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Proposed Expedition: The San Gabriel Mountains geographical centroid. A little more than 3 weeks ago, minds delirious and euphoric after indulging in wildly grotesque and delicious variations of JeffH’s smorgasborg of trail-grilled-cheese magnificence, I forget who asked the question, may have been ...

The bears have lighter-colored, almost brown fur. Not really black. Is that common for black bears in the San Gabes?

It looks like you punched it in the side of the face...

I wonder who first added it to OSM? It wasn't me. Ranger Nick?!

Thats kind of incredible Neight Thousand is on OSM now!!!!!!! ?
Hiking with you guys is too much fun!

I see you found treepeople ridge quite different....thanks to them and their saplings planted <1 inch apart, you get a wonderful world of fakery. Oh, did Tree People actually plant those young conifers along the higher portions of the Neight Thousand ridge? Or are you just making a joke? I've actua...

...The San Gabriel Mountains newest, trendiest highpoint sensation, Neight Thousand. Now available in a variety of flavors, including Peakbagger , for those who appreciate the evolving definition of "peakness." Brilliant. I like your TR on Peak Bagger, and am looking forward to seeing hun...

dima wrote: ↑I have this on my wall:

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That is TOTALLY epic, Dima! Bravo. Mad respect. ?

13.7 miles, 4,304ft of gain

I navigated 2.5 hours of brutal traffic from Culver City to join Sean and Cecelia at their campsite in Crystal Lake, in the process traveling deeper and higher into the thrashed and tortured granites of the San Gabriel Mt range than I ever had before, driving my little SUV into a remote bowl encircl...

That is excellent! It took me years to get up to Wilson and Baldy since I was working on finishing everything else closer. I wasn't quite as thorough with the mapping as you, but the rationale was similar I think. Haven't been up to Whitney yet, and I'm not almost there :) Oh cool, so you have a si...

FYI, where my Earth hiking radius will one day converge on itself and I'll need to book the moon ticket: Screen Shot 2023-02-11 at 5.14.16 PM.png Wasn't planning on doing under the ocean seamounts, but at the same time not ruling them out either. Madagascar will be my finale for the on-land stuff. C...

The ongoing “Radius” project Warning: unapologetic hiking nerd-dom contained within! ? A (somewhat) autobiography of my hiking history. I have mentioned this “radius” hiking to a couple of the posters on the board before while out in the mountains, but figured I would lay out more details here in a ...

Hardcore walk. Much respect. Trudging down the east fork in the dark with that many miles/elevation gain/time behind you already is the real deal.

Good work Anthony! Sounds like those falls put up a pretty decent fight for you. That is a serious neighborhood for exploration... I don't think you can get much deeper into the San Gabes then that. Yucca can leave painful red swelling, particularly for some people, but by the looks of your foot it ...

The huge slide on Lawlor that was repaired recently has re-slid and consumed the road again. It is unclear if the road and debris wall have left the site, or if they are simply buried. To complicate, the lush spring that caused all the trouble is clearly visible as a huge wet spot on the slope abov...

If you guys do an archeological brush-clearing expedition to locate ruins and want an extra pair of loppers, let me know, that would be fun.

Looking forward to hopefully traversing this area in a couple weeks or so! Terrain looks inviting.

I have been commenting a bit around here, so I suppose I should introduce myself! I’m a music nerd and musician and have been in bands since I was a teen in the ‘90s. Despite growing up not too far away in the SFV, I’d never spent any time in the San Gabriels until I moved to the area five years ag...

When you share a passion for something, particularly one rare and specific like hacking through punishing brush up the side of some steep unknown ridge to get yourself on top of an unnamed bump of rock for some obscure reason, you can sort of understand the other person very quickly. Because you don...

You've just shown your age, also wear light colors they absorb less heat think Raiders of the Lost Ark You've just shown your age. Wear light colors, think GLADIATOR. (This PSA has been brought to you from one of the forum's resident Millennials) I was actually planning on saying Dune but knew I wo...

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HikeUp wrote: ↑Think Sir Lawrence of Arabia!

You've just shown your age, also wear light colors they absorb less heat think Raiders of the Lost Ark

You've just shown your age. Wear light colors, think GLADIATOR.

(This PSA has been brought to you from one of the forum's resident Millennials)

Damn, looks like that trail's in the closure zone? It didn't occur to me that the closures were in part due to unstable ground. I always assumed it had to do with not disturbing the vegetation. Yeah, have we determined if Colin was actually within the closure zone when the incident occurred? If not...

The satellite imagery really illustrates how decimated that landscape was by the Bobcat fire. And after a big rainy winter there are plentiful dangers in an area as steep as that. Fire might expose alluring old trails, but beware everyone...

You were in my neck of the woods! Yes, that area is going to be *hot* this time of the year. And not a lot of shade either. Not recommended for a summer hike particularly with the temps we've had recently. I haven't quite bagged Mendenhall myself yet but I hope to do so this winter. I'll probably do...

Looks like excellent terrain for having a topo map and a target! ?

As Colin stated, he was going to "attempt to find signs of the trail at the upper end where it joins Clamshell Road west of Monrovia Peak." There appears to be an old unmarked trailhead to the west of Monrovia Peak. It also appears to go somewhat SE down the mountain, running parallel and...

I keep thinking about the last time we hiked with him to Rose Peak and how we ate ice cream afterwards to celebrate. The memories of that day have taken on a new poignancy. I remember standing with Colin on Rose Peak, probably the best view of the Arroyo Secco there is, and in my excited state, poi...

Thanks for the trip report, Sean. This has been a long, dark week of searching for Colin and I hoped it was therapeutic in some sense to get out there and look where you could, even if its a long shot. The SAR effort has been amazing... 66 people will be out there today, dogs, horseback, helicopters...

Its maybe a long shot but just going on information that is available to us, Colin was writing about those other mystery "dry lakes" throughout the San Gabriels that he knew of. • Devil's Canyon at the toe of the ridge to West Twin • Graveyard Canyon at the start of what eventually leads u...