EISPIRATEN

So we have a (very slow) trial. Did they find gold? Do we keep our railroad? A year later, the case was resolved. On 1905/10/19 the LA times (page 17) said 1905-10-19.jpg They didn't find gold in "sufficient quantities", so the claims were invalidated, and we got to keep our railroad! This...

It describes Mrs. Griffith's divorce application from Mr. Griffith (the "Griffith Park" guy) after he shot her in the face. The divorce was granted in record time. There's a city park (and observatory!) that needs renaming. I propose Bad Hubby Park (and Bad Hubby Observatory). Heh. Yeah. ...

So apparently the railway was already built and operating at this time, which makes this whole episode even more ballsy. The issue was that Pacific Electric hasn't bothered to survey the rights-of-way. Anywho, on 1904/07/10, the LA times (page 13) talked to the miners' lawyer, who said that they wan...

I only accept 5.25" floppies.

So the future sounded bright, but there was a problem. A careful reader would note that the mining claims overlap some parts of the Mt. Lowe railway. This wasn't yet constructed, but the land was acquired, and plans were made. The railway right-of-way was granted by Congress, but any conflicting min...

Also, the photo of me walking up did something funny with the colors: it makes it appear like there was lots of snow in the bowl on the right. Most of the white areas are sunlit rocks, not snow.

Nice artistic sunset photo!

This was awesome. Not a ton of snow left, but we did find some mostly-untouched lines on the far left of the bowl, almost at the trail.

As expected, the Angels Gold Mining Company filed some gold mining claims, 3 years after incorporating. On 1904/07/09 the LA evening express (page 19) had this to say: 1904-07-09--1.jpg Super! The plat maps are available from the LA department of public works: https://pw.lacounty.gov/smpm/landrecord...

walker wrote: ↑I walked valley forge trail to eaton saddle brushing up against it and realized about three days later what all those pretty purple flowers were.

That is 100% what happened to me. That trail was completely overgrown with pretty little purple flowers

I just stumbled on something really interesting. This will take a few posts. First, this happened:

(Los Angeles Daily Times. 1901/8/9 Page 10)

What did this Angels Gold Mining Company do? Find out in the next post!

I have deep professional interest here. You've actually tried out the WebODM tools? Can you talk about your experiences with it? What have you asked it to do, and how well did it work?

Oh, and the buildings in the imagery are actually known to the assessor (and hence appear on the osm map). They are: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/472888467 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/472888201 The assessor's IDs and the building IDs are there. I doubt these are mines. Are there cattle or...

These are just outside of the Forest Service land, so my guess it's some part of the ranch-looking-thing to the South. These buildings aren't there on the 1959 aerials, but do appear on the 1968 aerials, with a road from the South. Caltopo doesn't list the land to the South as being a private inhold...

Pasadena Star-News. 1957/6/30. Describes the in-progress and not-yet-abandoned road to Vincent Gap high above the East Fork. At article time, they were cutting the first tunnel. The plans were grand, and the whole project was supposed to take 20 years. I also like the full-page leading photo. highwa...

I'm no expert, but from what I know, pointed ends usually mean "carnivore". So yeah, I'd say big cat.

I want to say the metal ones are more expensive and far heavier. The plastic ones do work quite well, though. Branches about 1" in diameter go easy. This time I tried to cut something that was maybe 1.5", and I had to push hard to break it. Lesson learned.

According to the 1937/10/25 issue of the LA times, the East Fork is better than the ditch in Arizona in almost every way:



Don't tell anybody.

Hah. Then AllTrails would put it into the stratosphere!

These were the indeed the lightweight Fiskars ones. I don't feel right complaining about this: I tried to cut a branch that was too thick, and broke the plastic anvil. These weren't new, and served me well, and I'm ok giving them another $20.

Actually, looking at the history, this was actually fixed in version 3: in May 2016! AllTrails is not good at what they do.

I gave it a number in feet, and it was interpreted as a number in meters.

Also, I should maybe say that I was the one who messed it up to begin with

This was fixed on Jan 22: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2174721771

AllTrails needs to get their act together!

I went back to Bichota canyon yesterday to seek buried treasure. And this time, Taco and Danny joined me. Taco found some "rock" at the Bichota canyon mouth, and tried to climb it. https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/SanGabriels/Bichota2/DSCF4785.jpg?variant=medium2 The canyon has a bit le...

Awesome! I've missed reading these reports

So I've always wondered how popular these kinds or routes are. Do you feel like you know everybody who descends canyons like this?

Where is this?

Awesome! Thanks for posting those. I keep meaning to go out there, but it's a bit far.

Cool trip! I took this in the spring from the hot springs below:



San Rafael is the bump on the left, I think. Could you see the springs from the top?

Thanks for the photos. Is that Lookout Mountain in front of Baldy? I've never seen it from that angle.