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Reservation/permit required for that. Planning ahead takes away some of the adventure.


Fair enough. I had a permit when I went years ago but there were a ton of empty campsites and I got the impression they were fairly easy to obtain last-minute, but who knows if that's the case now. I bet the ...

What did you conclude about camera settings? Open aperture, high iso, long, but not looooooong exposure?


Haha well here's how amateurish my approach was...I have a Sony a7 I got secondhand from a friend and I could not for the life of me figure out how to adjust aperture in manual mode. I ...

why not just camp down at the bottom and hike out refreshed? best night's sleep I ever got. also had the best beer of my life at phantom ranch.

This is not much of a trip report, unless you consider driving two hours out of LA and barely leaving your car a trip.

There was a huge geomagnetic storm a few weeks ago and I saw online that that the aurora borealis was visible as far south as the Sonoran Desert, so I grabbed my camera and drove ...

Mountain lions and bears were in the area (found prints, scat) but experts were consulted and all but ruled it animal attack. Bears leave massive evidence. Mt lions can leave next to nothing and carry the kill to a hiding spot but no more than 500' away. All directions from the LKP have been ...

Has anyone gone back to the timeline posted way earlier in this topic and considered the following item?

2:30pm – two hikers returning from Twin Peaks hear what sounded like a female in anguish or despair
(not calling for help) around Twin Peaks Saddle area (estimated 34.32474, -117.93031 ...

mikeywally wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 3:13 pm https://caltopo.com/m/0S8M2UN <- some of my favorite running loops

oh hell yeah!! thank you

Hi everyone, I'm a new member. Unlike a lot of you, I did not grow up interested in the outdoors. For most of my life I lived in Boston and New York and swore that I would never sleep anywhere other than my cozy bed. I wound up moving to Colorado about five years ago, tried my hand at backpacking ...