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Matt also contributed a lot of data to openstreetmap, mostly in the mountains. So when yall are looking at strava and whatnot, you're using Matt's work. I've only met Matt once, and it was at a mapping meeing. I never saw him in the mountains, and now I never will, and I'm very sad about that. He ...

I'm doing other things that day. But that area is new to me, and I'd love to see a trip report!

I was just on Big Pine Mountain. The TDLP route is incredible, but it is rough MTB and is long. Big Pine Mountain itself is meh. I hear West Big Pine is better, but I haven't been there.

Just read this more closely. Cool trip! I see you mentioned the two Nike sites. OSM actually maps them both. The control site is just W of the fire station and the launch site is just E of it. Did the HWD ranch seem in use? Was there signage?

I'm not certain how it worked in this area. But in all the Nike sites I know about the launch and operation facilities were in different spots, separated by a mile or so. Could the antenna site have been the operation facility? Cool report, by the way!

The dirt road to Usal beach and then up to Timber ridge and then the stuff around Honeydew and the coastal road above Petrolia. Ooof. Now I want to go.

Don't worry. I think I inadvertently blocked a lot of these people (or robots).

Honestly, just take the ACA map, and do what it says. This is a very straightforward trip, and you'll have plenty of company in the summer. Remind me, and I can lend you a copy of the map.

Oh man. It's totally right. Previously I had problems with it being too aggressive, banning confirmed humans. I detuned it, but I also adjusted the filter regex. After the more specific regex I can probably tighten it again, but I haven't bothered to do that yet. Feel free to play with it. For what ...

More favorable winds usually, and you're on the side of the road with better views of the ocean. All that said, I rode it S -> N (because I liked the idea of leaving from my house) and it was glorious

Yes. All that is correct. I will also say that the CA coast ride north of the bay is better than the ride south of the bay. Think about it. With 21 days you can probably go to Portland, and ride all the way back. It's chill and great and there will be tons of other riders doing it, if you're riding ...

Yeah, Cloudflare or something like it would solve it, but I REALLY don't want to go there yet. We're a location-specific, niche, old-school forum about the mountains. We shouldn't NEED such big hammers to be able to operate. I'm wondering if the recent influx was related to the thread about Monica ...

For what it's worth, I chatted with a SAR person that was involved in the search. He didn't know anything about the conspiracies or the drama, and he thought a mountain-lion attack was most likely.

We're having more overloading issues with people's poorly-behaved scripts, and a dumb geoblocker (like I had before) is no longer enough. I just installed fail2ban to kill the worst offenders, and it seems to be doing the job right now. It's possible I tuned it too aggressively: if you see any ...

Matthew wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 5:07 pm 1. ULTA Beauty Collection Axolotl Bath Bomb
2. 750ml La Fin Du Monde bottle
3. Crayola crayons 24 pack
4. 1.6 gallons of 86 gasoline

Which of those a better store of value than the gold? What if axolotl go extinct?

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.