EISPIRATEN

Took a look through an old photo album and scanned a couple of my photos from May 1977. Incredible. Thanks for going through the effort! It's really cool to have a few more *cough* vintage *cough* pictures floating around the net. ;) Panamint City cabin. This cabin, a little further up a small nort...

In '76 or '77 we drove our big ole' 4WD Ford truck up Surprise Canyon got tours of the cabins. You should see the road now! You'd need a helicopter to drive up that canyon. :D walked into the mine closest to the smelter chimney. It was a fun day. Glad to see the chimney and a cabin still standing. ...

Filmed and edited by me for fun; it's a 6 minute short that was shot in September of 2010 but not edited until after I finished the Mohave and Crystal Cave projects. I think the weaker shots are contrasted against stronger editing to give the film an interesting feel. Finally, I made this as a word ...

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑I see their website is still up. I guess that's a good sign.

For what it's worth, Robert at Detour hooked me up amazingly quickly with a GoLite pack on the shortest of notices. I'd buy his gear again any day.

turtle wrote: ↑the trail to the mine from Heaton Saddle was actually in fair shape

Oh wow! Good to know. I figured that trail never got love and was imagining it a year worse from when I last did it.

Sounds like 3/2 mm wet suits and neoprene socks are a must. Good plan, river was pretty chilly! Does anyone know if there will be "heavy water" rappels? Turbulent holes at the end of the rap? Taco might know. ;) Seriously though, you might want to bring an ascender combo for the first per...

This sounds like a blast. Imma attend.

MattCav wrote: ↑anyone know when/if the station fire forest closures will be officially?

The press release in which they constricted the restrictions gave the impression that we were looking at another year at the least. You could probably find that link in the news section here.

I went up the East Fork last weekend. Went all the way up to the Narrows. The water isn't too bad. I'm 6'3" and at the very worst it came up to my crotch. For an experienced canyoneer the crossings before the gulch are child's play. I can't speak for the canyoneering section but the water flowi...

Any progress is good progress! Looks like they've been busy.

Burchey wrote: ↑Ski Hut Trail.

Hahahahaha!

I had a pair of dog boots disintegrate after two trips. Returned promptly, felt no guilt.

If something is an obvious defect or ends up not being designed to withstand the amount of use it will receive I don't see any reason not to return it.

I've always wondered when you would prefer a bowline over something like a figure-8 on a bight. Or prefer a bowline on a bight over a figure-8 double loop or butterfly.

Hahahaha! I've got little spittle marks on my monitor after watching the second video.

WHAAAAT. WHAAAAT.

I saw it two months ago in Ojai, outside in the cold, with no seats, for the same amount of money.

Highly recommended!

Yikes.

Anyone (or their evil twin) been up to the mine in the last few months? How's the trail/foliage look?

I should probably ask while it's on topic...

Anyone heard or seen an abandoned forest service tractor and or tourmaline mine up neighboring Bell canyon?

I had a report of them and I probably did 40 miles in the canyon trying to find it and never saw anything other than a ditched dune buggy.

Better than this:

(Friend of mine, no that's not his tractor, he may or may not be intoxicated.)

From this set.

Poison oak

I think I'll be less casual with those log books from now on.

Unfortunately no pictures, I was running video on this trip so it will be a while until that sees the far end of the editing table.

Some buddies and I hiked Vincent Gap to Heaton flat this weekend. • Ladybugs! (around mine fork and south of fish fork) • Gorgeous orange rosy boa (seemed to be stuck between the river and cliff walls so we relocated him to a slightly drier climate). • I was waiting for a while in the morning for an...

Attempt number two on the Hollywood Arclight was a success. Movie was lots of fun and totally worth the trip... twice.

No problems! Maybe next time.

The extra tix are open ended.

Damn! I'm up in Sequoia. Sounds like a blast.

SNAFU. Maybe this is obvious to everyone but me? I received a confirmation email stating: "Thursday Nov 04 12:05AM" When I showed up at the theater at the specified time they told me I'd have to come back the next day. They then handed me the ticket and it said, "Friday Nov 05 12:05 A...

Had plenty of friendly "hello" waves from hikers, too. I had one FLASH me at sunset up in Afton canyon last winter. It kept taking pictures for a while, judging by the flashes. I'm sure whoever planted it got some great, "What the hell" shots of me investigating the camera. I sh...

Thursday the 4th of November - midnight

I'm thinking about catching the midnight showing of "127 hours" at the Hollywood ArcLight.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/127_hours/

Anyone interested?

Lilbitmo?

Zé wrote:much better

Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

lilbitmo wrote:I'll be dammed if that's not the same rock that cut the tip of my finger, who's been hiding that rock

LOL. I'd be curious what fate you had planned for it...

Dude that's rad. I always forget about that feature. Fraps?

Accepting creative critiques?
The clips toward the end have a bit of pop-in, is there a setting to increase the draw distance?
Have you thought about changing the color temperature or saturation to make it seem more photorealistic?

So you're saying it was bush whacking on a graded road most of the way?

I played around near the trailhead two years back, found that old mine sans barbed wire - http://dav.me/gallery/v/hiking/LosAngel ... anyonMine/