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I believe it would take an Act of Congress to allow wheeled vehicles into Wilderness Areas like Cucamonga Wilderness, Sheep Mountain Wilderness and San Gorgonio Wilderness.

It would take an act of god to make, say, the Vivian Creek Trail accessible to wheeled vehicles.

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑This is what one round from a .22 does to the average car.


I saw it in a movie, so I know it must be true.

HJ

Aye, wet manzanita is a rare treat. Only people who hike in the rain get to experience it.

Gotta be in winter. Dry Lake is a delicate meadow the rest of the year.

I like the pic of your pack (Aether 85), it's interesting to see how others rig their shit, to put it eloquently. I've got an Aether 75 from the old school, and I find that thing to be way too big for alpine stuff (1-3 nights). My 52 liter (below) seems to handle everything I need, and that include...

Hard core.

Attempted twice, defeated twice.

Must try it again someday.

Really nice pix. I'm surprised that the snow is in such good shape. I've seen a lot of crappy snow pix lately 'cause of all the hot wx we've been having lately. Yeah, we were a little surprised, considering how crappy Baldy has been looking lately, and also what the snowlines look like from lower e...

Most of this text is transcribed right off my Flickr account . Preparing for a winter ascent of Mt Whitney this year, Ingrid and I decided to take a crack at 11,500 foot Mt San Gorgonio in a winter overnight. My first winter backpacking trip since I was a Boy Scout was a hike up the South Fork Trail...

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑How was Dry Lake?

Fun! I need to process the photos from this last weekend, maybe tonight.

Photos, better late than never, including pics of Fritz' snowboard run down the Bowl.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 681541187/

I love my Monkey Man jacket: http://www.mountainhardwear.com/Monkey- ... lt,pd.html Everyone has a different metabolism, but over the weekend I wore my Monkey Man with a shell while winter camping on snow and never had to break out the down jacket (I used the latter as a pillow; heavy pillow, too). ...

If your ice axe shaft isn't ash or teak, you should be wearing a paper bag over your head while climbing.

Thanks, Zach. We were considering snowshoes because you guys said you used them around Poopout. REI is having a winter sale on Friday and we might pick some up. Yeah, I'd love to camp up there below Big Draw, which even in the summer is in my opinion the most scenic part of the San Gorgonio Wilderne...

Wow, that's a lot of hiking and climbing on one day. It's called Icehouse Canyon because it was the site, in the 19th century, of an ice factory/warehouse (back when refrigeration meant delivering ice that had been stored since the winter). There is usually a register on Ontario Peak. As I recall, l...

Dudes, Ingrid are going up for an overnight on Saturday. We were hoping we wouldn't need snowshoes. Is that not the case? Also, about routes: we intend to stay at Dry Lake. I notice during the winter most folks go straight up Christmas Tree Hill from South Fork Meadow. Is that a good route to Dry La...

I believe Kurt Wedberg is involved in some way with Big City Mountaineers.

Well, in my case the cartridge and white gas stoves will be similar configurations and sizes. My white gas stove is an MSR WhisperLite Internationals. http://www.gearculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/msr-whisperlite-international-stove.jpg My cartridge stove is an MSR Windpro. http://www.liteka...

Doing some snow camping this weekend and I was wondering something. I have a white gas stove I never use because it is pain in the ass to work with and in any case is a poor choice for cooking because it only has two settings: off and thermonuclear. So it remains mothballed and I normally carry a ca...

This confusion will not stand, man.

Jim, all you need, as I recall, are ice axe, crampons, alpine harness and one locking caribiner.

Re: 29 January glacier travel practice

Dudes,

I'm not going to be able to make this. Came back from Vegas with a cold I am trying to shake.

Sorry.

This old hiker thinks it's really pretty amazing how people can now carry video cameras up there and post the videos on the interwebs.

Seeing videos like that should make it irresistible for hikers and climbers to want to climb Baldy in the winter.

Oh yeah, mix 'em up!

Let's dance!

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑

simonov wrote: ↑Been away for a week at a trade show.

Shot show. Oooh. Aaah. Any cool stuff? Photos?

No, I was working the whole time. All I saw of the show were the booths between mine and the crappers.

It is ever so.

I left a shitload of stickers in the Baldy register during the snow clinic day. Have we got any fresh meat out of that?

Been away for a week at a trade show.

When I was at Cisco Systems, every new project had a code name. This was not so much to thwart industrial espionage as it was because a project needed a name before it had a product name. The actual product name assignment might be the last aspect of the project, so you had to call it something . Fo...

spotfin wrote: ↑Got a late start and signed the trail register at 9.30 a.m.

Did you pick up some stickers?

Isn't this posted in the wrong forum? Maybe Taco should move this to "Stove Reports."