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Sounds ike a fun day to me! I had no idea Lapis is mined in Calif. Hope you find the mine eventually. Really like your makeshift axes. Quite creative! You had great weather and views since winter showed its face on Sunday. I can't comment on the hand reaction, any doctors out there?...

you guys kwack me up! thanks for the laugh!

i'll be taking an avy course soon, so i'll know more (and fear more?) then, but as i hear it the north slopes of San G et al, slide later in the season. there is a reason Mammoth is always blasting their cornices. not good for P.R. to loose customers. as i see it from my limited knowledge and the la...

Given that Baldy is basically clear to the Ski Hut, I would expect the Iron Mt. route to be snow free. There is some steep scrambling on that route, so it would not be my favorite hike with one arm in a cast (or tied behind my back). it was until today! :D not sure how much will keep falling or how...

Welcome back! Happy to know you're back on the trails and in the canyons.

HJ, i heard about your dad. i'm so sorry. my heart breaks every time i hear of an accident in this sport. as a result, i tend to err on the side of caution because of the reality of the risk involved. in regards to Snowcreek, it has its reward to those who desire it, but i tell you, going up the ski...

camera equipment. plus, i think it wears it to keep him balanced! 8)

Matt,
Funny, i almost did Iron yesterday, but headed a bit south into the SGW. Now you know why John Robinson called, Big Iron, The Mother of All Trails. She will get your attention!

You will be back!!!

Took a great little hike yesterday to Charlton Peak with Jim (Calicokat) and guess what?... There's snow in the San Gorgonio Wilderness! :D It's not fresh snow but above Horse Meadows on the South Fork Trail the snow is hanging on. Gotta' love the north facing slopes! We booted it up to South Fork M...

Dunno though. Klutz like me should probably stay away from sharp, pointy things and stick with hiking and backpacking. Looks fun and tempting though. HJ stick with hiking and backpacking... and flammable equipment? :wink: As my hiking friends will attest my middle name ain't Grace! But i just LOVE ...

Do you know if SMI provides equipment for those who sign up? One of my hesitations for coming on this sort of thing is that I don't own all of the equipment necessary. I've got an axe and 'pons (vintage 80's stuff), but that's about it. Jim, I looked at their website and i didn't see a mention, but...

Be happy up there Joe. Good luck!

Left trailhead parking lot around 9pm Friday after one of the strangest experiences of my life at Golden Donuts Inn in Redlands on the way over Well, i'm glad you love your tent so much :shock: and that it worked well, sorry about the up-chuck and the summitless trip, but pleaseeeee, i can't take t...

Thanks for posting Hvydrt. Beautiful sunrise photos! It must have been cold at that hour and with that wind, but what a sight to behold! Nice to see that San G is holding onto its snow.

Great effort Sam and Patrick on what can be an awesome San Gabriel snow climb when there is plenty of snow. You know i didn't think about the fact that the low snow might make it possible to see airplane wreckage. (hmm... should we try and endure a summer ascent?) I knew coming down FRC was gonna' b...

Do you guys have any tips/ideas on some good, reasonably priced winter courses around here? I know the Sierras definitely do, but I am kind of limited right now, so any thoughts are appreciated! Oh, and no I actually did not hear about that incident. That must have been quite an experience. So the ...

No winch necessary back then. I heard storms completey changed the canyon and made it impossible to drive through. I'm sure the winter of '79 was a disaster there. We were told a legend that they had melted silver into a large ball to roll down canyon, and while they were getting it down a huge stor...

Took a look through an old photo album and scanned a couple of my photos from May 1977. Panamint City cabin. I'm told that the group of hippies we found there lived full-time in the canyon through the 1970's. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_tLZpFwoRpyI/TTlaM4wOBiI/AAAAAAABGNg/-AP5yHvAfPE/s512/Panamint City 05...

Loved the salamander or whatever it is

:D Welcome to the board! Glad you had a great time and enjoyed the clinic. That day was kinda the beginning of the winter heat wave we are experiencing and the snow was very soft and forgiving. As i said that day, the glisssades and self-arrests were in slow-mo. As you probably saw last weekend Bald...

I took out my new Primus Omnifuel last night to Echo Mountain. It's like a dream stove. It's the Cadillac of stoves -- really nice. Hard to go back to MSR stoves after you've seen Swedish precision. What time are you all going to arrive Saturday morning? If there were something the boys might like ...

No criticism from me. I still make mistakes when spelling, let alone the tougher challenges i try. I'm still amazed at the balls you guys have. :shock: I'll take mountaineering any day over that! Your videos are great though. In '76 or '77 we drove our big ole' 4WD Ford truck up Surprise Canyon got ...

Layne Cantrell wrote: ↑Joking but... perhaps you're right. It's starting to look a little bit like 2009 was the last great year for ACH. It used to seem so permanent to me, but now I don't think it's ridiculous to wonder if the highway will even be here in 20 years.

another Bridge to Nowhere?...

The pine cones I set out pointing up the path helped him find the way from falls road. Luckily he spotted them before Norma kicked them off the road a short time later ;] :wink: anytime Fritz! i am to pleeze! wow, a two'fer! :D you got to ride the bowl two weekends in a row. looked like a great gro...

How's the knees?

Hike, Taco hike! very nice.

Tracie, great photos! You captured the day!

:D Taco, what a VERY FUN day we had! Thank you for organizing the day and directing us to the west bowl that kept us out of the rime ice trajectory. The warm sun and soft snow made glissading and self arrest happen in slow mo but at least those that were there for the first time got an "idea&qu...

Nice little TR and scramble. Loved the pic of the fungi and the SG Valley to the ocean. Cool!

This will not be on the agenda... Helmet glissades strictly forboden!

...to me the scariest part of the whole climb was the last mile of pure uneven ice along the ice house canyon trail between chapman trail and the cars, all that beat down trail from everyone tracking through there sent me on my butt twice - it was slicker than butter in a frying pan. :D Happy New Y...