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Anytime Matt or Dima make a breakthrough in their backcountry coffee techniques means really good news for people like me and wesweswes

Wild!!!!!!

I think I want to get a "Long live John Bradford Camp and Al Borak" tattoo.

Or maybe a bumper sticker for my loppers: "These brush warfare loppers have been gang-stalked by mountain lions at Brown's Flat."

Great idea for an expedition, and your trip report covers it all very well!!! I had an excellent time.

A few bits to add:

• on the uphill gain portions of the Sunset Ridge Road route in, I tried for the first time a new bike-packing strategy of lashing my overnight pack onto the bike seat, and ...

If for some reason you care about google maps fixing their shit, go complain about the upper hwy 39 not being marked as closed.


Oh? Seeing as I already trust big tech with everything in my life these days, I was planning to drive as fast as I could up that road at night. No headlights even ...

The overalls are super key

I've lead expeditions for each of my birthdays in and around Towsley Canyon the last two years on the north side of the Santa Susanna mountains, one of my favorite areas just outside Los Angeles. I would like to extend an invite to anyone up for this sort of partial bushwhack scramble, exploration ...

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...

Awesome as ever. Looks surreal.

I had estimated this week driving to work that the snow line was at about 5200' after this last storm. That seems to about check out with your photos?

The family and I went to Trail Canyon falls on Sunday, (we had never been), and were in T-shirts and shorts!

Oh cool great to see someone else exploring this rad little area! I did the Pico Canyon section with my family a few weeks earlier, giving me a chance to get a visual on the ridge.

Great story. You are your family are good people. Its a little sad and also kind of endearing that Earl felt most at home in his mine.

Matthew wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 7:47 pm I know those silly ideas and I think it would make for a long backpacking trip if we did it

The silly idea I have in mind involves some normies tho ... ~1 mile with 400 feet of gain or whatever it is to hike to the spot would be doable, but not so much if starting from three points!!

I was hoping to get up to the Waterman area at the end of March... this is not giving me much hope the 2 will be open that far :cry:

Right now you can get to Three Points. Close enough?
Rumors passed on by me.


Not close enough for my purposes.... I have some silly ideas for a birthday party ...

I was hoping to get up to the Waterman area at the end of March... this is not giving me much hope the 2 will be open that far

Here's one from Sunday just north of Dayton Canyon. Breezy and beautiful.

Only a rough use trail to this waterfall in the Chatsworth Formation.

Wow, its been rainy down in SoCal. I love some good post-storm erosion exploration; this looks like fun. Could I see ya'lls route on a map by chance? I can't tell if you were just along Shoemaker road the whole time or not.

Thats a nice big day!

The High Sierra is awesome and all, but I always feel intrigued by all the surrounding 'lower' peaks that are still so rugged and oak-adorned like this one.

Paramor wrote: Mon Dec 22, 2025 11:23 pm I've been hanging out on the forum for a while to check the condition reports (thanks for the info on the state of the trails after the recent rains), so I've finally decided to open an account.

Paramor sounds like you are in the right place! Looking forward to reading your trip reports.

N8K

Matthew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:03 pm Where's the other trip report? That one's badass! In my research, i couldn't find many other visits to the flat. I recently spoke with this guy who has been there 3 times in the early 2000s but he's never written about it.

I think he's talking about this one right here, my man!

After focusing on work and family hikes, I'm planting a few seeds for some pirate and solo adventures this winter. My penchant for backyard exploring inevitably leads to lower-elevation routes, and the winter is when I more consistently get after it in SoCal.

So this past weekend I wanted to ...

For various reason we've gotten back into doing consistent family hikes each weekend this fall, and it has been a delight. Now at 5 years old, our Pirate preschooler Forest is a full-on schooler and has been more enthusiastic about hiking then he was last year. Recent adventures have included a ...

Wise words, Mathew! Sometimes the small trips can be the special ones.

Publicly available information that informed the closure:
https://inciweb-prod-media-bucket.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2025-02/Eaton%20Post-Fire%20BAER%20Assessment%20Summary%20Report_PUBLIC%20FINAL.pdf?VersionId=lIVdWQxm2BrFdVjKNbCQ2bHRFyM93Zdm

I think the closure is a pretty ...

Looks like the trail is now fantastic! Best way to access Alder Crag!!

organizers would not share previous search routes and became very guarded with information. This was a huge disservice to Monica as volunteers were searching the same areas over and over again rather than being able to help strategize where best to search. The organizers seemed more interested in ...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew anything about how strict the weekday “closure” of the West Fork San Gabriel River bike path is.


Back in April a friend and friend of that friend who is a friend hiked the road from 39 to bear creek during the week, passed a couple cars, people swimming in ...

Admirable effort. I think you were about a mile from the Bridge Fire burn zone. If I were you, I'd stay within that...

Those be some serious gainz!

Would coming down on the tram be an option?

Elwood wrote: Sun Sep 21, 2025 8:43 am Strangely close to where Monica went missing.

The X-Files theme just went off in my head...