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Today I hiked up Burrito Peak (point 2510, SW of Burro peak). Had vague plans to keep going to Burro and beyond, but it was hot, and I wasn't feeling it. Starting at the Rincon fire station made the most sense. They had angry-looking no-trespassing signs, though, so I started at the OHV area instead...

OK, fine. What's his name?

Sweet! How'd you get in and out of Saline Valley? I've been wanting to ride over the Inyos.

Sweet ride! I'd be down to do S6 sometime. Tell me about the contrail. Tarptent doesn't admit to selling that anymore. Is the "protrail" a similar thing?

I saw one of those TV survival stories about a similar incident (might have been that exact incident, actually). I got the sense that the woman learned the wrong lesson. At the end she was really thankful to god for being rescued. I feel like it would be more productive to thank SAR, and to get a cl...

Oh, not quite. She told family she was leaving, but not where she was going. And it took days to figure out what part of the forest she was in. Sad story.

My understanding is that this woman didn't tell anybody where she was going, so she was reported missing days after she got lost. And then a storm came in. That's a lesson for the rest of us.

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
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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 ...