EISPIRATEN

A 2008 attempt:

simonov wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 2:59 pm Weirdly, I've never been to the top of Tamarack. That's something else I'd like to check off the list this year.

Check!

Taco wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 6:02 pmIf you have any points of interest you think I should check out, holler at me.

If I had known about this I would have suggested the Z Bar patio in Midtown Reno, a half mile from my house.

I have not made a winter ascent of any mountain since I moved to Reno almost a decade ago. The snow conditions are very different from what I was used to in SoCal and I had some trouble adjusting.

We have a mountain nearby called Mt Rose which is very similar in size to Mt San Jacinto, and the ...

That's a pretty bougie spring. Puts the spring at Kelly's Camp to shame.

Just caught this report about floods and mudslides in Forest falls, Oak Glen, Jenks Lake, etc, my old stomping grounds.

What gives? I don't remember anything like this happening in the last 40 years. Have there been fires? The last big fire I am aware of is the Lake Fire in 2016 or so,

Sean wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 1:36 pm Have you tried Ibuprofen to prevent mountain sickness?

No, because aside from appetite loss, I almost never have any symptoms.

Based on my previous experience I am pretty sure my illness on Saturday had more to do with not eating enough. In any case, it only rarely happens.

Well, I did it. Barely.

There is more than just distance going on here. As you can see from the profile above you basically have to climb the mountains twice, since you lose so much elevation coming down off Mt Houghton. That’s the killer.

Years ago my climbing buddy Fritz used to say how climbing ...

Bikes of any kind are not allowed in the Wilderness Area. Also most of the trail outside the Wilderness Area is off-limits to bikes. The newest trail in the area, the Tamarack Lake Trail, was actually built by a local mountain bike club.

I don't know the rules about ebikes. I suspect they are ...

Weirdly, I've never been to the top of Tamarack. That's something else I'd like to check off the list this year.

As I mentioned last month, Mt Rose. At 10,785 feet, is the tallest and most prominent mountain at the north end of Lake Tahoe. It’s a walk-up, an 11 mile reverse lollipop that, because of the starting and ending elevation and the distance, is similar in many ways to Mt San Jacinto via the Tramway ...

Nate U wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 10:19 am At the far western end of Josephine Peak's ridge. Broken off at the base, resurrected and used as a temporary flag pole.

That flag is lit.

The Sasquatch Tavern & Grill in Verdi NV, about a 12 mile bike ride from Reno.



I used to ride out there for breakfast in weekends.

The Carson Range is the bit of the Sierra Nevada east of Lake Tahoe. The tallest mountain at the northern end of Lake Tahoe is 10,785 foot Mt Rose . It is visible from everywhere along the shore of Lake Tahoe, from I-80 and US-395, and especially from Reno, where it dominates the mountain-scape ...

As some of you know every month for about five years Ingrid and I escorted teenagers up into the local mountains, until I moved to Reno nine years ago. We still try to coax n00bs up into the mountains.

We met a trio of college age girls at the Z Bar in Midtown Reno a few weeks ago, and after much ...

Bella passed away the last week of February, about a month shy of her 14th birthday.



It feels like a tragedy, but she lived as long as dogs live and we had her the entire time. I have nothing to complain about.

Hey there, since I moved to Reno in 2016, I noticed both the San Gorgonio Wilderness and most of the Angeles National Forest have been re-designated National Monuments or National Recreation Areas or some other designation moving administration from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of ...

I still haven't installed a motor on my bike, but I keep on riding to work. Yesterday it was 19 degrees here when I rode to work. Frosty!

It's dark in the morning at this time of year, which is okay with me because my bike is lit up like a Christmas tree and in any case there isn't a lot of traffic ...

Holy crap, he has risen! How you likin' Nevada? I rode through Reno a year ago. Not bad for a city. The state outside the cities is great, so quiet.

I love it here, I really do. Wish I came here 20 years ago. I chose Reno because it's right up next to the mountains, but as it turned out I spend ...

Those were meant to be bumper stickers, sort of an Eispiraten version of the Grateful Dead teddy bear stickers. We never made any. I don' think there was a lot of enthusiasm for the idea.

In 2018-2020 I lived up in the hills east of here, and for some reason I decided I wanted to begin commuting to work on my bike.

I bought a Giant Sedona in 2004 and used it intermittently since then. But then in 2018 or so it was reborn as my daily commuter, for the 15 mile roundtrip to work. My ...

dima wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:20 pm I gave a lot of them out, and a few of us have a big pile. But honestly, there's WAY too much big ass ham. Those are a tough sell

It was Taco's idea!

I'm actually very impressed you got as much over as you did.

Bella turned 13 years old last week.

She's very slow these days, but she still enthusiastically chases the tennis ball every day. Apparently her eyesight is going as she barks at people she sees outside the office because, I believe, she doesn't recognize them. She very rarely barked at anything ...

A couple years ago I sent Dima the rest of my stickers. Have they been distributed?

Oh man, so glad to see the site on a new dedicated platform.

Were the old threads preserved?

Edit: Whoops, looks like they were.

Thank you, Ellen.

I noticed it's easy to change my screen name (why?) but can't find a way to edit my avatar.

Hey there, I was trying to share Ellen's story with some online friends and the above links no longer work. Does anyone know where else her account might be found? Or is she still active here?