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Very Nice report Calicokat, pictures are always great as well.

How far from the car did you guys travel, round trip wise, summit wise, was it snow shoes the whole time?

That looks to be a great place to do some winter climbing in a mild winter Great job all around

Burchey, there's more than enough snow on the northside trails or chutes to find some decent snow, it's the south side that is in bad shape. BadenPowell has snow on the north side, San Gorgonio does as well, depends how far you want to go, how much you are looking for and how willing you are to trav...

Very, very nice, there maybe a new hobby in my future, going downhill on very hot days in the spring through cool water sounds more fun than fighting the uphill battle of places like Iron mountain in that hot weather :shock: Thanks Cougarmagic for sharing that - does give me shivers when I think abo...

rokclimbr - Great TR, nice pictures, way to knock out three peaks in one day. Simonov is correct., the upper end of the canyon used to get more running water and major frozen chunks of ice were carted down to the parking lot area, carved up and delivered on trucks to the urban areas. I've never seen...

Thanks so much dude! That sounds great! I will try to get out of school but I think I can because climbing is part of my senior project so I can get out of school as part of my project. That is so not fair. :lol: HJ Had I tried that they would have laughed in my face (the highest spot in Michigan i...

Great shots and TR Elwood (and his not so evil friend Jake), backside of Baldy is looking nice

Nice work JJpicts and company, very nice photos, those sunset shots were fantastic, we saw that same color on the drive home - was explaining to the other guys that with a tripod and slow shutter speed on the camera you can make that kind of sunset look surreal. Quick question, did you go up the big...

Good for him for giving such a big challenge a try, he's from the U P and that's some cold country so he's not new to being outdoors during some seriously cold times, I hope he makes it

I'll be checking on this from time to time, thanks Bike&Hike for sharing this

I fell a couple times on the bionic leg but in the sand - can't get my brain to change pattern and fall to the right. Most cyclists fall to the left...it's hard to change. Ride was 7 hrs. and around 60 miles. I wonder why that is, I'm thinking back to all the times I've bailed on my bike and 99% of...

Walked the dog and girlfriend up to Eaton Canyon Falls. It was crowded, I don't think I ever was out of view of another hiker. Lots of dogs, lots of tourists, only saw two pieces of graffiti. Tromping though the water felt great! I ran into Dominik and CougarMagic rappelling down the falls. They lo...

Another fun climb in the San Bernardino Mountains. Jeff Scofield (Yeti) called me on Thursday to ask if I wanted to do a couloir leading up the east face of the north ridge of Jepson Peak in the big draw or big bowl, call it what you want. Since Zach and I had already made plans to do Dobbs, Jepson ...

Nice work everyone great pictures, Iron's a tough mountain, that hike kicks you in the butt.

Thanks for sharing the report

This one should make you hungry

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Saw it after driving down from GMR. Looked up off of Sierra Madre Rd and BAM! A plane.

How many times I gotta tell you to quick target practicing on real planes

Now eat your spinach and go to bed

What's really going on in that picture is everyone is looking for the summit plaque to prove to Sam that we actually made the summit - he's still looking for proof, Miguel is looking at Norma with that look like "Why are you taking pictures? Instead of helping me find the marker :shock: :D ever...

LD That's one hell of a way to earn the summit of Ontario :shock: , nice work, sorry you could not find the mine, maybe davantalus has the coordinates? Thanks for the great trip report and pictures I'm also amazed that you went down FRC without crampons, we did a week ago (with crampons) and it was ...

Sierrabird, thanks for sharing the pictures of your route on BadenPowell - looks like you got hit by the same winds and storm we did - nice work

Very nice write up Sam - sorry you have to deal with someone trying to "piggyback" your/our outing, that's always a wierd thing :shock: The climb felt like two different outings, one in the lower canyon and one in the upper canyon :shock: the weather sure can change fast when storms are mo...

Just glad you are back Rick :D - hope it's feeling better today. Hopefully you can keep making progress with it to the point that it doesn't bother you on any hike that is within reason. You guys got all the good weather up there yesterday - today it was "Whiteout Conditions" with winds we...

Very Nice Norma, time to get to south fork soon, the snow around here is disappearing fast.

Ninja Jim, is he carrying a double pack, one in front and one in back? Or just camera equipment out front?

Joseph you will be missed by many, always had great outings.

Looks like this was another fatastic day in the front range, thanks for sharing the TR and pictures, hope you make it back soon.

Nice work Burchey and (I'm not smiling), thanks for the great TR and pictures.

With you traveling in these areas all of us get a first hand knowledge of the rebirth of each area, would be nice to continue to see a "yearly snapshot". Thanks for posting a great TR and pictures - Jake

Second time up this route was just as classic as the first, thanks Sam for suggesting this and setting it up. Do not know what happened to the other cast aways but we found Gilligan's Hat :D https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i908/albums/ac287/CharlieMacbob/Ollestad%20Canyon%20-1-22-...

Great pictures and TR Hvydrt - for this outing we may need to change that to Hvysnw or Hvywnd :shock: :D Glad to see that there's still some snow to be played in up there. How was traffic coming back on the 38? And did anyone capture any pictures of the north side of Galena and the little San Bernar...

Funyan005 - snow was consolidated in upper canyon all the way to summit as Sam indicated, lower canyon was snow free, see pictures with area indicators below Lower part of FRC approx 5,500 feet lookinig down canyon https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i908/albums/ac287/CharlieMacbob/Al...

When things go bad you only have a nano-second to change the course of your future. Funny you should say that my dogs said the same thing right before my wife took them to the VET to get fixed :wink: :lol: All kidding aside those two glissaders were lucky that everyone yelled loud enough to be hear...

Nice to see Koopa Troopa swimming on all that melting snow

Very nice work Tim :D :D How consolidated was the snow on the north face? How far over the saddle did you go down before you headed up? Looks like from your map you traversed straight into the chute then up? Only wish Lytle Creek road was open to the gate, be nice to do that route from the base of t...

Jim if you find that to be true when you contact him, let everyone know I have 10 of those cylinders