EISPIRATEN

Wow, those are some incredible shots. I've never seen that screened mailbox looking thing or the dome shaped structure. Is that a fireplace? Are those upstream from the Idlehour campground? The ladybugs are unbelieveable. That canyon is absolutely gorgeous in the winter season. https://eispiraten.co...

I also found this crushed baby rattlesnake in the East Fork parking lot, but I'm assuming there wasn't much left of the skull or the skeleton. I'm always amazed by snake skeletons that are reassembled in nature centers. Must take a lot of patience and know-how to do that. https://eispiraten.com/imag...

Wow, that's incredible that you actually found the external part of the horn. That's really rare. The first bighorn skull I found was still attached to the skeleton and I left it where it was. Still kicking myself for leaving it there, but it would have been a long, long hike out, and those skulls a...

Fantastic find Bill. The mine at the bottom is called the Fenner Tunnel, part of the Bighorn family. It's a two level mine that only operated for about a year and is heavily shored up on the inside with some very dangerous cave ins. Someone dragged a tall ladder inside to get to the second level, al...

I used the more concentrated peroxide on a Bighorn skull. Worked great. But you're right, the 3% works just as good, just takes longer, This is what it looked like before I bleached it. Second one I've found in the East Fork. . https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/min...

Oh, wow. That is a GEM! You mean you didn't cut off the head and take it with you? It's already mostly dessicated, and would be very easy and not-very-gross to clean. And what is that, anyway? A coyote? I'm sure it's still there if I decide to go back before it snows. Didn't have an axe with me at ...

I wanted to boil this guy, but I couldn't find a container that was big enough.

Beautiful cleaning job on the skull. You can superglue those teeth back in if you remember which sockets they fell out of. I saw an entire family of them in the daytime near the first falls in Eaton Canyon, and one near the same place at night. They're all over these mountains, though most will neve...

You didn't find the mine, but it still sounds like a very productive outing. How deep was the mine in the Narrows? Those mines have an interesting history. Originally there were 12 patented claims. Supposedly five tunnels still exist, but two of them are clogged. Stanley was the miner, and Miller w...

Here's a recent photo of a dead one found on the East Fork Road. I've seen these in Eaton Canyon a few times, and in Monrovia Canyon, but it's rare to see them in the daytime. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Hikes/Bridge%20To%20Nowhere/IMG_9596_zpshrdi...

dima wrote: You didn't find the mine, but it still sounds like a very productive outing. How deep was the mine in the Narrows?

That mine was only about six feet deep, on the east wall. I've walked past it a couple of times without seeing it.

Wow, you took that hard way. Impressive.

I tried this one last weekend, but ran out of time before finding the mine. Hats off to you for making it. This one's a bitch. One million ways to die on Iron Mountain https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Mines/Stanley%20Miller/23-IMG_9553_zpsppgefuvd.jpg A...

This isn't related to the San Gabriels, but I thought some of the readers might find it interesting .... These photos were taken on a closed road in Glacier during the winter. "The mountain lion and bighorn were fighting on the mountain and fell to their immediate death sometime during the stru...

Wow, what an incredible compilation. Great job.

Uncle Rico wrote: The "lake" as of yesterday.

Nice shot. Supposedly it's the only naturally occurring lake in the San Gabriel Mountains.

I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question. OK, that makes sense. Where did you get the names of t...

Nice! Terminology question: I thought that "placer" mining referred to filtering river sediments and "hard-rock" mining referred to filtering rock you break off hard ground. But you have photos of several shafts labelled as "placer" mines. So what does "placer&quo...

Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?

That waterfall slide on your YouTube page is awesome. You're buddy looks like Freddy Kruger.

Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?

Those lizards are related to iguanas. They're super fast and get up to about 18 inches. Not rare though.

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CrazyHermit wrote:Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.

It's in the cabin ruins near Stanley-Miller Mine.

Awesome. I'll have to look for that.

Sean wrote: Those are nice, but I believe this nail ball is the most wondrous thing in the East Fork. Kinda hard to find, too.

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Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.

Nice shots of the PL & P.(Pacific Light & Power Trail) That trail was built in 1911. When you walked across the red rock cliff you were just above the Horseshoe Annex Mine. Really? I've looked for that mine before and couldn't find it. Some description I read says that it's on the West side...

girlhiker70 wrote: Wow! Thanks for reminding us of all the wonderful things we've seen and haven't seen. I'm interetested in exploring more mines.

Check out my website for more on the mines
Lost Mines of Los Angeles County

The Bighorns ... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Hikes/Bridge%20To%20Nowhere/IMG_8306_zpsxa5vo7nn.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i411/albums/pp195/minefinder/Hikes/Bridge%20To%20Nowhere/IMG_8305_zpsp4ppkk5l.jpg https://eispirate...

Nice shots of the PL & P.(Pacific Light & Power Trail) That trail was built in 1911.
When you walked across the red rock cliff you were just above the Horseshoe Annex Mine.

http://secretmines.com/

Gopher. Looks like a baby one.
There's also one that looks just like it called a bull snake that grows much larger.

LOL, I love Land of the Lost. But the Will Ferrell version sucks.

The flower is Mentzelia laevicaulis Thanks. How about that unplanned irony: photographing a Blazing Star flower during the solar eclipse? Perhaps I should have focused on the flower as a whole. Blazing Star taken in the East Fork, with a beetle in the middle https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/p...

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Tom Kenney wrote:... the SamSquanches...

Holy shite, Tom! That's hilarious. I guess I'm not getting away from the Internet anytime soon. So much worthless info to google!

https://youtu.be/NL_SL73iNFE

The clip right after that one about the Trailer Park Boys is hilarious.