EISPIRATEN

David R wrote: ↑It means pine trees in Spanish.

In what dictionary?

I was hiking at Elsmere Canyon in Newhall Pass and on the San Gabriels side of the pass is a undercrossing under I-15 called the Los Pinetos undercrossing. It shares a name with a nearby canyon and mountain. I noticed that while of course "Los" is Spanish, "Pinetos" is not in the...

There is a good history of Orchard camp/Half-way house in this issue of Trails Magazine https://trails.lacounty.gov/Files/Docum ... er1937.pdf

solo pine tree

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Yes I can ride my bike up Highway 39 and get passed by 40 cars but apparently sharing West Fork road with the occasional dump truck is a public safety hazard

They posted two new PDFs on the ANF site but the PDFs are text only. The actual maps are only posted to Facebook. They really don't understand computers over there

I tried to go up yesterday (Friday) and they had the road closed, and said they are doing sediment removal and don't want people on the road during the week. Turns out they issued a new closure order today that states the West Fork road is closed to the public during the week through December 2023, ...

I made a new interactive map on CalTopo https://trailangeles.org/posts/detailed ... pril-2022/

I heard from the ANF recreation field supervisor that "From what I’m hearing the areas within the Bobcat Closure will reopen when the closure expires, save for two small areas that will fall under new/extended closures."

If anyone has a spare 1.5 million dollars that house that is blocking access will hopefully be listed again for sale soon... let's cross our fingers that the next owner removes all those fences and signs a legal easement for hikers. Interestingly the Camp Huntington access as well as the upper Pleas...

Snow/rain this weekend, woohoo!

Waterman Mountain is usually referred to as Mt. Waterman, but the original name was Lady Waterman's Peak http://www.hundredpeaks.org/signatures/14a.htm

Legally speaking the definition is simply "an area which has been improved or developed for recreation" https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 319614.pdf . So I have a hard time understanding how they could enforce that language for sites like Kelly Camp which has obviously been impro...

Looks like it already has re-ignited around Twin Peaks... http://www.alertwildfire.org/orangecoca ... &v=81e002f

https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu ... 3349609375

Until they issue a document like this but for the bobcat fire https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 780808.pdf everythings technically open. Might be the only window of opportunity to go into certain areas for a while. Edit they said on twitter they're releasing the map later today. Edi2: they...

> I didn't think Silver Moc got that far West.

Oh yeah oops, I always get Valley Forge and West Fork confused

Silver Moccasin north of Valley Forge?

Screenshot_20200914_140939.png This is pretty remarkable... https://www.youtube.com/embed/SMCbbG9Ub_Y ...shows the fire almost reaching 643 Cloverleaf Dr in Monrovia but the firebreak held it, and after reviewing the nights footage from this camera it looks like the firebreak held. You can see the ...

HikeUp wrote: ↑latest_full.jpg

Looks like they also have timelapses: http://myers.seismo.unr.edu/firecams/vi ... /2020/258/

The google map uses GOES-17 which updates every 10 minutes, but googles derived map updates hourly. It's a geostationary satellite so it can monitor the whole west coast continuously (unlike the other infrared sensors VIIRS, Aqua and Terra on sun synchronous orbits which update once daily for us (ar...

Here you go

These photos show the earliest visible smoke...

http://c1.hpwren.ucsd.edu/archive/wilso ... 419272.jpg
http://c1.hpwren.ucsd.edu/archive/wilso ... 419332.jpg
http://c1.hpwren.ucsd.edu/archive/wilso ... 419392.jpg
http://c1.hpwren.ucsd.edu/archive/wilso ... 419452.jpg

Hahah good point... look at all those pesky trees

Was looking at my old photos of bear canyon. RIP BUDDY

RIP that one weed grow south of Twin Peaks

Ok i'll shoot... 34.236606, -118.103256. Edit: Forgot to mention... Mt Lowe Road

Hmm... PCT Around 34.390007, -118.029437?

@hikeup Bravo! Right on the money

Nope

Yep. Trail is behind and to the left, this clearing is what I believe is an old helipad