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The USFS has issued a closure order for most of the Cabin Fire burn area.

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOC ... 851663.pdf

On my Whitney trips I discovered that increasing the pressure of the air in my lungs helped with the breathing a bit. I would inhale normally, but purse my lips to create a small opening to exhale, and exhale with some force to develop pressure in my lungs. It resembles lamaze. Increasing the pressu...

The wildflower bloom in the Santa Monica Mountains is insane right now. I assume in the San Gabriels as well. Worth getting out to see. Here's a link to some pics I took yesterday in the La Jolla Valley and along the Backbone Trail. http://wildsouthland.blogspot.com/2015/ ... lower.html That's a lo...

SGbob, Thanks for the poison oak tip. I'll try that in the future. It's too late for me now that rashes have appeared. I have a semi-cure for that too. Blowdryer. Sounds weird, but turn the blowdryer on low and get it as close to the rash as you can stand. At first it will feel like the most wonder...

For real? That's some useful ass information. No joke. It doesn't even have to be right away. I've wiped down a couple of hours later and still been OK. I still try to avoid poison oak, so I don't know if it would work if you were real cavalier about it. In theory it should work no matter how much ...

The poison oak is starting to bloom on my wrists and neck now. I am still paying the price, haha. :wink: Just a friendly tip about poison oak: ammonia chemically destroys urushiol, the oil in poison oak that causes the rash. If you keep a little bottle of plain old ammonia and a rag with you, you c...

The Fish Canyon trail, subject of much controversy over public access during the last 30 years or so, reopened with great fanfare last summer only to be closed again by Vulcan in December. Vulcan reported that the December rain had created a landslide and the trail would be closed indefinitely. Some...

Good info about East Fork Santa Anita Bob and walker. If the old trail is obliterated and/or impassable in a good number of places, do you suppose the streambed is a viable alternative, or is that just foolishness? Additionally, do you happen to know whether it is or ever was possible to ascend the...

These are all historic trails that are in various states of disrepair (or basically non-existent now). Has anybody tried to locate and/or hike any of these recently? Last weekend I tried to take Silver Fish (2N28) from highway 39 west, but about 1.5 miles in it became nearly impassable, at least the...

I was hiking the Oak Spring trail on 12/13 when I ran into a woman who reported she was doing guerrilla trail maintenance from Oak Spring to the Yerba Buena fire road. The condition of the trail from the parking lot to Oak Spring was pretty good, but the trail was very poorly constructed and there w...

explore the east fork of Santa Anita Canyon I tried this last summer and didn't make it very far. It's probably common knowledge on this board, but recent topos show the old trail up the East Fork of Santa Anita Canyon starting on the north side and going a good distance before crossing the creek. ...