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The biggest benefit is not putting all that moisture into your sleeping pad. Yeah, you might have a point there. With a "traditional" (self inflating) Thermarest, I just store it with the valve open. It's my NeoAir that I wonder about about. You can't air them out as easily. What's the im...

Ok for 1.5 oz its not bad. It took two times to fill the large neoair. For .99¢ I will carry it just for that little bit of ease to inflate the pad. as always YMMV 8) Well, I used the Instaflator last weekend. Four nights in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. Two pads inflated per night. Two rounds of i...

I just read about the Instaflator and the microburst on another forum, and I thought you might want to check them out. Now, I don't mind blowing up air mattresses. I usually read my book while lying in the tent, slowly filling the pads one breath at a time, never breathing too fast or getting lighth...

Buying two and returning one after trying them out on your carpet at home seems fair enough; it's basically in "as new" condition. Also, I think you'll probably like that trekker pad. It appears to be made from stronger material than the x-lite. Did you get the 25x47 version? That sounds l...

My wife and I have the Big Agnes Insulated pads (along with the Big Agnes double sleeping bag) and I'd recommend getting the insulated version, or you'll feel like you're trying to heat the entire surface of the ground under the pad, thanks to air convection inside the pads. The Big Agnes version ha...

HikeUp: Banning complainers sounds like a great idea, but would we have any posters left? :lol: :lol: Yeah, I guess we would; this is a (fairly) civilized board... HJ: Cedar Glen seemed nice, and it's a good way to get to Kelly Camp for those who can't handle the full grueling 2800 foot ascent in on...

Nice TR! It's always good to see someone (re-)discover backpacking. I camped at Little Jimmy once myself, about ten years ago, and that water was truly excellent. I'm thinking of heading back there soon, just to bag some peaks and day-hike around, just like you did. And I hope you can join me in bec...

OK, maybe it was one really cold night followed by two fairly cold nights. But it sure was cold that first night, on Saturday evening. The Mt Baldy Village weather station reported a low of 37 degrees (at 4100 feet elevation) so it was probably about 12-15 degrees lower up at Kelly Camp at ~7800 fee...

This past weekend up on Timber Mountain I found a couple of stickers advertising the site and thought I'd come back by and check it out a little more in depth. Great site! Erik Well, those stickers just might have been left by me, so it's nice to know that they work! :) Welcome to the forum, even i...

I was there on Memorial Day weekend (ten days ago) and the spring was running fine, flowing at about 600 ml per minute (two minutes for a very full nalgene bottle). There is also a small pool/seep in the ravine 100 feet from the spring a bit further from camp. I saw a deer drinking from it.

I didn't see any register/log on either Hawkins or Throop, is somebody going round removing them? Maybe these peaks need the heavy-duty bolted-down stainless steel boxes like on Telegraph Peak. With beer-bottle openers! As for me, I always like to check out peak registers, and why someone would fee...

There are identical stainless steel bottle openers bolted to the registers of both Timber Mountain and Telegraph Peak, so now you need to hike the Three Tee's Trail to check these useful items out as well. While remembering the Boy Scout Motto, of course: Be Prepared!

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I'd hate to think that the Fall season pic was causing the lack of snow...

I normally stay away from threads visited by the Grammar Police, but I think this time that both spellings and usages are correct. I found this quote on dictionary.com : "In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dry and dead, home of the scorpion." -Gary Snyder Gary Snyder is a famous poe...

Got my stickers in the mail today. Thanks, Mitch!

Needless to say, there's a classic circular black Eispiraten sticker on the back of my truck already!

And now I have yet another excuse to go hiking right away...

There is only one pipe now. See photo: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6071993482_92337f4d01_z.jpg The new (PVC pipe) spring is in the small circle of rocks on the extreme left edge of the picture. The old, smaller galvanized pipe on the old (defunct) spring is no...

Thanks, Jim! Nice to see you back in the saddle, posting away once again. As for your question, no there weren't too many mosquitoes at Columbine. Of course, we also went to bed before sunset, so they may have come out for an evening snack. The gnats are also mostly gone. I like your route for the n...

Oh, I forgot to mention this in my original post: On our way out, on Monday July 18, we met some folks hiking up the trail who had a weimaraner as their "leader". A bit later, we found a camera in the middle of the trail. I probably should have left it there, but I didn't. And I probably s...

We hiked up the San Bernadino Peak Trail from Angeles Oaks. Camped one night in Columbine Camp (tons of water in the stream running through camp). Camped the next night at Limber Pine Bench, where there were gusty winds all night, but seriously excellent views all around. Limber Pine Spring was runn...

Back in my late teens (when the drinking age was eighteen) three friends and I went on our first spring backpack trip of the year. Now, one of the three was a bit overweight; he loved to eat, and always carried an enormously heavy pack filled with plenty of extra canned goods. Yes, you heard it: Can...

Lilbitmo: Thanks for explanation on Big Ass Ham. Searching the forum for ass and ham was an experience, but not a very rewarding one... :lol: Taco: Yes, I didn't like the sticker being covered up, but you have to admit that the sticker is now very permanently attached! Those are huge rivets, too, an...

I don't get up into the San Gabriels very often, so I post very rarely. Just the same, I've been reading pretty much everything on the forum for the last year or two, mostly hoping to find some good spots for backpacking, and also to learn about conditions, gear, etc. Reading fun trip reports is an ...

Here's a panorama of Baldy from Ontario last June, with BP in the distance.

I normally use Firefox with the "Adblock Plus" add-on, so I don't see many ads these days, and none at all on this site. (Taco - if you want me to, I'll make an exception for this board and let the ads run, especially let me know if YOU are getting some of the ad revenue!) But then a week ...

I was there three weeks ago, and the pipe was barely dripping, but the water was flowing out of the ground above the pipe, and filling the pool quite nicely. We filtered our water from the pool. When I look at your before and after pictures, it seems that when the pipe was working properly the groun...

I enjoyed reading your trip report -- thanks for sharing the pictures. Great times. Dry lake is not so dry -- what a huge difference from last year! :D We were up there last year on Memorial Day weekend, and it was dry. There was also less snow on the peak. We had a great season for snow this year....

My wife and I spent 3 nights over the (extended by me) holiday weekend in the San Gorgonio Wilderness, via the Fish Creek Trailhead.

Trip report (probably too verbose) and pics here

Or the Slideshow here

Or just go straight to the Glissading in Southern California IN JULY Video here

We woke up Saturday at 3am and finally got out the door at 4:30 for the two and a half hour drive from San Diego to Icehouse Canyon. We'd never been there before, so as we stopped along Mt Baldy Road to take the obligatory pictures, car after car went past us, heading up-canyon. By the time we got t...