EISPIRATEN

Your daughter is adorable. Looks like she had a lot of fun.

Awesome photos of the bear tracks. I love how the silt in that area captures good quality prints from everything that walks through.

Wow, nice shot. I've seen a few of those in Tin Mine Canyon near Corona. Beautiful snakes.

Red touches black, safe for Jack. Red touches yellow, kills a fellow.
Beautiful mountain king snake. Haven't seen one of those for awhile.

I stepped on one about three years ago in Eaton Canyon at night. He bit me on the boot, but fortunately his fangs didn't go through the leather. They're way more scared of you than you are of them. Most of the time they won't even rattle because it gives their location away.

Because of the heavy rain this winter, the rodent population is heavy and there are supposed to be a record number of rattlesnakes. If anyone is worried about getting bit in the brush, snake leggings are relatively cheap and will make you bulletproof from the knee down.

I'm crazy but not that crazy. GoPro makes a stick called the El Grande that allows you to keep your distance while you shoot. Those photos are actually clips I took from video. Because he was trapped in a bush his striking range was only about one and a half feet.

Last Sunday I was re-shooting the interior of Big Horn Mine with my new GoPro. On the way back to the parking lot I was surprised to see this dusty black Southern Pacific rattler slithering across the road (in the middle of the day). He crawled into a bush, which made shooting him a challenge, so I ...

Beautiful. Looks like a striped garter. Nice shot

That's a nice one. It seems like the older they get the darker the shade. Some people call them Black Diamond Rattlers

Classic "Messin' With Sasquatch Ads" ....

Steve Austin had problems with Bigfoot too, but eventually they became buddies ...

Even duct tape can't help MacGyver this time ...

LOL, LGBQC C is for Cavewoman/man/thing

Follows Camp looks even creepier. And Sedley Peck, who owned it after Ralph Follows was killed in an auto accident on New Years Eve shot himself in the head, no suicide note was left. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Abandoned/Follows%20Camp/5_zpsvdo36d...

I saw that first one crawl up an old man's hand in The Blob. The one at the bottom is called Turkey Tail Fungus. Beautiful shots

I'm looking to get a boot/crampon combo that will allow me to do a bowl ascent of Baldy. I've gotten a lot of different advice for what is actually necessary. Is something like the Lowa Renegade GTX enough? It has some flex, but the 12 point steel crampons I'm looking at (Grivel G12) would have a f...

https://pics.me.me/me-waiting-for-something-to-happen-on-the-curse-of-19325954.png I love the part where they go into the "WAR ROOM" and drink beer while they discuss spending billions of Marty's dollars to find "more wood". The whole show could be boiled down to one season. I'v...

Wow, incredible find. Reminds me of the crosses on Oak Island.

Great shots Sean. Best time to look for mushrooms is right after a rainstorm. Mold On Mushroom Cap, Upper Eaton Canyon https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Mines/Esme%20Canyon/56-IMG_1311_zpsufvlpj0k.jpg Unidentified Mushroom Near Kelsey Mine https://eispir...

Another great website for plane wrecks is Joe Idoni's site.

https://joeidoni.smugmug.com/Aircraft-Crash-Sites

What a great find. Especially the gunsight piece with the ID still attached. Huge thumbs up on this one.

Thanks for the info. I will definitely be buying one soon. Left a message about bald eagles on your website. There are two of them nesting in San Gabriel Canyon.

How much does one of those color units run? If you don't mind me asking.
And how did you decide where to place the camera? I'm amazed you captured so many animals with a single camera.

Those are awesome clips. What part of the Santa Ana's were these filmed at? Did this all come from the same camera?

I nicknamed that one the Inspiration mine. It only goes in about 8 feet.

Notice the name of the Vice President on this train ticket.

Great report. That's one of the nicest hikes in the San Gabriels. There used to be a tiny railroad that ran from Inspiration Point to Panorama Point called the OM&M Railway (One Man & Mule). Herbert the Mule used to pull the open air train, but they fed him leftover garbage from the Alpine T...

Which one is bigfoot?

That's an old photo. From before she ate all those kids.