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Anyone happen to have more recent info than this? Hopefully some of the monsoon rains helped?
I was looking to head up FRC to Ontario and wanted to have some water for the walk down.

Thanks in advance

Unless there's a decent cold spell here I doubt the bowl will really get into condition. It's really warm up there at night and it was in the 60s during the day. There is a healthy amount up there though, I postholed straight down the bowl in 2-3 feet of snow. Snowshoes though seemed way more practi...

Those 3 goons you see going up the west side of the bowl were me and my buddy and a guy we met at the ski hut. We started up no problem but quickly started sinking up to our thighs every step, snowshoe time! After that made it to the summit no problem, but slow goin.

Beautiful weather tho!

Lets see if I can do this.. On the way in.. Its time to get out of here! Can kind of see the other side of the trail with the boot steps along the side, its all ice and fun to hang on to.. Same place as the first picture, just 50 yards up from that picture. For good measure I'm sure its way worse bu...

I went up there for a quick overnight during the first of these weak storms. Many many patches of ice and snow along the trail, without traction my lady and I slipped a healthy amount of times, especially on the way out when the fresh snow covered the ice. Take traction if approaching from Islip sad...

Sweet! Sounds like your car didn't get too screwed up! AAA is amazing

Is one axe enough or are ice tools required? If one axe I want in on the next trip!

Bump! Anyone know how fast snow is melting? How's the ski hut trail

No idea either! Out of curiosity, why no love for indoors?

Over on Mt San Jacinto, some cougar talk!

http://www.mtsanjacinto.info/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

This sucks. Shouldnt be able to summit baldy in January in shorts and tennis shoes.

Two questions! Where can I find said pictures?

And two, is it bootable? Supposed to be warm temps this week into next and I imagine there will be a pretty good foot path thru any snow, but just want to know that my buddies will be fine next Wednesday!

Average high for the summit is 9 degrees in February. Not that wild....

Out of two times eating at the cafe, both times the food was mediocre at best. Service was so slow and everything is crazy expensive.

I'd just take the tram up, go outside if your brave, and have a drink at the bar to warm up, can always order an appetizer there.

Looks like quite a gang again this year, are we gonna try to have tentative dates with conditions pending or will we have a set date soon?

After watching you guys climbing at hangar 18 it's sweet to see on real rock. Photos look sweet

I'd be down to run up it, never been but I hear it's easy cheese for a jeep.

Anyone out there this weekend?[/list]

How long have you had your Nagos? And have they stopped dying your feet?
Everytime I climb it looks like I just stepped in red paint

I'll post some pics from ski hut trail in a tr tomorrow, but there's a healthy amount of snow up there. About 3 inches at register, going up to almost 5-6 inches near hut. Was sweet.

I'm absolutely there. Had a blast last season and was just fun going up baldy with a healthy amount of people.

Hopefully conditions will be a little better for adding a little bit of danger to the self arresting scenario. Soft snow = meh

Bigger dogs don't always work either. A neighbor in chino hills had his 90 pound lab attacked during the middle of the day by a coyote. It's pretty crazy. Then about 2 months later a coyote tried to carry a baby off and they sent in fish and game and killed something like 22 coyotes. Sad. http://www...

Took the road up today all the way to Joe Elliot, where the heck is the tree that is so famous? I couldn't find it Definately high clearance necessary, scraped a branch on the washout right before the campsite. 4WD handy if you get stuck there. Heres some pics of the washout(with tree branches place...

Woah! No way, going to drive up tomorrow if I can drag my lady along for a "ride"

Isnt this road like never open?

Figure ill add a few here instead of making a separate thread if I can figure out how... On the wrong side of the river and we came around a blind corner and saw 2 bighorn males just chowing down river side. One started walking directly towards us not knowing we we there, probably within 15 feet whe...

Were you by chance up there with a bunch of other horse riders? I drove up last week sometime for a overnight to little jimmy and passed a trailer at inspiration point with about 10 horses. I was jealous!

Was a great overnight, thanks for the info.

And you were right, that water sure was tasty!

How safe is parking overnight at Islip?

Where is the spring thats near little Jimmy? Anyone know the water conditions?
Thanks in advance!

No mention of the skeeters in your TR. I hope that means they were non existent, but somehow I doubt my wishes come true.
How bad were they up there

Honestly even on weekends manker flats rarely fills up. You do get the occasional ruffians being loud tho as it's real easy access from the city.

If you don't mind driving the distance I've found guffy is always great, better views of both the desert, iron-baldy ridge, and the valley lights.