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Nicely done, I'm curious what the next goal is too!

Traveling through that kind of boulder filled terrain is exhausting but so much fun! Great pictures too.

Haven't found one yet and have been a little discouraged from looking further, though I have seen a food truck nearby that I need to check out. On the plus side there are several Ethiopian restaurants within walking distance! The shelter system seems like a mixed bag. On the one hand it would be nic...

Topographic prominence or die! Tekewin - The leaves weren't as slippery as I expected and 2/3 of the trail was pretty dry, but I'm sure it would be different after a recent rain! Toe smashing is certainly a concern and did mildly happen a couple times, luckily my current pair of shoes have decent to...

Saw a few deer along the way atsnickash10.jpg Second viewpoint along the route atsnickash11.jpg Nice bridge atsnickash12.jpg Weird fungus! atsnickash13.jpg The warning sign came too late, I was already dead atsnickash14.jpg Helpful boardwalk through a soggy area atsnickash15.jpg Example of the white...

This was back on November 7th, but I'm finally getting around to writing it up now. I was anxious to finally get out of town and do some hiking after my move from SoCal, but as a west coast elitist I continue to thumb my nose at the lack of high peaks in this part of the country. When I saw there wa...

Well I suppose there aren't exactly bylaws for the challenge, and supported and unsupported times have always been separated in more formalized bike hiking challenges (FKTs on big thru hikes etc). Then you have to decide if caching your own supplies ahead of time is allowed or not (self supported vs...

As I said at the time, any semi competent ultra runner with some mountain skills would easily beat my time. That said, it's isn't a race so I'm just glad to see a few more people do it so I enjoy some trip reports! Finishing it in one go is a cool accomplishment regardless of time. I almost replied ...

A group finished the route in 22h47m, trip report posted here: San Gabriel death march, sub 24

Great report and one hell of a trip! Why do you think you got two flats when your partner got zero? Gear differences, bad luck, or something else?

Fungi are indeed super weird. In some alternate reality where I became a biologist, I'd probably want to focus on fungi because they are so strange. That one does look a little like a snake at a glace, and then it kind of looks like a pile of baked goods. Your post reminded me to post a few photos I...

Been in the DC area for about two months now and missing SoCal! I haven't had a chance to do any real hiking or get out of town, but have at least been spending a fair bit of time running in nearby Rock Creek Park . I have come up with a groundbreaking scientific theory: West + dry = cactus, East + ...

Nice report! I always wanted to do this from that side before I moved because it looked exciting from PCH. Sounds like it was a little more straightforward than it looks, but glad you got a little class 3 in along the way! Do you think it would be worth going back and trying some of the other ridges...

Tekewin, glad you finally saw this one and enjoyed it I remember being surprised you didn't comment when I first posted it and almost messaged you about it but didn't want to feel like I was fishing for compliments! I considered starting from South Fork, but like the idea of doing the more complete ...

Here is my report from passing through that area, as you can see in the picture the trail near Cabin Flat was very overgrown and difficult to see, especially if you were coming from the Cabin Flat side: cabin-flat-overnight-loop-from-vincent- ... t7728.html Here is a zoomed in view of our GPS track ...

Hopefully! I've got a list of places to check out, but haven't really had time to research and dig into it yet, much less actually get outside.

I just moved a week ago and I already feel your pain! Parts of Oregon are pretty nice though, I lived there for a few years. The gas thing is indeed odd/stupid.

After multiple people I had vague connections to via work flaked out even at $500, I posted it on craigslist and sold it the next day for $750. Score!

I'll miss that car though, it's kind of fun to have a beater!

Thanks everyone for the nice comments and greetings from the east coast! Arrived a couple days ago and still just getting settled, the movers coming with most of our stuff will be here on Monday. I took most of my day hiking and running gear in the car for the cross country drive so I'd have somethi...

You just picked a line, and it ended up working, right? Pretty much! I did see that bit of old trail above Widman, but since it didn't seem to connect to anything and was so low anyway I didn't bother checking it out. I figured a direct line one way or the other would work a lot better. I didn't se...

Glider flying over the ridge and sheep while I was taking a break bighornbaldy11.jpg Starting down West Baldy towards San Antonio Ridge bighornbaldy12.jpg Iron as the sun is going down bighornbaldy13.jpg Time to get the headlamp out bighornbaldy14.jpg Snake friend bighornbaldy15.jpg Detail of my GPS...

The old trail into Coldwater Canyon, thanks for the pruning Dima! bighornbaldy01.jpg The creek above Widman Ranch bighornbaldy02.jpg Typical terrain and vegetation while climbing the slope up to the ridge bighornbaldy03.jpg Nice view of San Antonio Ridge on the way up bighornbaldy04.jpg Looking up B...

I'm moving to the east coast at the end of the week, so this was my final hike here! ? I had to make it a good one! Placing the register at West Mermaid and reaching Triplet Rocks were the other hikes I wanted to get in and did in recent weeks, and something on Baldy was going to be my last one. Bal...

you were probably too tired or focused to get many shots of the final approach. Yeah, this is often one of the tricky parts about documenting a route, on the hard or tricky stuff you are too busy to worry about taking pictures! Plus in some of the steep rocky sections it's hard to get a picture tha...

I agree that going from Smith Mountain would probably be the easiest way. I don't know what the section of Bear Creek is like above where the trail meets the creek (through quads 1 and 36), but I seem to recall others doing at least part of it. Doing it during a low water time of year would probably...

The Man trying to keep us down



GPS track of the section from Twin Peaks Saddle to Triplet Rocks

First view of the Triplets from the ridge to the SE triplets11.jpg Summit register triplets12.jpg We weren't the first to do a version of this route, but I guess second place isn't too bad triplets13.jpg Our entry in the register triplets14.jpg Looking at East Twin from Triplet Rocks, this ridge alm...

Pre-dawn wildlife triplets01.jpg Crappy sunrise pic as we neared Twin Peaks saddle triplets02.jpg Nice bathtub on the way down triplets03.jpg Dima bypassing one of the larger falls along our descent triplets04.jpg Looking up at the ridge early in our climb triplets05.jpg Typical terrain of the lower...

Triplet Rocks! This one has been on my list for some time, so I'm pretty stoked to have made it and also to have done so via a non-standard route. For this trip I teamed up with Dima, who had checked out a different possible route last December. The plan this time was to drop in from the Twin Peaks ...

It does seem a bit tricky to find, when I did the north ridge (report in this thread ) I picked the wrong one and had a pretty rough time getting up to the ridge. That said, if you leave early enough (i.e. a bit before 1:40pm!) you can probably find a workable route with a bit of willpower, even if ...