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I have the gate combo to the lock.

Beautiful! On my bucket list too!

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It certainly was quite the adventure!
Thank you Sean for planning my special birthday hike. I loved the rock scrambling.

Thank you Jeff for driving out there and freezing your butt just to surprise me and share my special day.

Works for me

@uncle Rico- these are the days I'm free 11/26, 11/27, 12/4, 12/10, 12/11, 12/12, 12/14

The permit is good till December 14th

I'm actually free on 11/22 & 11/24 but that's my bday weekend I was looking to do a different hike but if it doesn't work out then that's an option too.

I've been helping one of my Wednesday crazies accompliish the Sierra Club HPS list. Last Wednesday we scheduled Mt Lewis. Since the road was closed to Dawson Saddle we decided to walk up the road. I was also curious about the progression of the construction. We started around 8am. There was only one...

Carl- we did drive to Spring Camp. I can't recall if there was water. I did see someone camping off the road. We didn't hike very far down that road.

That area looks nice with snow

So after reading Tekewins report on the Rincon road I got my permits to drive the Rincon road from Glendora Ranger station (by the way is very nice) Anyways, they gave me 3 codes to the gate so I have access until December 14th. As Tekewin said the road is nice. Some areas are smoother than others b...

Lars,
Emailed me said we had a nice group and was happy we could visit him.

@Matt- Lars wants to send you pics of the maps you inquired about. I can forward you his email in a private message but it's on his business card.

I just don't want to advertise it

Whoohoo I went yesterday.
Report report coming soon.

I had received a personal invitation for a tour of the Monte Cristo Mine from Lars the current owner. Last Saturday me, Ed, Jeff, Dima & Matt met Lars at the locked gate by the Monte Cristo campground. We followed him in two cars. I've walked this road many times but driving on it was quite a di...

I think it was roughly 4 miles of road. You would have liked it.

My friend and I will meet you guys at the gate.
See ya tomorrow!

That is correct. Fell free to invite someone if you want as long as they are nice and will respect the mine.

I'll meet everyone at the gate.

Last Wednesday, my friend picked me up at around 530 am and we headed our to Ojai. We had intended to start hiking at 730 am but we had made several stops along the way to get breakfast and other necessities. We finally arrived at Rose Valley campground just before 9am When we arrived it was a chill...

Thank you! I got my permit but forgot to ask about clamshell Anyways, they were so nice. My permit is good for 6 weeks. I got 3 combos for the gate for every two weeks they change it. I can go more than once if I wanted to maybe some peeps from the group will want to go with me. Thanks again! I'm ex...

So how many miles total including Rankin?

I'm also interested in Clamshell never been there so you have a route so that I can do all three?

Thanks

Thanks

Whoooohoooo!!! I'm so excited. We are on for 10 am. Meet by the gate. I have 4 ppl going so far. My friend has a jeep and says he can take 5 of us. The road isn't too bad at least where we walked to Rabbit so I'm sure if you have a truck you will make it. I'm hoping more mine enthusiasts can go. See...

Thank you so much for this info. I'm helping a friend complete all the hps peaks and we were wondering about Monrovia.

This info on getting the gate key is so helpful!!

Nice trip report

Ok I'll text you.

The owner of the Mine near the Monte Cristo area has offered to give us a tour November 9th. If you are interested in going let me know so I can send him the list. He will open the gate and we can drive up instead of walking to the mine area I had posted this in Hidden Springs but someone blocked my...

JeffH wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:03 pm Odd that no one noticed a car parked at Chantry for more than two weeks.

Jeff you and I hiked on October 11th to Chantry the day he was there

Sean wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:18 pm Falling Sign Junction is on the Gabrielino in Big Santa Anita. It doesn't look like you were on Winter Creek. If you had hiked Winter Creek you would have ended up at Hoegees, not Sturtevant.

Whatever. We hiked. There is a lower and upper winter Creek trail. You weren't there so just let it be

Thanks for the report. Do you mean you took the Gabrielino-Upper Falls loop? Winter Creek doesn't connect with Upper Falls. I'm curious how far they've restored the Gabrielino. We took the Upper Falls trail that connects to the Lower Winter Creek trail. We did not continue on the Upper Winter Creek...

Nate- the fire didn't affect much of the area where we started from the lower parking lot. One cabin did burn which was close to the trailhead and the cool bridge that was once there. The majority of cabins were saved. The cabins at Sturtevant camp were burned but they are currently rebuilding. As w...

The sign said Upper Falls trail. I'll post a picture of it later.

There's a split to continue going up or go on the trail we did above the falls.