EISPIRATEN

Nothing much to say about yesterday's hike up to Bighorn Peak via Icehouse Saddle, it was nothing special. However, I would like to point out, especially for those who don't think there is any solitude or wilderness left in Southern California, than on a nice Saturday morning in July I didn't run in...

As of yesterday, 10 July, there is basically no water coming out of the spring at Kelly's Camp:



I will be leading a group of backpackers up there in two weeks and we will be filling up at Columbine Spring below the saddle.

Visited the top of Bighorn Peak yesterday. Left some stickers in the register box:

As of yesterday, 10 July, there is basically no water coming out of the spring at Kelly's Camp:



I will be leading a group of backpackers up there in two weeks and we will be filling up at Columbine Spring below the saddle.

Great TR! Our scout troop will be heading up there in three weeks and will be camping at Fish Creek Saddle. It looks like Lodgepole Springs will be our closest water source? Lodgepole is the closest, a half mile away. It's kind of a bitch, because hauling all that water back up the draw is hard wor...

Wow, nice detailed trip report. That's my favorite approach to San Gorgonio; I only wish there was water at Fish Creek Saddle. Carrying water back up the draw from Lodgepole after a day of backpacking is never pleasant (I normally start at Aspen Grove trailhead to avoid the bone-jarring five miles o...

PackerGreg wrote:Morale is one of the major problems on The Angeles, and has been since she "slept" her way into office.

Dude, slept her way into office?



That's just crazy talk.

Accountability is so last century.

You guys gotta get in with the times and quit whining about accountability.

So am I the last guy left whose monitor is 1024x768? I can't read the forum because of that big-ass ham panorama pic at the top.

From last weekend's OCHC overnight just below the summit of Mt Baldy (not by me, by Elena):



Full size here.

When I was on Langley last year, I thought about going up and doing Cirque this year. It never occurred to me to do both in one day!

Just got some crash damage fixed. Stickers were the first thing to go back on:

I noticed the business about it being invasive in the Wikipedia article, but you only see them on the highway shoulders, never above and never below.

Apparently, seed pods burst in the autumn. I will try to remember to gather some seeds then.

Along the trail to John's Meadow in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. Very small:



What in the world are these? Seen along the Mishe Mokwa Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains in May:

I have noticed this year a profusion of bushes with yellow flowers along the Baldy Road as well as along Hwy 38 between the turnoff to Forest Falls and and Angelus Oaks. The flowers smell great, a sweet fragrance a little like cookies baking. They are distributed right along the highway rights of wa...

The public has used the trail continuously for more than a century, creating a "prescriptive" right to continued access, he said. A Ventura attorney who stepped forward to help Keep Access agrees. William Slaughter said he argued a similar case in Ojai a few years ago and won the public's...

Thanks for the report, especially about the spring. I was worried about that.

Kelly's Camp is one of my favorite places in the San Gabes. I haven't anything scheduled there for a while. Maybe I'll have to do a quicky overnight during the Independence Day weekend.

Okay, so maybe we should get back to answering the request in Ze's original post. Off the top of my head, quantitative information to capture: o Destination (name of a peak, etc) o Route (eg: via would be the title for the entry; loops and shuttles would have to be handled a little differently, mayb...

I meant, when's the migration from myfreeforum.org to eispiraten.com taking place? Do you guys need any help? There are no plans that I know of. The eispiraten.com domain is there just in case. Any migration to a different forum on a new site (which I think would be awesome) would first require the...

mve wrote:I think Zé's page is driven by Google Docs.

A database backed/driven site is the way to go for sure for this.

So what's the holdup with eispiraten.com?

No holdup: http://www.eispiraten.com

These are all just pages in blogs, right? What would be really cool is if this was all backed by a database, so that quantitative information (length of hike, elevation gain, difficulty rating, etc) can be captured in fields and you could build custom, sortable tables of hikes. Like what this guy ha...

Seems to me, that this prominence needs a look-see with a register in hand. hmm?... :idea: I was concerned I might be making a mistake when trying to identify it, but I'm pretty sure now I am not. I used Google Earth to duplicate the view and work out the elevation. In this Acme Map , the photo was...

While you guys were kicking your own asses this weekend on seldom-visited ridges, I escorted a group of 14 teens and five adults to the Bridge to Nowhere. Holy cow, was there a lot of people. I assumed there was some kind of special function going on, but no, it's just a popular trail in the summer ...

I think it's important to make a distinction between responsibility and blame. I agree. In fact, I'm a little sick of the modern tendency to find someone to blame, for everything. But what is irritating about the current case are the continuous prevarications and lies and ass-covering that has char...

I understand the reaction because mine is quite similar. Except that I don't recall a golden time when everyone was accountable. Oh, I remember a time as recently as 20 years ago when savings & loans were taken over by the government when they threatened to implode the economy, and their shareh...

I can think of someone who would be very interested.

If I ever make it out to Japan (unlikely), I will hook up with this dude: http://i-cjw.com/

Doesn't matter. There will be no accountability. No one is accountable for anything anymore. It's the Brave New America.

EManBevHills wrote:How did they get through security and customs?

UK friend.

I didn't notice any ticks. Seems they're not out in force yet. However, there were a ton of light brown biting flies, about 1/2in long. A friend of mine just brought home three of these after spending a weekend in a park in the UK: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm5.static.flickr.com/4022...

You are my hero!