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If you're talking about the trail that goes up to the ridge to point 2187, then that's the one we took. It's the old road (seen clearly in the aerials and the 3DEP lidar data . The roadbed is still there in most places, and is mostly passable. It's kinda cool, but there isn't anything up there. I'd ...

Cool! You should look at this report from earlier this year: https://eispiraten.com/viewtopic.php?t=9058 We went up Canton Canyon a bit, and climbed to the top following an old road on the South side. Then on the return we went up Canton a bit further to check out the abandoned property. The cows ar...

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Thanks for posting! How much knowledge/experience do you have about gauging avy risk? You talked about this a bit, but in retrospect, do you feel like you maybe should have gone at a different time? Would more knowledge/experience have helped?

And to those confused, this is about a trip on April 20

Awesome! Thanks for organizing. So 10am at the gate that's at Monte Cristo camp? Somebody will meet us to open the gate, and we can drive in?

The great thing about the West ridge of Strawberry is that it's easy enough for anyone to do it. Different people will have a different sense of how death-defying the thing is, but it's all doable. Glad yall finally got out there!

Me too!

If I'm following correctly, your software generates the silhouette profile based on coordinates you feed it (wich is very cool) ....but then how did you first figure out my position? Good old-fashioned human visual recognition? It would take a lot more work to automate the search; doable, but work....

Clearly you were on point 3650: 34.36023,-118.36489. I tell my fancy software to do this: and I get the attached.

I'm a big fan of everything involving the TDLP and the Carrizo Plain

Thanks for the report! I had to look this up, and here's the area in question

Yesterday I climbed Mount Wilson from Eaton Canyon, a bit above Idlehour. The idea was to pick a side drainage, and follow the creek as much as possible, ending up somewhere at the summit area, with a victory coffee at the Cosmic Cafe. It worked! The river has falls https://gal.secretsauce.net/trave...

It looks pretty boar-y. Cool! I've seem them as roadkill in central cal, but never down here.

More photos of the skull requested. Also, you seriously didn't take that with you?

Peak summer is behind us, so Death Valley is visitable again. I just went over there to check out the Albatross . I started walking in the morning from Towne pass. Looking back down from a bit up the hill: https://gal.secretsauce.net/travels/DeathValley/2024-10-13--Death-Valley-Albatross/R0008002.jp...

The fake bokeh of "portrait mode" is so funny. Thanks for the photos

Hard to tell from the photo. IS IT AS BIG AS HER HEAD???

You should do some laps. I like the Lone Tree trail a lot, and one lap up to Muir Peak is 3k. Lots of different trail options for the descent. Repeat as necessary.

Years ago I tried to summit Cobblestone Peak with some people. We drove from Hungry Valley to the end of the road by Sewart peak, started the hike, and then hiked White Mountain instead for some reason. I think it the weather was weird or something? I don't recall. But I do recall the road we drove ...

rdwieting wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:21 am https://recovery.lacounty.gov/bridgefire/ appears to show 5 structures destroyed at the Widman Ranch.

Yeah. We'll see if all those people rebuild. It'll be a while

Going to Cogswell, are you just bushwhacking along the river until you get to the reservoir? How do you get out?

The road from above is clearly seen in the magic high-resolution DEM map:
No clear roads or trails below that. Were you looking for something specific? Or are you exploring every single canyon?

Do you physically have to visit these to pull the data out? So you don't know with 100% certainty what survived and what didn't until you go there?

So sad to see the trees on Granite and Round Top gone. Here's a picture of Granite taken from Round Top 15 years ago... I was wondering what that looked like before the Station Fire, and this photo is exactly what I wanted to see. Thanks. How far below Granite did the trees extend to? Did Rabbit ha...

Ah thanks. Thompson Ranch is to the left of the foreground tree, a little above the horizontal branch on the left. Looks like it was in the middle of the worst of it.

Thanks for organizing, Sean and to everybody else for coming out! We hiked some old fire breaks, looking for spotty bits of shade and an occasional artifact or critter. The views made this all worth it. Great to finally meet you, David! The 6 of us started at Monte Cristo camp in the morning, and he...

I just can't figure out what the first photo is a view of. What's the direction and camera location?