EISPIRATEN

Just talked to the Waterman guy. He is convinced lift 1 will be spinning soon. I hope so! I’ve never gotten to ride the lifts there. That would be really sick.

this should be an easy one:

Mount Burnham

They never even spun last season before the storm took out the road. So why would anyone believe that they will spin after being damaged?

He actually goes up and gets in his bulldozer to work on repairs to Lift #1. They'll be ready for skiing this winter for sure he says.


Sorry but there is ZERO chance they are operating that chair this winter. I have seen it recently and the entire frame for the terminal is bent. The road ...

lytle creek might have water.

baldy stoddard falls might be good.

I found my notes. The good news is that the globalimagery tiles are still accessible and usable. The bad news is that those actually look worse than the NAIP tiles. Do either of you recall what the "good" imagery was? If it was google's tiles, then those are probably gone (likely too expensive and ...

What's up with this?!

Can ya'll share some other mapping options?

When you zoom in on the new CalTopo imagery it is pixelated.

I ended my paid account with them.

https://blog.caltopo.com/2026/04/22/new-imagery/

the coast from SF to Santa Cruz is really nice.

One way to do this that doesn’t fit option 4 but makes a lot of sense is to take the train to the Bay Area or just north of it and ride south. If I take my road bike and do big miles I can do that in 2-3 days, but at a fun pace that could be a week and a half or so. It’s ballpark 500mi so if you ...

dima wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 11:23 pm I grabbed HikeUp's first image. mikeywally: I'll use yours next time if you send a bigger image. I scale them down to 2000 pixels horizontally. Thanks!

copy that! will send 2000 plus next time. i got some other shots im excited to submit too.

great pics, great write up.

congrats on the memories made.

https://thesentinel.network/p/the-green ... d?r=71h4we

super long write up about the monica reza situation that references Eispiraten quite a bit.

Matthew wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 9:05 am My dad sent this to me. Makes the whole lore go a level deeper with fun.

whats fun about this?

That is gnarly washout.

Could you determine where the current western closure point of the 2 is? Is it still Three Points? It must have been dark or nearly so when you were there...


it's closed at "the 6,000 foot gate" and it will remain like that for the foreseeable future. "it was the gate ...

What’s with the term ‘lived experience’? Is there an unlived experience?

Sounds like adding more words to something to sound smart.


this is really funny to me. what is the difference between an experience and a lived experience?

i googled it. it's a translation of the german word, erlebnis ...

i also wonder how indians got from barley flats to chilao area. im assuming folks walked east to around shortcut saddle.

Shortcut Saddle to Chalton Flats to Silver Moccasin trail.
Thats for that, because it leads to someone who has a noteworthy past, which ive joined the fray and looking into ...

from https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/angeles/newsroom/releases/angeles-national-forest-seeks-public-input-san-antonio-canyon-mount :

The public is invited to learn more about this process and provide feedback during a virtual meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 5-7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Join via ...

this MIGHT be from "history of pasadena." i don't know where this is from but i had it copy pasted somewhere so i thought i would share it:

"Years ago, before the Angeles Crest Highway was a
reality, Shortcut Canyon felt the trod of many boots and
hooves. Its busy trail, built in 1893 by Louie ...

abigailw wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 2:21 am I mostly trail run these days but have been itching to get into bike-packing.

https://caltopo.com/m/0S8M2UN <- some of my favorite running loops

Thank you K_Sabo!

Considering my crew did all of the work on the trail and we had to study the entire area to be allowed to do the work


how does this process work? I am interested in working on old trails myself but want to do it in a legal way. who exactly did you get permission from? the united states forest ...

the yosemite grade system was invented at tahquitz (first published by chuck wilts 1956). so the original 5.0-5.9 are at tahquitz. tahquitz was the benchmark for all the other places to be graded from.

yosemite grades are very similar to tahquitz, as are josh (maybe a little softer). there might be ...

you can add lines to leaflet to show a gps route. (i might be wrong about how but i think you export your line in to a json and then you copy and paste that json code into your leaflet code. but i don't know how any of that works with the Datasette tool, sorry).
and you cannot add a hyperlink to a ...

Assuming she has perished, I fear a mountain lion got her...


from what i have read and remember, mountain lions do not typically eat the entire kill. they will eat, and come back and eat some more. and they usually won't consumer the entire kill. Also, SAR was out there really fast. There was ...

https://caltopo.com/m/RM995A9

made a caltopo to better visualize your story

(it's got a little bit cut off the beggining and end)

We can probably park here with the old pass?

nice! we gotta find some longer lines for rope pitches


these are at winston peak, you can see the formation from the road. dont take the trail from cloudburst.

IMG_3944 3.jpg

we (me and hugo) tr solo'd these three lines. still havent lead. (possible grades L-R) 5.11+/5.12-, 5.10-, and 5.10 ...

Matthew wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 6:15 pm
Imma claim the FA on the remote shit until some pissed off climber owns it.

why are you trying to piss people off?