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My friend Brian was doing the 11 peak loop and started one hour behind you. He said he met you by Etiwanda. When he told me you were doing the 15 peaks we both wondered if you were going to get a shuttle lift. Never thought about going down to Lytle creek and coming back up that way :shock: That’s s...

Headed out Sunday to Cucamonga and found this doo-rag sticking out of a snow bank on the east side of Bighorn. As first glance I thought someone ripped off your logo but at further inspection it was missing the ice tools. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1030929/Pictur...

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We didn't need chains, nothing special was required on the bike, and it was fun downhill. 25 miles of downhill, I think? Who needs chains? Easy to carry em with you :idea: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1022923/diytires3.jpg Taco, did you happen to look Iron's way a...

Norma, like your pictures! Nothing like making first tracks I'm going to try to get over to Dry Lake tomorrow. Hope the snow is still decent. HJ Hey kids, This question reminds me: I'm going to try and summit Marion, Jean, and then San Jacinto from the Deer Springs TH on Sat/Sun, and I'm wondering i...

OK thanks. Looks like a recon is in order. Fun stuff

Nice report AW. Thanks for the beta. Been wanting to do the Mermaids for awhile now. I haven’t been in that area myself. Trying to figure which way to go up. Have you been up Big Mermaids Canyon and maybe try and do peak 4065 from the south? Do you think the brush would be worse then from the north?...

Nice! Looks like you went straight up stream while we went up higher on the ridge. It looked nasty down there.

Sounds ike a fun day to me! :D 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?... Thanks No...

I thought I would have to wait until springtime to try and locate Bighorn Mine. I had been up there earlier before the big rains came a few months back and found out later that there was an old Lapis Lazuli mine and I had been only a couple hundred feet away from the supposed location. http://www.mi...

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rsrsrs obrigado mas eu acho que ele é mais forte em fazer trilhas numa semana. eu só espero que eu não vou ficar doente na altitdes elevadas. E você, quando vai fazer dessa ´trilha´ da cume de ovis canadensis?

Check your PM

LD

Sorry to hear you’re leaving. I always enjoyed your unique hiking trips and write ups. I’m sure you’ll be back some day to complete one of those ridgelines or peaks around here you somehow missed. I understand Bob Burd is looking for someone to turn the SC reins over to. Can’t think of anyone more q...

What Sam said. Here are some shots from yesterday

Sugarloaf


Ontario Ridgeline


LD

LD, There are some sport routes in Cascade Canyon from the 80's. That's what I was looking for, though I think they're lower, as I doubt the climbers accessed via Ontario. I have some nice shots of the north face of that Canyon. That's probably what you're talking about. One shot has some sort of l...

Have to agree with Taco if you go the wrong way it’s a major brush fest. Trying to gain the S/W ridge where it meets Stoddard Road past Stoddard Flat is an exercise in futility. Way too much brush and slow going. Don’t even think about Barret Canyon from what I saw from above. If you go up Cascade C...

I don't think I'll ever return! That's exactly what we said :D It took us a year to even think about going back there. So by next October you should be itching to lead your friends back there. We need more signatures that summit register is nice looking. just needs a few more entries! Nice to see i...

Nice work Ze! How’s it feel to conquer that bad boy? It’s hard to describe to anyone how hard that ridge until you’ve done it. That going back up is just a killer. No surprise not all of you made it. Almost impossible to get 5 people going at the same pace on that ridge. You made great time too eve...

Hiked to SJ Saturday. Met those two skiers on top just before they dropped down the north face. One had a helmet cam. 30 minutes later met the snowboarders coming up to the top going to do the same thing. Thinking to myself the way this year is turning out they’ll probably run into someone climbing ...

Excellent climb Sam. Hard enough without blisters.
Damn, if I don't get off the stick and get around to doing this climb I'll need to enter a lottery to get a permit

"Bravo Zulu" to you guys. A lot of great pics and landmarks.With this route seemingly becoming more popular within the last few years it'll be nice to have a "legal" option if the hammer ever comes down.

Sam, next time you go up would you mind clearing a path through the brush so the rest of us could try it
Nice route

Kudos to you guys. Sweet adventure. It looks like Ontario Pk was a popular destination this week.

Thanks for your response, Lyn. You must have followed our tracks from Friday all the way up to the summit of Ontario Peak. Did you see our tracks heading down the west ridge of Ontario Peak? Yeah, I saw that. I've been eying that SW ridge. Thinking of starting from stoddard flats though and coming ...

Sam, Did the FRC to Sugarloaf, Ontario, Bighorn loop this morning. Can’t tell you about conditions in FRC past the saddle though. Once you get past the first waterfall there’s a snow tongue all the way up to the Sugarloaf saddle and beyond. Class 2 at most. Didn’t need crampons after the first hour....

Nice job on that! Wecome to the @#%@# club
I did it about 4 years ago but doing it from west to east like Rick. What stood out most was how rotten that rock was and great views across Mill Creek.

And then some :D https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i728/albums/ww285/lilbitmo24/Road%20to%20Horseshoe%20Meadow/HorseshoeMeadow078.jpg I believe that's called Walt’s Point. This is the time of the year you get a lot of hang gliders launching from here in the morning. Pretty awesome ...

Heck of a day! What's that snow slab looking thing on Pine Mountain's Slide Zone? Back away from your tools. It's not that time of the year yet :lol: Nice little epic with not so little miles Jeff :shock: Having never been down that area how is that Pine Mountain ridgeline? Is it pretty clean or ov...

it's time for you to join along! "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." :wink: I would have gone Saturday with you guys but had to work. Ended up on West Baldy at 8:00 A.M. Sunday but it was so smokey I could barely see Pine, Dawson or any of the Ontario ridge line. D...

I'm in since I already have the ace
Unless we have to start over from scratch. That would suck

Nice job! I'm not sure which is more impressive, someone finally getting to Stanley Miller or getting 9 people to follow you up there :shock: We should call you the pied piper of S.G. :lol: I'm lucky to get one to go with me :roll: Is mine bagging the same as peak bagging? Does it count if you don't...