EISPIRATEN

You're correct, the previous mine you were working on is the McNally tunnel. I can't believe Bryant was able to fit through that hole, he's got brass balls. https://www.youtube.com/embed/tS7kH1949gE Dr. Hiram Reid gave an account in his History of Pasadena book of what I believe to be another mine o...

Or a malfunctioning Lincoln robot.

Not to be confused with the Bridge To Nowhere, the road is in the same neck of the woods, high above the western flank of the East Fork. Also known as the Tunnels to Nowhere, this dirt road was built during the Cold War days with the U.S.S.R. when he U.S. government decided that Los Angeles needed a...

Looks like you got close to Owen Brown's grave marker. It was stolen, or rather rolled down a hill by an a'hole who lives in the La Vina area, same guy who's responsible for shutting down the mouth of Millard Canyon for ten years. I've tried to get to it from the residential side, but he's set up mo...

Welcome and welcome back! I'm glad the compressor is still there despite not being nailed down. TFitz: did you make a loop with the trail down to the creek and the gully up to the mine? Any water at all in the gully? I've been to this one three times. The first time I trespassed through the Cal Tra...

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CrazyHermit posted this story last year... death-dive-in-glacier-t7566.html Story from May 22, 2009. https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gall ... death-dive . I'm calling bullshit. What's bullshit about it? I posted the same story twice, stating that it happened back in 2013 and gave credit to Outdo...

Man, those photos are beautiful. Did you get a new camera? Too bad you couldn't get to the summit.

Wow, did you take the photos? Those are not actually my photos. The incident happened at Glacier National Park back in 2013 and became viral on the internet. Supposedly both animals were found on a closed road. The photos were featured in Outdoor Life, but I have not been able to find the photograp...

Oh my God, those photos are beautiful. That one is definitely on my bucket list.

WilliamCross wrote: Newbie here. I'm glad to have found this great online San Gabriel mountains community. I'm hoping to learn more from the other members here. Cheers!

Welcome to the jungle.

Sean wrote: How recent are those pictures, Kurt?

I took those less than a month ago. There's still a surprising amount of it left, and someone has made a campsite out of the wreckage.

Those ones look even colder.

That looks mega cold. Those last two photos are awesome.

That wedged boulder looks incredible. I've never been up that canyon before, but it looks sweet.
Thanks for posting those photos.

This is a bizarre incident found on an icy road in Glacier back in 2013. It appears that a mountain lion was locked in an epic battle of survival high above. Both animals fell to their deaths (gruesome photos, but that's nature) https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/i.imgur.com/CMi7F2r.jpg Both an...

You could be right about the bus. Some sites report that it crashed in the 1970s, when the driver of the school bus lost control and went over a cliff in the canyon, killing most of the children. However these are not newspaper sites, so the validity of the claim is still up in the air. Here's what ...

Really nice pictures. Thanks for posting. I never made it into Black Star. I always heard that some locals never accepted that the forest service had an easement for public access. That's true. There was one guy in particular who used to wave a gun around and actually shot at a few hikers (or so th...

Gorgeous area, named after Tibercio Vazquez, a Mexican outlaw who was said to be the inspiration for Zorro.
Vasquez Rocks

You need the magnifier to examine the scat.
And don't forget the Bacon Bandages to attract the Bigfeet.

Very interesting Crazy Hermit. Thanks for the post. One of these days I'm gonna have to get down to the OC to do some exploring. It's a very cool mountain range, and surprisingly large. 65 miles of protected open space that ranges all the was from Orange to Riverside County. And only about 45 minut...

Black Star Canyon is located in the Santa Ana Mountain range, about 10 miles east of Angel Stadium in the Cleveland National Forest. It's a limestone canyon, long rumored to be haunted, with a bloody history to fortify the claim. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/...

Inside the lower tunnel. This mine has three levels and multiple smaller mines outside the upper level. The wooden structure on the left is an ore chute, the catch gate is detached and laying on the ground. Sweet! Where are the other entrances? I've been to this mine a few times, but never went loo...

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mattmaxon wrote: ↑Mountain Beaver?

Joking aside, any ideas about that? What could cause it?

I used to see this all the time in Monrovia Canyon.
The bears sharpen their claws on telephone poles and eventually they fall over.

GREAT REPORT as always. That third photo down is indeed a stove. I found a similar one near Big Horn Mine's miner's camp, that flat area before you reach the mine ... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Mines/Big%20Horn/10a%20-%20IMG_4679_zpszqmqebhs.jpg

The guy (Tom Mahood) is beyond hardcore. Look at the Search/Rescue section of his website. He found the Missing Germans of Death Valley and made 68 trips to Joshua Tree looking for missing hiker Bill Ewasko. Check out his 1973 hike to Allison Mine. He was hardcore even as a kid. https://www.youtube...

Found on the way up to Stanley-Miller Mine.

Made a good walking stick until I lost it over the side of a cliff.

Here's a little background on that plane wreck. Yes, it was a glider or sail plane. It crashed on 2/6/74. The flight came out of Llano, California. The plane is a Schweizer SGS 2-32 N7622. James Webb and his passenger Harry Diltiz were soaring in high winds near Mt. Baden Powell and flew into a viol...

Those old stone cabin ruins belonged to a guy named Oliver Justice who moved up into the canyon when Azusa became a dry town (no liquor). This was long before Prohibition, but the town had so many murders they decided to outlaw booze. He used to be the Postmaster General for the city. After he moved...

According to the California Dept. of Fish and Game there is no provision in the Fish and Game Code prohibiting someone from picking up a set of antlers attached to a skull and carcass found on public land. So I'm assuming that makes it legal. One federal land such as inside a national park it's prob...