EISPIRATEN

It's been my non-professional's experience that under safe conditions, head shape should be used to clarify these identifications. On several occasions I've seen harmless Gopher snakes (pituophis catenifer,etc) wiggle their tails as though they had rattles. At first glance the patterning on their ba...

Looks like a juvenile Crotalus Oreganus Helleri: Southern Pacific Rattlesnake.

West Twin?

Nice critter footage Ms. Magic. Thanks for posting. Spring conditions are certainly taking hold. I saw my first adult Pituophis and Croatalis of the season on trail in the Verdugos yesterday.

Very nice video dude(s). Strange though. Where can one find buckthorn, yucca and manzanita in the San Gabriels?

Very nice guys! Thanks for the pictures.

Thanks for all the kind words, I'll be sure to relay them or get Jake to request his own darned SGMDF login. The gate just past Desert Marksman's access road is indeed locked. Apparently there was a separate chain-link fence erected past this gate, which has been knocked down, similar to that near P...

This past Saturday was a glorious time to be hiking just about anywhere in the San Gabriel Mountains. My increasingly evil twin brother Jake was intrigued by the trail up to Pacifico Mountain from the end of Santiago Canyon Truck Trail (4N20). He decided to give it a go. Any resemblance to persons a...

That's some spectacular mountaineering and a great report and pictures! Thanks for sharing the experience with the forum.

That's a great report and pictures. I'm jealous.

Naaaaaaaaaah.

Lower Bear?

1 December 2007, well before the fire. I WISH it looked like this today. I imagine there's more water in the reservoir today though.

Sorry Taco, Mr. Maxon wins this round.

Where are we looking? Where taken from?

How about Ross Mountain?

Winston?

Not being able to do justice to Dr. Turtle's eloquent report covering our snowy trek up Pleasant View Ridge, I've opted to just post some of the pictures that I took during this sublime hike. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/www.electricskates.com/Pix/Other5/IMG_3074.JPG Looking up 5N04's path...

I guess that qualifies as too easy.

I hope this one isn't TOO easy:

Mt. Zion?

Really gorgeous pictures MVE! Amazing composition, color, contrast, sharpness. Which lens? any filter?

Looking down towards Stockton Flat from the slope below NORTH Devil's Backbone.

Check out this interactive database, they're all here...

http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=1231

Don't want to have hijacked the thread by nitpicking over the answer. Taco got closest first. It's the East Twin, taken from the ridge to the triplets.

I took this guy from a bit further out.

Hey lilbitmo:

We didn't measure the snow on the backbone. I'd guess six-ish feet at its deepest. There was exposed rock on the bowl side if that's any useful indication. There were two or three sets of tracks ahead of ours; snowshoes and some crampons.

Very nice report and pictures Simonov.

Early Saturday morning I hiked to Mt. San Antonio summit along with Mark, Randi and several others. Conditions couldn't have been much nicer. The temperature hovered around 32 F, except while we were cooking as the sun filled the bowl. We started up Falls Road around 0630, as our group assembled. At...

Spectacular report and pictures. Thanks!
Baldy was spectacular today, as well.

Taco is nearly right, say looking in a mirror.