EISPIRATEN

You guys are SOOOOO right. I had a bad accident in this very spot back in May, 2003. HikeUp, the slope looked exactly like it looks in your picture. Even though I did not have micro spikes, crampons, an ice axe or any other means of self arrest, I continued on. Just STUPID. When the inevitable slip ...

Typical. I should probably place a warning here that "this post will be an emotional venting of frustrations" but, what is going on with the USFS????? I'm sure that there are some important things that they are doing behind the scenes that I am not aware of but, other than clearing some fa...

Great question, Taco. Every time we have hiked Smith Mountain over the last couple of years we have had to walk the road from the gate you mention up to the parking lot at the Smith Mountain trailhead. This is perfectly good road and there is another gate right at the tarilhead that they can lock up...

This is not a Socal mountain but if you are interested in comparing notes on what some folks can do in the mountains, there is an organized race called the Pikes Peak Marathon that goes up the Barr Trail each summer to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. At 14,115 feet elevation, there is some seriou...

Augie: My fall happened on Mt. Islip. I was taking the PCT from Islip saddle up to Windy Gap. I slipped off of the trail and slid down one of the chutes coming off of that mountain. My fall stopped about 40 feet from the Angeles Crest Highway below. I am sure that most readers of this board have tak...

This is so sad. Back in May of 2003 I slipped on ice in the San Gabriels and slid/bounced/somersaulted down an icy slope. I lost nearly 700 feet of altitude before finally stopping in the canyon below. I thought long and hard before posting this but I finally decided to do so for two very different ...