that drainage hard. Normally that trail is medium-overgrown, and crosses the creek constantly. From the Valley of the Moon trailhead on the 39 it maybe ...

That's lots of info. Thanks. I'll probably buy one of those tools you mentioned. And since I've gone through several pairs of the fiskars loppers, I guess I can provide more detail. They're cheap and shockingly light and work really well. As Taco mentioned, they work much better with live plants tha...

Yeah, those loppers are good, but they're kinda slow. You need to cut each branch individually, which takes time. I use these if clearing a trail I know I'll be coming back to. If it's a one-time bushwhack, though, I generally just push through. Taco uses a machete of some sort.

That all sounds right. After thinking about this for a few more days, I think the biggest issue was Taco's underbiking. I could ride enough of this thing to not get too angry at it, and it felt attainable with enough skill, so working on it was fun almost. But it's unforgiving to a lesser bike, so a...

HikeUp wrote: ↑ 5 Baldy summits via Ski Hut trail. I think he started around 3am and finished around 11:30pm.

OK. Next question: did he have any fun?

I read that trip report. To clarify: did Rick summit 5 separate peaks, or did he summit Baldy 5 times in a row? Which routes?

It's the exciting section of that ridge. Probably many people have that photo. And Elwood knew exactly where it was

I don't think of myself as a "mountain biker", but I've been doing more of that recently. And this was a trip to be able to make that claim. I started riding on Wed night in central LA. The MTB is clearly slower than a road bike, but it's really not that bad: I was averaging 17-18mph on th...