EISPIRATEN

Taco - We'll discuss your use of grammer (or lack thereof) another day. You interested in a slightly used (actually used once with you on Lightning Couloir) Petzl Adjama harness? I'm getting different harness. I also have three ATC's, you're more than welcome to one of them. Got a hot pink one with ...

Nice gopher snake. Why would you pick one up with a wrench? Was it a rattler?

I'll be thinking of you guys while I'm fishing off Catalina Island for white sea bass and yellow tail. I should be back about 4:30, can make it to Manker by 7pm to meet up with the graveyard shift. I'll bring some fresh sushi for the night time summit teams. Taco - you got "One Cup Saki's"...

Nice climb and awesome pics. Ideal conditions.

Way to go Bill. I think I'll be tackling this one again in the next couple weeks. I can only pray for cool weather.

TacoDelRio wrote:Only pics I have today are from doing a buttload of work on my 'new' 88' RX7....

That's work? Looks more like demolition.

I love the Devil's Punch Bowl area. Nice pictures. Weather looked nice dwon there.

Yeah that is a nice size bear. Cool.

Richard N. wrote:Langley in early August.

Richard - a fellow member and I were just talking about doing Langley very soon. But wouldn't mind waiting till August if your up for a couple tag-alongs. What say you?

mattmaxon wrote:Now you're gonna have to do Badwater (-250ft) to Telescope Peak (11,049ft)!

Thats a bada$$ hike.

Good luck with your final.

These red-eye climbs directly after long drives are tough. Yeah they are. In college, we used to do these all the time. We called them "suicide trips". It was much easier in college though. The drive home this past Saturday from Mount Mills was more dangerous than the climb I believe. :lol:

cougarmagic wrote:Barker dam! Yeah!!

Hey Johanna - I'll tag along and maybe do some climbing out there at same time (that is if you want some company).

On Tuesday (05-26-09), some new light weight mountaineering/ice climbing boots I ordered came in, and, like a little kid, after seeing them all purty and shiny, I knew I had to break them in. So by the following evening, I had my route picked out: the East Couloir of Mount Mills. I left my house on ...

Thats pretty cool. I didn't think you would think it was very hard.

Thanks Cougar. I would say in these areas, I was on the shady side of a glacier and was not sinking but 4-8 inches at most. I think it's a mountain lion as well. I don't know how high they roam, but all sets of tracks were coming off a rocky moraine and heading downhill towards the center of a ravin...

Insane. And some nice photos to boot.

I did a solo trip this past Saturday up to Mount Mills. Just past Ruby Lake, I ran into three separate animal tracks. I'm pretty positive that these are three different sets of tracks, as they were scene on three different snow fields, coming from three different directions. These tracks were found ...

Wow. There are some really nice pictures there. I can only imagine how beautiful it must have been in person.

Nice TR. I can't tell from your topo, but how many peaks did you bag? And what was the total mileadge?

Wow. Nice work.

And you're right, that would be a nice location for training.

Those are some pretty cool shots of the rattlesnake. I like how she dug herself a little burrow to lay in.

TacoDelRio wrote:Am I the only one who gets sick from springs in the Icehouse Canyon area?

I've never got sick from those springs. and I consider myself to have a weak stomache.

Bummer about having to turn around. Did you go with Jeff S. or rather did Jeff S. meet up on this hike with you? I got invited by Jeff to do Olancha Peak, but I had other plans about 125 miles or so north of you.

Regardless whether you agree with them using this bridge or their methods of doing it, I highly recommend bungee jumping - it's a rush like no other. And man, that's a lot of tents, even for a holiday weekend! I don't mind them using the bridge, not all, especially since they give us access to cros...

In the first picture, Mt Harwood is directly in front of the closest person in the picture, directly up the scree slope in front of him (although I would not go this direction)

EnFuego, the animal is from that email you sent me its that little rat, squirrel, raccoon looking things standing between the wooden planks... maybe you can help. Here' you go Zach. You want to know what this is???? https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i390/albums/oo345/enfuego469/Ani...

This past Sunday, over Memorial Day weekend, a friend and I did a quick trip to the Narrows on the East Fork of the San Gabriel. We arrived at the trailhead at about 7:45am and parking was already a nightmare. We had to park about 400 yards down the road. The entire canyon heading up the road was lo...

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seadweller wrote:YUP!! This is it .... how do I get to Harwood from Baldy? I have been up the Devil Backbone many times, so where exactly is harwood??
thnx

Do you have a map of Baldy area? If not, use google earth, look for Mt Baldy, and then look east a little.

Taco - give me a ring. I can plot any maps you want as long as its no wider than 48 inches and no longer than 100 feet. I can plot a map of the entire San G's for you from the Topo! software program, but I think I still have the name of a guy in Orange that has some nice maps. You would just need to...