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hvydrt wrote: ↑

simonov wrote: ↑before the glacier travel clinic on 29 January.

Where is this at?

Mt Baldy. More details later.

The swine at Classic Camp Stoves don't allow hotlinking. You can see the photos, Jim, because they are in your browser cache. When you click on the links, you get a nasty "We know what you're doing!" message from Classic Camp Stoves. And, dude, Stove of the Week? That's fifty stoves a year!

I have one other question about Whitney. They have a Wagbag that you have to take your human waste out of the area in. Is this just for Whitney Trail specific or any of the sourounding areas. Leaving at Horseshoe Meadows / Cottenwood Lakes do we need to pack a wagbag? I don't know where the wagbag ...

Here are some knots folks should practice before the glacier travel clinic on 29 January.

http://www.mesatactical.com/index.php?s ... load&id=61

Is no one else having any problems?

I could not read the forum until I added the following lines to my HOSTS file:
Now not only does the forum work again, but I don't see any ads!

Good point. What's your take on the antibot plates falling off for no reason. Defective or no? What about the main side seam coming apart on the pack after light use? Defective or no? The anti-bot plates falling off is a manufacturer's defect, not REI's. It all depends on REI's relationship with th...

As a small manufacturer, I would never return anything that wasn't in some way defective. Don't think this service of REI's is somehow "free." Biggest purchase I made there that was clearly unsuitable was a big Gregory pack that must have cost a few hundred smackers. Nothing wrong with the...

Question: will it be better to use microspikes at first probably up to the ski hut you think? And then crampons? Or is there enough snow to pretty much just stick with crampons? The microspikes might be useful on the bare parts of the San Antonio Falls Road (always covered with black ice in the mor...

We've had this discussion.

https://eispiraten.com/s ... 0.php#8400

You know where your bread is buttered when ads are loaded before content. If the ad server is unavailable, no content for you!

You are right about the clothing! The new REI Tustin store looks more like The GAP than an outdoors oriented store. The store is beautiful, but it's mostly clothing now...and it's non - technical "I wanna look like I go outside" clothes. When REI first arrived in the area, in a big wareho...

Not YouTube, and not by me, but a friend sent me this link to a really quite extraordinary video of a recent Baldy climb (by Timo, whom some of you might know from the Peakbaggers MeetUp group): http://tmpix.smugmug.com/gallery/152985 ... DmFn2-A-LB The camera work and editing are amateurish, but th...

I actually like Sports Chalet, but perhaps mainly out of pity. I just don't understand how they survive. Anytime I go there (or Sports Authority or Big 5) there is never a line at the register. Sure, every once in a while someone buys a pack of ping pong balls, but I'm thinking they're making like ...

obie wrote: ↑Thanks for the great pics.

I'd like to be on the snow someday on the Ski Hut Trail too. It would be cool if you keep posting what you learn and see on your way up...it's all very helpful.

https://eispiraten.com/viewtopic.php?t=3276

Looks like our boys.

Nice photos, mcphersonm80. Just a word of warning: the Flickr Terms of Service require that you include a link back to the Flick photo page when hotlinking directly to an image file hosted by Flickr. This is easy to do using the "Grab the HTML/BBCode" menu item on the "Share This"...

I was more thinking of meeting at the Ski Hut. It might be better than waiting around in the parking lot for people to show up, especially latecomers.

I'm thinking of getting up there early and making . . . PANCAKES!

We were high on the Bear Canyon trail when they opened the road. We could see the line of cars starting up the Wanker Flat road. What a mess! Was that on Sunday? This morning, Monday 12/27 the Forest Service was turning people around at the fire station. Since the repaired road is just gravel, I su...

Yeah, because people are uninterested in facts. LISBON, Portugal – These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community — mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street. Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a "dru...

Dave G wrote: ↑Just heard that the road is open all the way up.

We were high on the Bear Canyon trail when they opened the road. We could see the line of cars starting up the Wanker Flat road. What a mess!

Ingrid and I went up Bear Canyon yesterday. I'll put a few photos up tomorrow. We learned we really need to get earlier starts (she has difficulty with that) and also I am hopelessly out of shape and need to do some training before our snow travel clinic on 8 January. We had never been up the Bear C...

We're heading up. Supposed to be rain in the village in the morning, snow a bit higher. Never been up this trail before.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others...

Latest news from a buddy in Wrightwood is that the rain which has been washing out roads up three has just turned to snow.

Looks like some San Gorgonio snow climbing is in our future.

No pics, but this afternoon I drove over a bridge that crossed the Santa Ana River about a mile from its mouth. Holee shit, that's a lot of water.

Since we will be getting even more rain tonight, I'll try to remember to bring a camera over there tomorrow.

Nice.

"Alleged victim?" WTF?

norma r wrote: ↑ sooo Cute!

They really are such gentle, beautiful and friendly creatures.

Cora this weekend:



She's beautiful!