EISPIRATEN

Bummer.

I graduated from high school in 1980.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain..

Therefore, Chambers said, "Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit."

Gotta admit, he has a point there.

The main thing I want to mention is don't underestimate how hard downhill hiking is. When you climb big mountains, you are building up enormous amounts of gravitational potential energy. All this energy has to be dissipated when you go down. It's dissipated through your joints and muscles as you tr...

Another vote for helmets when canyoneering.

Weather looks good, I think I will drive up to Lone Pine this week to secure a day of entry permit and walk up the beast. I need to get away from work anyway.

Alan - Those two girls sure seemed real to me, but what I saw was so out of place (and at the same time very interesting) it wouldn't surprise me if I was hallucinating. But they were in good spirits and seemed perfectly capable of making it up there, with the weather that day being so cooperative....

And then there are some vintage slides that should never have been scanned:

Come out to the SCTA this month and hang out.

I'll look around for some old photos and see what I can come up with. My father has lots of vintage slides from Baldy. I'll see if he has any of them climbing on piton rock. Recently I sent a few hundred 35mm slides to a service bureau in Utah that scanned them for me. Once they were digitized, I u...

How about someone marking the location with Acme Maps?

If Patrick of all people hasn't seen the wreck, I have to assume it's not that easy to find.

Hikin_Jim wrote:Thank God A16 has survived. They're a pretty good mountain shop. I guess they've survived by being good, 'cause they're definitely not the big guys.

A16 was originally a wholesaler, supplying mountain shops, so that might have something to do with their survival.

TacoDelRio wrote:
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What's up with all those game trails in the pic? Are there cattle or sheep or something up there?

FIGHT ON wrote: white out conditions?

Yup!

. . . is like YouTube for grown-ups.

I just got an account. Once I work out this groups and channels stuff, I'm probably going to set up a channel (or a group) for SoCal climbing and mountaineering.

Here is my account, and an old video I uploaded:

Gear shops were put out of business not long after you were born by A16, Sport Chalet and REI. In the days of the mountain shops (before REI came to California) you had to drive around to a lot of different shops before you could find what you wanted, because each shop carried only one line for each...

Basically, I'm just yakin', because personally although I am a rule follower, I would not want it to get to the point where there was a FS ranger at every trailhead checking permits.(that would ruin the experience) Actually, when I was a volunteer (around 1989-92), there was a ranger on every trail...

Bill wrote:Unfortunately in reality they are only keeping track of the responsible ones!

The permit system is not about keeping track, it's about limiting numbers. And with proper enforcement, the irresponsible ones are sent back down the mountain.

but they were also checking permits. Seems like they're stepping up patrols over there. They also mentioned that they would do more patrols this winter. I am surprised at how many people hike w/o permits. What are these people thinking? fascinating! Once on SummitPost when I mentioned I used to be ...

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Saturday Night: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Sunday: A slight chance of snow. Partly cloudy, with a high near 58. Edit: this was the ad under my post just now: Bedwetting Message Board Discov...

Something tells me Tim isn't exactly an amateur at this sort of thing.

Edit: Yes, Fight On, I am a tall guy. But so is Fritz.

Damn, Tim, that was really great!

That is a link to your entire Flickr photostream.

A better link would be to the set for the trip, in case you add more photos of other trips to your photostream later:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30922174@N ... 553906142/

I have a complaint about those photos: not enough dog pics.

No hiking involved, I'm just going to hang out. Here is trip description I posted at the OCHBC. Anyone want to join me? The Southern California Timing Association has been holding monthly meets out on Mojave Desert dry lakes since the 1930s. The El Mirage meets feature hundreds of vehicles running a...

Sounds like a great trip.

Flickr makes it easy to share photos on this site.

If you put your dog on a leash, as is required in Wilderness Area regulations, you won't have to worry about her chasing bighorns off cliffs or squirrels into cactus.

Fight On is pretty quiet this morning.

Tim wrote:When he got to the saddle maybe he realized he was lost, panicked and went down Cucamonga Canyon towards the city below.

From the article: "The Ontario resident was hiking in the vicinity of Ice House Saddle . . ."

He was just trying to walk home.

I may be imbibing some of the rotten stuff Thursday night at the Goat Hill Tavern.

I just thought I'd mention that.

Rumpled wrote:Wow, don't see many of those anymore. That was the hopped up Honda of its' day.

Better, the 510 was rear wheel drive.

That wasn't my car, just a photo I found on the net. The only photo I have of my 510 is this, from 1981: