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Dude! That is excellent. Now do it a gain with a camera! :D Thanks Hike Up.....with that extra weight.....no way Very nice work LD, except I have to dock you one star for the lack of pictures 8) I've been curious about this ridge. Good to know this one is fairly straightforward. So now our hiking h...

Saturday myself and some hiking friends decided to do a three prong “attack” on Mt. Baldy. (Guess I’ve been watching too many episodes of Battles BC on History. Love that show) Three would go up Register ridge, two up Ski hut and I would lead my friend Maria up “No Name Ridge”. Except for the three ...

Did you guys happen to notice any sub 3 hr ascent times in the register in the past year or so? Just curious if any fast trail runners have been up since I was there last in Nov 2007. I managed to summit in 2 hrs 37 mins last time (4 hrs 42 mins car-to-car) but probably won't be able to beat that. ...

LD: HA! That's a crack up! We were wondering about a trail that appeared to lead down into Allison. Yeah... I doubt there is an "easy" way to ascend Iron. You got that right but at least our way we had company :D These guys actually followed us up to the ridgeline for a good half hour. I ...

Nice job guys! Doing Big Iron in this kinda heat will definitely clean your system out and get you ready for the summer. If you would of listened closely you may have heard a lota bitchen and cursin on your left side going up. My buddy and I did the S/W ridge from Allison Mine. I don't recommend it!...

Liz wrote:Ha ha, LD. Thanks! Now...gonna buy me a couple cold ones so I can practice my technique?

No worries, I'm sure we'll meet up sometime. Lotta hiking this summer 8)

Liz wrote:No worries, LD. How you gonna pay me back?

Ha ha!

Let me introduce you to Brother Helmut

February 2nd 2006 Were you one of the guys intent on heading to South Hawkins, caching water etc? Good memory. We ended up stashing some water further on down the north ridge of Rattlesnake later and about a month later ended up doing the traverse from Rattlesnake to South Mt. Hawkins and back. The...

Just a quick report on BP. As of this last Saturday the north side still has good coverage. After the first few switchbacks the snow starts. This last storm dropped about 2-4 inches of fresh snow over a hard layer of ice or very hard packed snow. Perfect for crampons. Still a lot of snow toward the ...

was that Taco?! 8) https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i6/albums/y222/TacoDelRio/DSC01470.jpg I was keeping in shape to re-up before that all came to a halt. Was that the eary model of the Predator 50? I don't remember being offered a weapon as an add-on option when I bought mine :lo...

Sweet lord. 8) Think there's another way to tackle it? Taco, In my copy of 106 TOPS the author said the strong party that did it in May 1976 used a car shuttle between Buckthorn and the Bear Canyon trailhead at Coldbrook Ranger Station on 39. It doesn't say where they came down but the obvious woul...

Hi liz, That's a nice lolipop trip up Rattlesnake. Looks like you hit good weather. That hike is brutal with full sun. By the way that ridge is officially called "shithead ridge" A few years ago my partner and I were sitting on top of Rattlesnake when a young hiker wearing army camis and I...

X2 on the Triplet Rocks one. Not done often... TR!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8) Don't want to step on anyones toes about which hike is the toughest but this one has Brian's and my vote. There's a reason no one does this hike. I had originally read of this hike from Erik Siering report and filed it away in memory...

yeah I don't think I've seen another TR on Triplet Rocks other than this. Describe LD! I want to do it this summer / fall. Yeah, thats the one that got me :) I never did a TR but I'll write one up tonight when I get home. Mistakes and all. You don't want to do this in summer.Late May will be the be...

One measuring stick I use on how tough a hike was to ask myself "would I do it again ". Most tough hikes I've done it might take a day or two, maybe a month or two, but soon the painful memories would disappear and I could always be talked into doing it again..... until Triplet Rocks Talk ...

Welcome to the board Yamaya! Nice TR. I've always liked that lolipop,except for the rock part in FRC :) I'm just a newbie on this board myself and I've found the folks here super helpful. Hang around here too much and you'll have to up your game for sure :) On the waterfall you can usually go up a l...

Tim wrote:wild scree descent.

My favorite kind
Thanks Tim

Nice Tim! I see that couloir every time I come down Baldy putting it on the future list. Thanks for the TR and picts. When you topped out how did you get the chance to look at the ridge toward the SW? I was thinking of doing a 3T’s beginning in Ice House and ending at Thunder and following the ridge...

Hi Outwhere, Here's a link of someone climbing Snowcreek in the summer. http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~hollin/inde ... ruise.html His map is a little bit off but he mentions that in the article. Just be sure to watch out for rattlers. Sure to be in force that time of the year. Funny you should ask abou...

Taco, you beat me to it. I was going to call the thread the 4 T’s. Timber, Telegraph, Thunder and Taco. :D Nice picts. I like that route up the North gully. Looks clean. What are the odds of having 3 climbers from three different directions meet at the same peak? One more and we could have had all 4...

lilbitmo wrote:If you made the summit in 2.5 hours you must have been flying.

I can't beat that when I can "see" the trail.

NICE job!

Great TR Tim!
You've raised the bar for graphics,thats for sure.

Good to see all that snow coverage. Somewhere else to play when San Gabriel's snows goes away

Mike, love that shot of that solo climber

It will be nice when that trail around the east side of Bighorn gets broken. Forgive my innocence, but is it more difficult to break that trail versus going up and over Bighorn? Are the snow conditions that different? or is side-hilling difficult in snow shoes? No forgiving needed. Are you voluntee...

If you don't mind, what was your total mileadge, elevation gain and time? Also, if you were able to see down into Deer Creek, what did that canyon/ravine look like? There's someone else on this board (and myself) thinking of doing Cucamonga from Deer Creek. Thanks. Total gain was around 5300' with ...

I was able to get a hall pass today and never having done Cucamonga in the winter I wanted to do it while the ridge is still in good condition. Started out of the parking lot at 7:30 and with the trail to the saddle well beaten I didn’t need shoes or crampons. At the saddle changed to shoes for Bigh...

Hi 406, I was thinking the same thing. Although I don't ski, I want to climb that slope up to Timber one of these days. I got my inclinometer out as I was going up that before I traversed over and got an angle of just under 45 degrees. The topo says 1/4 mile for 1000' of gain to the top. :shock: Ju...

Nice pictures. Were any climbers going straight up the bowl? See any crown lines?

Tired of all the hustle and bustle of Baldy on a weekend. Then try Ontario Peak. “Almost” guaranteed to have the mountain to yourself. Left the parking lot at 7:00. There was a trail that was made after the latest storm and of course it ended at 6900’ again. This time though crampons were needed as ...

We had Chelsea for 9 short years and she loved to hike. I would have to spell the word "hike" when she was around or she would bolt for the door thinking we were going. We hiked a lot in the San Gabriels. She especially liked the Bridge to Nowhere with all the water. I remember one summer ...

Great! I want to get an early start. In the parking lot around 6:30