EISPIRATEN

there is a fascination with that bridge that exists in the middle of nowhere. everyone should get out there at least once. i hiked it on a day that reached 80+ degrees and enjoyed the water crossings and relaxing at the pools of water just beyond the bridge. wish every hike had a clean pool of water...

edenooch wrote:Forgot the celebratory stuff back in eagle rock.....along with my oakleys and.........CAMERA!!!!!

man, it just keeps getting worse! are you sure it was a great hike?

wind is miserable adversary at times. your TR David, made me feel the cold and the sheer determination it took to make that summit. congrats to you and Eric!

Dave, that was a longgggg hike! great pix! you recorded the adventure well. go get a foot massage or two this week. you deserve it!!

edenooch, can you believe it? no animal sightings. though HikeUp did see deer that morning.

Terry, would have been nice to meet you. i try to say Hi to all i pass in on the trails. hope you enjoyed your day as much as we did.

Having been fascinated with the videos by Cougarmagic that i became familiar with through this board, I contacted her when she posted the thread about retrieving a camera near Henninger Flats. Saturday i hiked with Cougarmagic (Joanna) and Dave (last name?) into Eaton Canyon to retrieve the camera s...

HikeUp, it was nice to meet you (again) too. don't know if i will get to writing a TR and posting pix tonight or tomorrow? i have another hike to pack for right now, but it was a very enjoyable day with cougarmagic and all...

deja vu, where did u find the big deep caves? missed that! if you hike from the mis-named Boney Mtn summit south to Tri-Peaks follow the trail. you will come to the Swiss Cheese Rock, keep going, eventually you come to the large rock opening to the right of the trail, kind of like a main entrance i...

your flapjack spaceman made me LOL.

yikes, did FO change his name and grab a paddle?

Great TR! Cool!... gotta go check out Falling Fir Ridge.

First snow of the season? Wow! Didn't realize till this moment that we had snow. Getting my snowshoes ready...

so sad. i have yet to see the camp but have hiked the canyons near there and they are beautiful. the cabins & structures are pure history and it would be a shame to see this legacy end.

i will write a letter.

i haven't heard of any recent Cheseboro sightings, but a large male was seen by a Sierra Club group in Sycamore 3-4 weeks ago. in Sycamore i know where they have a trap (to collar) and a camera like you put out to watch the cat traffic. i'll ask my mtn biking friends what they have seen recently and...

Nice bear scat! And that is definitely, 100% a cougar scrape Cool! do you think that the cougar was scraping cuz it smelled us? i should have gone to look where i took a "break" and see if there was any scraping there too. that's twice in a row now where a cougar has been on the trail aft...

I took a hike out into my backyard of the Los Padres National Forest to the Topa Topa Bluffs via the Red Reef Trail. The peaks that make up this mountain rise above Upper Ojai and can be seen from the Ventura County shores of the Pacific Ocean. The mountain is layered in bands of red & brown sed...

i agree that there are way too many people that don't know the first thing about trail etiquette. the first Meetup i did was Baldy via the village. just before i summited there was a group coming down that barreled past me and made me move over to get out of their way. Wrong! btw... they were white,...

beautiful photo! i love Osprey's. i got to watch them this summer up at Lake Almanor. i need a better camera as i did not get any worthy shots.

DaddyLongLegs wrote:

TacoDelRio wrote:Don't think it's the Kaweah group?

Yes. Someone at summitpost made a compelling case that it's the Kaweah group.

that's fascinating!! cool thread.

thanx Alan! that did it.

so very cool!

Great photos from all and info from Siminov. that was a spooktacular way to spend Halloween.

hmm?... don't know why, but i cannot post a hyperlink to my WebAlbum. it's listed as public, so i don't know what the matter is? any help would be appreciated.

thanx.
norma

a very interesting hike indeed... we started out in the lush canyon forests of Big Santa Anita Canyon and topped out at a fire break on Newcomb Pass. we then headed east on the Rim Trail and walk though charcoal remains of miles of forest devastated by the Station Fire. we did see a garder snake, se...

LOVE IT! snow, snow, can't wait for SNOW!

i did day one a few years ago and learned to self arrest in every position of a fall. i recommend it.

i'd like to go back to take day two.

thanks for posting the info.

Did you taste the water at all? Was it very salty? no, i did not taste it. Bradley filled his Nalgene on the way down and did not say that it tasted "funny." he said he has filled up there many times so i assume it is not salty. btw... last time i was in the Sespe Wilderness we saw a bear...

I did a hike yesterday up to Reyes Peak, elevation 7,514 feet, via the Chorro Grande Trail. nice hike, awesome views with 13+ miles and 3,400 feet elevation gain. we saw that a mtn lion had walked the trail after us, as we headed down. would have been cool to see him/her. nice hike if you are ever i...

WooHoo! congrats on a great hike! thanks for the info and photos. loved the sunrise! this one is also on my to-do list.

great photos Dave! so sorry to see the markings of a sociopathic visitor to the mountains. i refuse to call the perpetrator a regular hiker they are more like an irregular invader of what should be a lovely canyon. :D Liam, you done splendid! at this rate, you will be able to hike Whitney and have f...

great photos! beautiful waterfall. looks like lots of fun.

i think that "Nathan" (whose photo you used) was on the hike of Thor Peak this weekend that i participated in. i seem to remember hearing that Nathan he was from KRVH. small hiking world...