EISPIRATEN

The dead guy was a motorcyclist? You ok?

Fine. I'll do it, so that you don't have to

You don't need the #, but you probably just need to wait. It's a BIG map, and could take a minute or two to load.

Yeah, that is amazing. There's only one place in the mountains I've been to this many times.

I totally clicked.

Is the trail to Lookout Mountain from Cow Canyon saddle still there? We were on the road up to Sunset Peak a few weeks ago, and I couldn't see it at all. What I could see is that the old RV park property has burned. But it's still full of people shooting guns: it sounded like a full-on firing range ...

Wait, what's a "camping" cezve?

I grabbed HikeUp's first image. mikeywally: I'll use yours next time if you send a bigger image. I scale them down to 2000 pixels horizontally. Thanks!

It's not winter anymore. Send me a new front-page photo!

Sweet. Good luck! Is the cocos dura thing also doing the satellite tracking, or you need a separate gizmo for that?

Knowing you and knowing your immense fear of rope climbing just a year ago, I am beyond impressed by these routes and grade! Your level of endurance for all this stuff for back to back days is pretty badass!!!!!

What was it like doing that ropeless approach? Was it easier or harder than bypassing ...

This past weekend, I joined wesweswes in doing his favorite thing: multi-pitch trad climbing. We went to Red Rock Canyon, just outside Las Vegas. I dabble in bouldering at the gym, and have done various unwise things in our local mountains, but I'm not really a climber. Wesweswes is a crusher ...

Thanks for the report! Don't know what causes that cool erosion pattern, but I've seen in before. There's a bunch of it a bit W of where you were, in Quatal canyon:

https://gal.secretsauce.net/DOWNSAMPLED/travels/TourDeLosPadres2023/R0003513-preview.jpg

https://gal.secretsauce.net/DOWNSAMPLED ...

Can you cut/paste the content? I'm not making an account over there, and I'm not loading their scripts.

It's just a big pile of rocks at the top of Sawmill Mt. It's nice up there.

Looks so nice. At this point I'm always surprised to see unburnt forest. Find anything more than prints?

Wait, I don't remember being convinced to bring warm clothes. I didn't even bring my jacket! Brrr

Which side did you start from? And what is an "AT map"?

Matthew wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2026 6:29 am lol I’ll look into that

No. Don't. They suck. Let them suck.

If for some reason you care about google maps fixing their shit, go complain about the upper hwy 39 not being marked as closed.

Google maps is for noobs anyway. Somebody volunteered free labor for a multi-billion dollar corporation, and they didn't do good work. I have trouble being upset by this

What do you do if somebody tries to steal your gold?

That russian graffiti is pretty stupid... Also, you're a rock star. This is awesome. The ACH closure it 3-points-ish to Vincent Gap?

The site now says NOT appropriate. It was a typo!

They're just not good at computers. The updated link: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/angeles/ale ... d-march-20

Oh yeah. I walked around with the horizonator. This is a view to the N from above "the Pothole". Slide Mountain is the big bump in the background

What's that flat area in the middle of your photo?

It is (was?) winter! The last few years we did this:


2023
2024
2025


This was a shit snow year, but we still figured something out. Wes, Deb and I met Taco at Manker flat. Once again, he biked up from the city! Hiked up towards the bowl. It is looking tragic:

https://gal.secretsauce.net ...

Pop quiz! How did they get that truck to the Big Bell site? There aren't any remotely driveable roads anywhere near it. I think I know the answer


I have a couple ideas but I'm scared to say.

1. They took the truck apart completely then reassembled it at the mine.
2. Trestle
3. Offroad all ...

Did you go do it? How was it?