EISPIRATEN

Third Stream Crossing tele7465lytle21.jpg Nice trees along the way tele7465lytle22.jpg Flowers here and there tele7465lytle23.jpg Nice line of green along the creek, almost back at trailhead tele7465lytle24.jpg Trash found and packed out tele7465lytle25.jpg Detail of route to 7465 tele7465lytle26.jp...

Summit register placed in 1966! tele7465lytle11.jpg View of the ridge to Telegraph from 7465 tele7465lytle12.jpg Looking down into Grizzly Gulch tele7465lytle13.jpg Pleasant and easy ridge terrain between 7465 and 8540 tele7465lytle14.jpg Point 8325 looking towards the North Backbone between Dawson ...

Middle Fork Lytle Creek trailhead tele7465lytle01.jpg Starting up the drainage past Stonehouse tele7465lytle02.jpg Cool white cliffs tele7465lytle03.jpg Series of small falls on the west edge of the cliffs tele7465lytle04.jpg Carefully traversing west to a small saddle tele7465lytle05.jpg Time for t...

A couple weeks ago Uncle Rico asked if anyone had been to point 7465 east of Telegraph Peak and above Middle Fork Lytle Creek. Several people had been to nearby peaks or points along the ridge, but not that specific spot. It sounded like a fun trip over a rarely visited point and I had never started...

Yeah, I have no idea where the class 1 route could possibly be from where we turned back on the west side of the peak, that saddle and climb to the summit was very steep and loose from where we turned around! I still plan on finally doing Wilson at some point on a weekday to avoid the crowds, and no...

Thanks to Sean, Cecelia, and Jeff for a nice outing today! Bonus thanks to Sean for the beer and stickers, finally home and able to drink it! Also I now have a vendetta against Cosmic Cafe for their crap service. ? When I met up with my friends later in the afternoon they had randomly picked up and ...

About to head out the door and maybe it's too late, but just remembered something.

Sean, Dima told me you had a new run of EisPiraten stickers or cards or something. If you can bring me some I'll spread them around a bit.

Made it to 7465 and Telegraph from Middle Fork Lytle Creek, then down via Icehouse Saddle and Middle Fork Trail today. Might take a day or two to get a trip report up, but here is a teaser. There was a summit register there placed by Sierra Club in 1966! Only a few entries and the last one was 1993!...

I'd like a headcount too, I was planning on bringing some morning treats!

I'll be in the busted-ass green Subaru and have a blue pack.

As for beer, warm weather calls for something on the lighter end of the spectrum, beyond that I'm not going to be picky!

Jefferson Davis agrees.

I didn't take many pictures of that area since we were only in it for a very short time. This is looking down from the ridge we descended towards the little horseshoe bend a bit upstream from the main falls, this bend can be seen in the 7.5 USGS maps: fishfalls1.jpg This is looking down at the water...

I forgot the most import part of the trip report!

Approaching final scramble to Strawbery strawlawlor08.jpg Strawberry summit register has seen better days strawlawlor09.jpg Looking towards Lawlor on the way down the east ridge of Strawberry strawlawlor10.jpg Some yucca are starting to send up stalks, this was along the use trail to the Lawlor summ...

Colby Canyon trailhead strawlawlor01.jpg Josephine Saddle looking east towards Strawberry Peak strawlawlor02.jpg Josephine Saddle looking southeast strawlawlor03.jpg Josephine Saddle looking north strawlawlor04.jpg Looking west towards Josephine Peak in the distance from the saddle strawlawlor05.jpg...

Yesterday I was looking for a shorter day trip to test out some new trail runners and a new running pack, and because I had evening plans that weren't compatible with a 10-12 hour day. Strawberry Peak has been on my list for a while and is well known for the scrambling approach on the west ridge. Th...

Sounds like a plan to me, now we just need more people to sign up!

Do you think with a bit of rope you could manage the 10' slot? Was there a good anchor nearby? I swear I didn't this many pictures of the whole trip, just this section! This picture is from a smaller drop right before that spot, the boulder directly behind the trees divides the falls to the left an...

Impressive time for getting up to Cucamonga this way.

Not wanting your car to get towed is great motivation, I recommend it!

The 15' falls that stopped me at 4600' in the canyon cucacan07.jpg Looking down into the canyon just past the 15' falls, can't see much and too steep and loose to try and descend cucacan08.jpg Nice summit view towards Baldy after my detour to Cucamonga Peak cucacan09.jpg GPS track showing the sectio...

Looking back at the Cucamonga saddle as I start descending the canyon cucacan01.jpg Terrain gets rockier as you go further down, this is looking back at a nice view of the slope below Bighorn cucacan02.jpg First water emergence a little further along cucacan03.jpg I just liked this tree... cucacan04...

After doing and researching other trips in the area over the last couple weeks, Cucamonga Canyon caught my eye on the map. The south end has been closed for the last year , but I didn't find a renewal order, so supposedly the closure ended the day I was going to be up there (4/12). I didn't want to ...

Very helpful pics, thanks! The scramble north from there definitely looks tough. I see a line that might be doable, but I wouldn't be too surprised if once you get there it's too slippery with loose soil and fine gravel in key steep sections. I certainly wouldn't want to go back down that way from h...

I looked at 7465 from Cucamonga on Thursday (was exploring Cucamonga Canyon from above and got turned back, so made a quick trip to the summit while I was close, still need to put together a report) and wondered about it. Following the ridge from Telegraph out and back certainly looks like the simpl...

I've seen that before, thanks for the reminder. My plan is to take the canyon down as far as possible until I hit something I'd need gear for, then figure it out from there. That report doesn't mention bypasses, but I suppose he wouldn't be looking for them if he doesn't need them anyway. Plus, I'm ...

I'm actually planning on checking out Cucamonga Canyon on Thursday, never been there before. Apparently the closure of the lower section ends that day and I haven't found anything about it being extended, but I'm not sure about the parking situation so I'm thinking of just starting from Icehouse and...

some party campers had forgotten to dispose of their many beer bottles,

Some people are so forgetful! ?

Looks like a fun adventure, how close do you guys think you got to the plane wrecks?

Nice photos, I've been there a number of times and there is a ton of great stuff to see and do even if you don't do any big hikes. I was luckily able to get out there to see the super bloom and it was fantastic! It'll probably be a while before we have another one...

Starting up Deer Canyon as the sun rises cucaoff01.jpg Steep climb up a chute on the west wall of Deer Canyon cucaoff02.jpg Looking down from the chute towards Deer Canyon cucaoff03.jpg Nearly on the ridge with some bushwhacking between me and Cucamonga Peak cucaoff04.jpg Final section of the ridge ...

After doing Sugarloaf and Ontario from Falling Rock Canyon over the weekend I got curious about other non-standard routes up Ontario and Cucamonga, so I started looking at the map for ideas. Some potential routes for Ontario caught my eye, but since I was just there I focused on Cucamonga. Taking De...

Good point! I would certainly recommend doing the loop in the direction I did for that reason and because descending all that loose rocky stuff isn't much fun.