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Have you been up Mt. Gould? Seems like an easily accessible 13er. I could be persuaded if you wanted to give it a go sometime.

A few skeeters, but nothing terrible.

I immediately thought of you when looking at Banner. LOL

That's a substantial "up" day.

I've not really been into that basin. Went to Marie Louise Lakes once, but that's it. Swampy.

I've looked at CalTopo and contemplated Agassiz in the past. Not that it looked that way from the topos, but from your pics, it don't look easy.

Devil's punchbowl area.

On my 2011 JMT (big snow year), I also missed that turn and hiked way up into Lyell Canyon where I wound up spending the night and adding a day to my trip https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/emojione/2.2.7/assets/svg/1f644.svg https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/emojione/2.2.7/assets/svg/1f60...

Every year a friend of mine has the foresight in the early part of the year to get permits for Yosemite. I'm never thinking about such things in the winter so I always end up having to mooch off of him permit-wise. Last year, his permit was for entry at Murphy Creek so we camped at Polly Dome Lakes ...

Nice teke. Looks like you had an amazing day.

That range is still unexplored by me. My anti long-drive obstinacy doesn't permit me to visit nice places like this for a day hike.

Guess that answers the question of whether you got in your Sierra trip.

I would have stayed one night at Dingleberry. Just for the name. ?

Moonlight looks very nice.

Jeff, how did you settle on the Notch v. the Rainbow?

HikeUp wrote: ↑

Sean wrote: ↑Haha. Maybe we need a thread for underwear found in the forest.

LOL. Search the forum for posts about the infamous ice house canyon strap on, if you dare.

Ewww.

You are the top bovine, teke.

That pic looking north toward Langley, Whitney, et al. is spectacular.

Looks amazing. Nice to see all that water.

Right on! HikeUp is hiking up again!

Thanks Sean for organizing this little adventure. And thanks to everyone that came out. Super fun day in the mountains. Here's some more photo documentation. 2_.jpg Just starting up the canyon. It was nice early, but was pretty toasty when we came back down. Btw, the road was in decent shape. Couple...

I should be able to make it.

Hells yeah jfr!

We will see.

Come on Girl Hiker. Live dangerously. And think about Jeff's grilled cheese sammies.

I guess the start time is 7 a.m. now fyi.

Yep. I'll go if I can swing it with my work sched.

Yeah, let's fire up those grilled cheese sammies again. That was sick.

I can bring some adult beverages to make things interesting.

That sounds pretty cool.

I'll show up for that.

Maybe we go to Claremont Craft Ales after and HikeUp (aka Likes Beer) makes an appearance..

And I thought this was an interesting flower.

Maybe Sicklepod Rockcress?
http://snowbirdpix.com/montana_plant_page.php?id=1593
https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=11414

David, what was the poison oak situation like?

Y'all got me questioning my own TR.

I went up the firebreak on the south side and descended the standard route on the west ridge.

Hmm. That last pic is totally out or order. I have no idea. Pretend it is no. 2 in the series.

Finally got back into the San Gabes yesterday after a long hiatus. Driving burn out kept me away for a spell. Decided I make my way to the summit of Lawlor where I knew no one would be. The forest was a madhouse. Big T was clogged with cars at the Trail Canyon trailhead (See TR by David R for detes)...

I was up on Lawlor earlier today. The firebreak from Lawlor to Barley Flats looked pretty clear from where I was sitting. The firebreak is well defined and doesn't appear to be overgrown. 20220410_124006.jpg I didn't try to walk it so I can't say for sure, but the old road didn't look that promising...

Sean wrote: ↑Did you recite the magical incantation?

No, but I had some edibles so that helped.

Wow. Tragic. ☹

Literally, the dumbest shit ever.

https://thetrek.co/pacific-crest-trail/ ... air-share/

I had to run an errand last week in Studio City so figured I'd try to parlay that into a local hike. With gas between $6-$7/gallon, I figured I'd try to squeeze as much out of my driving as possible. There's not a whole lot of great hiking options near Studio City. But the trail to the Wisdom Tree w...

Atop what I guess is Burbank Peak