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HJ - Thank You! lilbitmo - You were up and down the trail before we got back. We started at 4:45AM, reached the glacier at 3:00PM, and returned to the car at midnight. Now, I know that there are hikers on this board who could do the hike twice in that time period and want more. But, as a 61 year ol...

Richard, Norma, Eman and I were there that day as well, don't know how we missed you, we only went as far as the Second Lake because it was our fourth day of hiking/climbing in a row and we started at 11:30ish and exited by 5:05 PM, about the time I would guess you came down from the glacier? We ran...

Thanks Patrick. Our time was much slower than you would be, I'm sure. First we went slower because of coming up through the wash instead of staying on the ridge from Mill Creek. Then, one of our party was a little slower as well. My GPS measured a total time of 11-1/2hrs including lunch and breaks,...

Nice work Victor, great shots, flowers are nice and bright.

What's the time frame for the whole hike?

I'd like to do that hike when the weather's a little cooler.

That's the TACO entering the Sauce

Nice work Victor, that's one hell of a good day, 5 peaks and a little scree slide to cap off the nice day. Video's look great too and so do all the pictures. That slug up the first ridgeline coming away from the Baldy Notch headed up the Devils Backbone can be a "ball buster" after tagging...

I missed the memo or I'd be posting a TR also :cry: JK, had way to much going on anyway, family in town, new dogs to train, working two jobs, it's a little crazy right now. Nice work everyone, Norma sorry you were not able to continue, those are very tough choices when you are already there, I'm sur...

Nice work Elwood, just in case you didn't hear I got two new lab's as my oldest dog finally passed away from "Cushings" disease, anyway the two labs have been named "Jake and Elwood" one is black the other brown, two brothers that are 8 months old, so they will be going out when ...

Tahquitz, Suicide Rock, Ontario, Bighorn, Timber, Telegraph, Thunder, and Tyndall, someone's been a busy boy.

Great pictures, nice work.

Great pictures as always Norma

https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i484/albums/rr207/cougarmagic/Ontario%20Peak/OntarioPeak_14resized.jpg Norma climbs the tree Another Hiker was spoted in that same tree on Saturday morning 8/14/10 at around 9 AM and it's hard to make out who it is but I'll give you three guesses a...

Thanks everyone for the nice comments, I really liked the trip. Patrick, I think we may be talking about two different people. The two camping at Kelly's camp are not who Sal is, they were a man and wife couple I think. I heard from the ranger at the parking lot station that they were showing him p...

Someone coming down from Ontario said he saw a herd of 6 sheep on his way up to the summit. Victor that was my friend Bryan that saw the six big horn on the south side of the third false summit comming away from Bighorn on the way to Ontario, that other guy Sal was at the saddle just above Kelly's ...

It took me a week before it dawned on me that Eman posted this thread here - is it because Norma's a "Flower of the wilderness" to be admired or is it because she's starting to show signs of being a "Cougar of the Trail?" :shock: :wink: LOL Just kidding Norma - but Eman why here ...

First off, thanks Norma for the invite back to the mountains, I've been nursing a "hamstring pull" not quite a tear that I got playing tournament softball two weeks ago in Pismo Beach - when will I learn that I'm not that young anymore :?: - anyway that was a great day on the mountain, tem...

norma r wrote: new license plate frame... "Peakbaggers Go All The Way"

And they prefer to be UP more than they prefer to be down anyday

He219 wrote:Nice job, Elwood!

Patrick, that would be from the Grand Prix fire of 2003.

Fritz, is that the same one that caused all the damage on the north west facing slopes of Ontario as well? That forest of death

That's just before I started hiking so I'm not up on that fire.

Thanks

Patrick, my camera is waterproof. Super tough! If anyone wants to go, I'm interested in going again real soon. We would need at least one 200ft static rope in the group, as my rope is toast, and Johnny's 60m dynamic probably wouldn't last long if we used it there again. Static is really the only ap...

My old obsession comes up three times a year - I'll be playing softball in Pismo Beach over the weekend, but I'm down the following weekend.

Packer Greg, the website looks nice, great work.

Hope to see you there sometime (at the pack station that is)

Nice work TACO and Johnny

Great shots of the rappelling

I'm guessing that you have a water tight bag or a water proof camera?

When's the next one of those?

Nice work Jake (and Elwood)

Those are some very informative pictures, that area looks beat up from a previous fire - any idea when that was?

Gonna have to jump in with you on one of these wild ones - when the temp's are a little cooler - the heat fries me.

Thanks for sharing that TR

Long time friend needed to get out and do warm up hike for Whitney that he's doing in a month - 07-12. Up the main trail and down the main trail, just "Ho Hum" :D https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i908/albums/ac287/CharlieMacbob/All%20other%20stuff/MountBaldyWithEd07-11-20...

Very, very nice Dave

Pictures are making me jealous

What the heck is up with this "Big Ass Ham" thing?? HJ Taco likes things that are off the the wall - Thus the TACO Del Rio (it's a taco stand by his house) Bad Ass Ham is something David Letterman used to remark about when someone would "win" something - I see you "won a Ba...

Hikin_Jim wrote:Thanks Mr. P. I might have to check that out. Do you know how long the show is?

HJ

According to the website it's 1 hour long.

It used to be SAR (Search and Rescue) now it's ZAT (Zach and Taco) or more correctly ZAR (Zach and Ryan)

Nice climbing guys, that's twice this week, you guys are making the best of it all over Southern Cal.

Hope I get a chance to join you soon.
Great pictures

Since the PCT cuts through all three of the (make that four if you count Cleveland National Forest) local mountain ranges and national forest I thought I would let eveyone know that National Geographic is doing a special on July 4th at 4 PM local on the PCT.
Check your local listings

Bad leg - HJ if it's the opposite leg to Norma, maybe you can tie the two together and hike side by side assisting each other :shock: :D Or I could take two good legs one weekend and she could take the good legs weekend after that. Sort of an exchange program. Course I'm a little taller than Norma....

Bad leg - HJ if it's the opposite leg to Norma, maybe you can tie the two together and hike side by side assisting each other