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Hilarious....the feds just put up a sign and now theres no waste lol. Ill have to remember that ..."but at lost coast its woke". I doubt this will catch momentum at say Santa Monica, but never say never. Sell a shirt that says I poop in the beach, Lost Coast collective...could be a big se...

Thanks for posting! I've biked up to (and camped at) the Mattole river mouth, and did a little hike to the light house over there. Was always wondering what it's like past there. Looks awesome. Is there a coast route South of Shelter Cove all the way to Usal Beach? I biked the dirt forest road that...

Vicki and I have wanted to hike the Lost Coast Trail for a while now, especially since we hiked the West Coast Trail up in Canada two years ago. It was a lot of fun camping on the beach every night, and we wanted to do it again. With Covid, Canada was out of the question, and why should we bother, w...

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Taco wrote: ↑Maybe california should ban fire.

Ban fuel.

Ban lightning. It started almost every fire, this year and last...

The thread doesn't seem to specify that the cairn has to be in the San Gabes... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/599/20770079164_c5ae9f2f1f_c.jpg Descending Mount Langley with a giant cairn, plus Horseshoe Meadows, one of the Cottonwood Lakes, Trail Peak, Olancha Peak, an...

I hate to admit it, but I've only been up there twice. Not being near the bigger mountains is one of the few downsides of living in San Diego. :( https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/5534/9669906296_6c241466b5_c.jpg July 27, 2013 https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.st...

I hiked up Moody Canyon Road back in February, and the buckthorn (whitethorn) was seriously overgrown in many spots. I hope your car doesn't have a good paint job! In April I spoke with the caretaker at the North Fork Ranger Station and he indicated that they might be opening things up soon, as it's...

The gate at Mount Gleason was closed at that time. While we were hiking a big truck came up the road, and they looked a bit like landscapers. I also saw piles of logs (dead burnt logs) stacked on the side of the road up on the mountain, and signs that some of the brush had been cut back from the edg...

Do the PCT hikers bypass any of the same brushy areas or are they just powering through all that stuff? We didn't see anyone else on the road, and the road was very close. Most of the thru-hikers these days use the Guthook Guide app, and its map shows the other roads as lines, so maybe they're nerv...

My wife and I backpacked (mainly) on the Pacific Crest Trail from Mill Creek Summit to the Golden Spike in Soledad Canyon, near Acton. It was only about 25 miles of hiking, but we took 4 days to do it. Why? Because we're wimpy hikers, that's why. As it turns out, being wimpy is a real liability on t...

My wife and I backpacked on the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Dam in Hesperia to Interstate 15 near Cajon Pass. We're fairly wimpy hikers, so it took us four days to hike 29 miles! Why did we do it? Because this was just about the final piece of PCT Section C that we had left to hike. The part...

https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/65535/51151514741_1feaae4efe_c.jpg I found a "Simply Fit Board" plastic exerciser along the dirt road northwest of Silverwood Lake, and NOW IT'S MINE I have no idea how it got there, unless maybe someone was using it for snow? T...

I almost always have a headlamp (looking for a new cool one) I've been using a Nitecore NU25 headlamp lately and am really happy I bought it. No batteries to replace - it has a micro-USB port to charge the internal battery. It's really light, and has several modes of lighting, including red light. ...

Thanks for the report! I'm planning to backpack along that PCT section soon (Mill Creek to Soledad Canyon Road) and now I know that I should wait a bit longer for the snow to melt. I know that if I wait too long it will be roasting hot, so I'm trying to find the right weather window.

David R wrote: ↑ The top is particularly annoying but fortunately this is not San Gabriel brush but standard chaparral which for the San Gabriel crowd is annoying but easily doable.

Ha ha! I like your description! ?

Thanks to your TR, My wife and I decided to head out there from San Diego. We spent the first day mostly driving and doing a big loop hike around the perimiter, then camped down the road a bit. There were several others camping nearby. The next morning we woke up early and hit the fun parts: Rope Ca...

Fun hike! I've been there several times. Once over the hill from Mortero Palms near Dos Cabezas, and twice along the tracks. The tracks were much easier, but it was a long hike the first time. The second time, I found a way to cross the raw tracks with a 4x4 and take a rough dirt road out to an old ...

I usually carry a super-cheap mylar space blanket (I actually needed and used one once!) For water purification, the Aquamira two-part chlorine drops work great, but they weigh a bit over two ounces. Takes about a half hour and the water is germ-free and tastes fine. I use the drops when I don't wan...

I broke my loppers cutting the brush Looks like a long fun day. If those loppers are the lightweight Fiskar ones, they have a lifetime guarantee. Someone broke mine, and I took a photo and uploaded it to their website warranty form, and they sent me a brand new pair. Good company. And good loppers.

Nice report, and it looks like a fun area. It's about three hours from San Diego, so if I go I might want to stay overnight. I know it's on BLM Land, but just off the road it's considered Wilderness, so no cars allowed. Did you notice if anyone was camping along the road as you went in, or if there ...

I've got the full-size InReach, and I also saw that REI ad and thought about buying it just to save a few ounces. So I can only tell you about the full-sized one, not the mini. (I think the main difference is that the mini doesn't display a map.) The InReach tethers to your phone via bluetooth, and ...

It's not your axe to take. You're right. I looked more closely at the picture and it has R.F.D. painted on the head. I would've taken a photo of me carrying it for the "Now it's Mine!" thread but then returned it to the Riverside Fire Dept, who surely must be the owner, unless it was too ...

Truly an awesome axe. I would've packed that out (if possible) and then posted the photo on the "Now It's Mine!" thread...

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I think that Kelly Camp counts as developed, since the name is on the official Forest Service topo map. But it also doesn't have the campground symbol like Commanche Camp has, so it makes me less certain. I suppose you could still use the map to argue that Kelly Camp is developed if anyone gave you ...

Sean - I like the new "Seasonal" forum header picture. Phos-Chek! Excellent...

I haven't found any weed, but I once found a small 50ml bottle of whiskey in a peak register. Much better than those stainless bottle openers on Ontario, Timber, and Telegraph, that only make you wish you had a beer. Does anyone know the history of those openers? Sounds like something HikeUp might d...

As I was about to leave a couple guys walked past, one of them saying it was a rare time he felt good about wearing a mask Heh. That was me, and my son! Nice meeting you! The two of us headed off to Rae Lakes and got there around noon. I sat inside my tent as the ash rained down and the sky and sun...

Good job! I love looking down Baseline Road from the Washington Monument.
I usually camp at Limber Pine Bench, so doing the whole thing in one shot is impressive!

Jeff: I've hiked almost 500 miles (of 2600) so far, most of it in SoCal, but also in the Sierra Nevada, and a couple spots way up north in the Cascades. There are a few parts that I won't ever hike, like the desert section across the Mojave. Sorry, but I'm 60 years old, and life's too short to hike ...