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Have you gone into these tunnels before? How deep do they go? Anything interesting inside?

A few of us did some cold riding in the rain today. Towards the end, the skies cleared, and the mountains popped out. It's alpine out there! South Hawkins, Baden-Powell, Rattlesnake: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/DSCF5468.jpg?variant=medium2 Iron, Baldy: https://gal.secretsauce.net...

Who are all these people?

The best official word is the map stonehillnews transcribed from the ANF order: https://caltopo.com/m/9KEQ It clearly shows that E of Three Points the PCT is closed, but I have heard that some things (the road for instance) are open past where they claim. No idea what the actual conditions are. Has ...

Thanks for the update. Do you know who worked on it?

I think it's this: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.2995 ... magery&n=1

The trough is the white rectangular thing.

Sean wrote: ↑Was the trough downhill from Oak Spring? Maybe it was for horses.

It was near the top end (South) of the Oak Spring trail. And it was completely surrounded by barbed wire, so a horse wouldn't be able to get in. I suspect that it maybe wasn't an open trough when it was built originally?

Yeah, what David said. The initial part, in Big Tujunga is a bit overgrown, but not too bad. Gold Canyon is wide-open and easy to walk. The trailbed on the climb up is decent, but overgrown. We cleared the lower sections until an easier ridge option opened up. A day or two of dedicated work can clea...

You found one of my business cards! Those things are so silly, they're awesome. Also, that was a long day:
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This was cool. Thanks for getting me out there, David! The glider is now a pretty nice campsite: the wings are propped up to serve as a good windbreak (with p-cord guy-wires even!) and there's a good fire ring in the middle.

This was sweet! Thanks, Taco for suggesting it. Here're some of my photos. First night's campsite just short of Cajon Pass: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/Mojave/2021-BikeTour-DeathValley-MojaveNationalPreserve/DSCF5093.jpg?variant=medium2 The Cottonwood Mountains (where Inconceivable Canyon is...

I don't know enough to concur or disagree, but isn't it way too large to come from a racoon?

Way too little snow to ski down on that trip. Also way too little back-country skiing experience and equipment

I feel like Elon got bored of that. He's now selling Teslas for bitcoin in Texas.

I don't know if the routes from the East or West are any easier, but they're definitely shorter. Mopah looks pretty cool. I'll keep that in mind for when I'm out that way. Have you climbed that one?

Neat! Thanks for posting. There's another approach from the other side. It is shorter, and legal, but you end up directly at the Goat Canyon Trestle, skipping all the other stuff. Your route is cool.

That's a very eagly "Eagle Rock"! A bit better than the one in NELA probably. And WAY better than the one in the Santa Monicas. That one isn't eagly at all.

Nice trip! You're becoming the expert of that area. The photos don't look too burned. Are you outside the Sand fire area now, or did the small brush regrow by now?

So if one followed those line, they'd end at the high point?

It's what Jeff said: there was an "Apple DOS": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS
TIL

Cool trip! These are really obscure. How did you decide to climb them? Are they on some list somewhere?

Once done Trilobiting , I was originally planning to go ride a bike towards some way off-pavement mountain, then camp and climb it the following day. But this was sounding hard. So I decided instead to take care of some unfinished business. Last winter I wanted to ride through Nightmare Gulch in Red...

After I was done walking around in the Providence Mountains I drove to Cadiz on the Southern edge of the Marble Mountains. Some of the shale here is supposed to contain Trilobite fossils, and I wanted to poke around. This place feels like the end of the earth. It's the end of pavement, which itself ...

I had a 4-day weekend, so I went to goof off in the desert. Wanted to climb some obscure-yet-high peak to look at stuff, and to avoid humans. The Providence Mountains are remote and high, and I've haven't been there yet. There's a low pass that splits the range into two halves, so I decided to summi...

The Apple II software? Those machines didn't have hard disks. There was a BASIC interpreter in the BIOS, or you could run applications by booting into them from diskettes. There was a "DOS" you could run from a diskette? 3.3 was a very common version of MS-DOS. It's all meant to confuse.

I'm confused. Why do you have Apple-branded "DOS 3.3 sample programs for II, IIe and IIc"? What does that even mean?

Alright, so the LA Times did a little exposé on this Callahan fellow, and the police then decided to arrest the guy. On 1908/09/09 the LA times had this to say on page 5: 1908-09-09.jpg This article also describes his "Gold Bullfrog Mining Company" scam. The Bullfrog mines were in the Gold...

Are you sure you're looking at the full-size images? Which article is worst-readable for you?

These are the most "original" images I have access to (although I can play with the brightness, which maybe would improve things). Everything's sorta readable. These are all from newspapers.com. I finally broke down, and gave them money. Never used the UCR archive, but compared to the LAPL...

Boy do I have good news for you. 360KB is the capacity of the original 5.25" floppy, but at some point in the 1980s, the higher-density disks came out that could store a whopping 1.2MB! That is 1.2 MILLION bytes, or almost 10 MILLION bits. That's a lot.