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Very, very nice Norma, thanks for sharing that

My wife and I will be up in Big Bear for the weekend and want to do a few good hikes. Scenic, water, minor snow. We do Baldy, Ice house, Wilson and such on a regular basis, to give you an idea of our skill/ability level. Any help would be appreciated. Directions to trail head, photo pages of hike, ...

TracieB wrote: ↑Simonov I got the stickers, thank you very much. What does Shnee! mean?

I hope to compensate you for them by the way, I mean, this has to be costing you something, right?

Thanks again Mitch, I got my package of them yesterday.

@ Tracie - Shnee - is German for snow I think?

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑"Athenians?" I had no idea that ancient Greeks were scheduled to be atop Baldy. (or did you mean Aetherians?)

HJ

When I type fast anything comes out, Geeks, Greeks, Athenians, Aetherians it's all spanish to me

Taco - Was that Tinaballina or whatever with the HAPE patrol? It's hard to recognize people with all the helmets and glasses, especially when you've only seen them on trip reports. She was coughing up a lung for sure. She was not in that area, she was on Olancha over the weekend, that was another f...

I've been up all weekend in the Crystal Lake area area hiking around. Back home now. Y'all seemed to have survived the rapture thingy pretty well. We were camped out eating Mountain House Sweet and Sour Pork, or whatever it was, waiting for the tsunami or earthquake. And then nothing. Maybe I had t...

Very nice TR and Pictures AB, looks like the snow will be there for some time. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm6.static.flickr.com/5098/5470529306_4562868648.jpg No matter how you dress up a "pig" it's still a pig and this one is butt ugly - she makes "Maddona" almost ...

Nice work, we now have a famous "rapper" on the board - "Taco Del Rio Rapper"
Looks like so much fun

Stickers - I'll take some more Mitch been handing them out like candy, do you still have my address from last time?

PackerGreg wrote: ↑ In fact, when the Methodist Church bought Sturtevant's Camp in 1954, they found a still in the basement room under the dining hall.

I'm shocked they only found one, great place to produce alcohol is in the mountains away from everyone.

Bike D Eisenhower

BDE, sounds like a stalker on a bicycle following the west fork - the ride down in white out conditions and no brakes, now that sounds like fun.

Nice TR Logan and Marty, Great pictures, I'm learning more everyday about the San Gabriels through other trip reports, please keep them coming

Very nice, very nice, I'm assuming you parked at Windy Gap or back at Red Box?

Nice steed Norma, looks like everyone is pulling bikes out of the garage and riding.

When? Are you hiking into the lakes each day or camping at them? The Horseshoe Meadow Campground is a great place to camp and you can venture into the different lakes and no permit is required, where as it is if you camp at the lakes, the trial to the lakes is fairly easy. If you go in the next coup...

Great job Dave, Norris and Burchey, glad Burchey got to meet some of the gang. Conditions and pictures look great.

It's the second week of May Who would have guessed snow. From the NOAA website Overnight: Scattered snow showers. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 27. North wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total nighttime snow accumula...

Really great shots and report HJ I like the shot of the summits reflecting in Dry Lake and the comment, I agree there's so many nice ascents here that get overlooked. Curious though, you shot leading up over Lake Peak to Ten Thousand Foot Ridge shows nothing but patchy snow and dry dirt near the top...

Nice to see you have a new four legged hiking partner Mitch, hope to see you both on the trail together

Nice work Johnny and Brain

First time I showed up at Humper Park and looked up to see rock climbers doing that - I got dizzy just watching and it scared the living $hit out of me and I said I'll never do that crazy stuff. Now I'm thinking how I can learn to at least try

Great Picts

GigaMike - "The code of silence" has been broken

Great pictures Mike, isn't that two weeks in a row on the 6 peaks - nice work - glad to see you throwing up TR. Hope to see you out there soon.

Ok all you techie's out there, I read the information below on another website and while I understand some of the dynamics behind it, but I sure would like to get a complete education on how all this works. First here's the link to the website http://www.whitneyzone.com/wz/ubbthread ... _#Post7073 T...

Taco wrote: ↑Patrick, do you still have a bike and whatever else you need to ride?

I have a couple of bikes, Jeff S keeps wanting me to go up Black Star Canyon with him - cause he knows I'll suck at it and it will be my turn to watch him from the back as he goes up

Slow down Cowboy, we have a hard enough time keeping up with you in the snow now, you keep this up (Lance A Jr.) and we will need a Helo to chase you down

Nice work Taco, I used to ride so much back in the day, I miss it actually.

Norma and Dave, great to see you two back out, very, very nice TR and great pictures - still some good "white" to be had. Dave what did the "Incline-O-Meter" say the angle on that slope was near the top - looked to be very steep - niceeeeeeeee :D And how soft was the snow on the ...

Nice TR Hiking Jim, the pictures tell the other half of the story.

I might just go there on Friday

Thanks for posting.

Nice work Logan, I agree with Burchey those tree shots are great.

Everytime I walk through an area of forest that has been hit hard by fire it gives me the feeling of being in a movie, like a bad hollywood set

Interesting that you would say that seeing that Baldy gets summited a couple hundred times a week and Telegraph not nearly as much. Why do you say it is safer? Less crowds maybe? If I had to guess he means less "rockfall" on Telegraph versus badly bowl - the bowl get's much more and more ...

Yeti sent me a message on Friday saying he hadn't been on a mountain in over a month. So I joined him for a run up the Ski Hut trail. Windy was the word for the day. Was looking for Rick and Mike but missed them. First view of how much the bowl has melted out. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/...

The "Part Vampire" strikes again

Looks like polarbear time up there.

Great job Mark

TracieB wrote: ↑ chit happens!

Off road happens and you love every minute of it - nice fun you are having