EISPIRATEN

Toilets at Hoegees and Roberts Camp are open for now. According to a volunteer I saw, they've been opened and closed a few times. But open for now.

Hoegees was a fricken mess. I packed out a trash compactor bag stuffed full of trash, and If I had more room, I'm sure I could have doubled my pleasure.

So I was up at Hoegees Friday night/Saturday. There is already quite a bit of toilet paper around, some of it quite close to the creek. Saw some volunteers at Roberts Camp on Saturday and told them about the mess. They said that the FS is fighting the closures, that the info about Hoegees was helpfu...

My name is Rob, and I'm an old fart (59). Started backpacking in Scouts in the 70s, as a Scout leader took boys out in the 80s. Hoegees, Oakwilde, Gabrielino trail; we went all over the place. Life got in the way until a few years ago when me and my wife started backpacking again. We love getting ou...

RichardK wrote: ↑I like to leave the back country just a little bit better than I found it.

Me too. And sometimes that includes a little educating of offenders.

I had the same thoughts. I carried out a sackful of trash collected from a fire pit, bringing attention to the fact that instructions are not really being attended to... :? Hate to say that I also had questions about the veracity of the EPA statement (one wonders how the cabin outhouses wouldn't be...

So the EPA thinks it's better to have human waste all over the place instead of two localized areas?

Thanks for the heads up, or should I say, head's down!

That odd structure is a mountainbike jump.

Thanks for the writeup.

Thinking of taking an end of the year trip up Santa Anita canyon and was wondering what the water situation was at Hoegees and Spruce Grove.

Thanks!

Went up to Little Jimmy Friday night. Posted on the bulletin board "No Campfires". Bummer, was looking forward to a nice fire. Oh well, early bedtime! Went up to Mt Islip Saturday. Beautiful day up there, but there was some marine layer, so the views were less than spectacular. The big new...

My brother is a civil engineer for caltrans. I'll have to ask him about it.

Sean wrote: ↑"The couple had possibly faced a $5,000 fine from the U.S. Forest Service for being in an area that was off-limits to hikers - though the agency said a citation was not issued."

Breakin the law, breakin the law!

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How are you going to get people to stop if you don't enforce?

A friend of mine had a bear siting early September. He was on a Boy Scout outing with his son. I don't remember where they camped but they left out of Chantry Flats. The one they saw was not very big according to his fuzzy nighttime picture and behaved pretty harmlessly. Boy Scout outing. Chantry F...