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My wife and I section-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from Cloudburst Summit at mile 398 to the Mill Creek Fire Station at mile 419 over the course of three days. Along the way we passed near the summit of Pacifico Mountain, but didn't get much of a view because we were inside of a cloud at the ...

Nice panorama! You can check out the peaks visible from there using Peakfinder https://www.peakfinder.org/?lat=36.3086 ... ern%20Peak If you haven't purchased it yet, get the $5 Peakfinder Earth App and pre-load it with all the peaks in California over wifi. It works without cell signal after that. ...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! It was definitely one of the best trips I've been on, so it mostly wrote itself. Except that it took me until now to actually write it (from last August). Real life got in the way, I guess. Until recently, when I suddenly had too much time thanks to the stupid vi...

In August 2019 My wife and I spent a week backpacking on the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park. This is one of the most popular trails in Canada. The trail travels both on the beach and through a temperate rain forest, along the Straight of Juan de Fuca on the southern coast of Vancouver...

Saw this on another forum. RIP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rescu ... spartandhp

Thanks for the write up! Of all the peaks in the San Bernardino NF, I think I like Shields the best. Climbing on that talus is a whole lot of fun. It also looks like you found lids to the some of the ammo cans? When my wife and I backpacked the Nine Peaks back in 2012, seven of the eight chained/bol...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! It was a fun trip, and I always have fun writing trip reports, so it's Win-Win... Jeff: Thanks for reminding me about my line: "It's the mountains. They go up and down. That's what they do. Trying to stay flat in the mountains is just asking for a heartache....

We backpacked up the South Fork Trail to Dry Lake and spent three nights there. This was our basecamp. On the second day we day-hiked to the summits of Ten Thousand Foot Ridge and Lake Peak. For our third day, we got adventurous and traversed cross-country to Dollar Lake, side-hilling along the nort...

My rare find over in the San Jacinto Wilderness: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/65535/48117089596_6d7bf091c9_c.jpg This section of Laws Camp obviously didn't burn during the Mountain Fire of 2013 - these blue shorts attest to that. P.S. for HikeUp: I posted a TR over on...

Old Coot: Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad you like the photos. But I can only take a small bit of credit: Mother Nature gets top billing. I'm not one of those photographers who take that one particular shot and then process it until it's perfect and present it for publication as a masterpiec...

My wife and I backpacked a 32 mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail from Vincent Gap to Interstate 15 over the long weekend. We're wimpy hikers, so we did it over four days. In fact, we're super-wimpy hikers, so we did it in two parts, so that each section would be downhill. Southbound, then North...

Guffy Spring was flowing as of 6/2/2019 according to the PCT water report: https://pctwater.com/
See "Part Two: Idyllwild to Agua Dulce"

The main gate to the road was open for Memorial Day Weekend, and the gate heading down to Lupine near Guffy Camp was open, as well.

Yet another metal triangle on the Wright Mountain Summit, 8505 feet elevation: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/65535/46968474465_526ba81eba_c.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/live.staticflickr.com/65535/47884534471_5e5a7bf990_c.jpg Too much paint is gone to rea...

You were exactly where you needed to be, right when you get to the sign that reads Private Road is a place on the right hand side to park (Legally) and you walk up the road about 1/4 mile to the start of the trail by a "Water Tank" just past the last house. The folks just do not want anyo...

Well, I was up there yesterday, May 18th, and the main gate was still locked. There were two guys in a truck who had just re-locked the gate behind them, so I asked them when the gate would be opened. He made a guess and said "Mid-June?" but he didn't sound like her knew for sure. I asked ...

(Old thread - technically this is the "official" current conditions thread for the backbone.) Ever since my son tagged along with Sean, Elwood, and I on the Eispiraten Forum's 10th Anniversary Hike up the Devil's Backbone Trail he's been trying to get his girlfriend to do the same hike wit...

I did that same hike with my son's scout troop back in the 90's. I was a lot younger then, but, man, was I whupped by the time I got back to the top. I know exactly why that last 1.5 miles took you so long! But at least you got to relax by the river. When I went, those fool boys didn't want to stop ...

Heh - Great thread - goes all the way back to 2008! But it's all about Blue Ridge Road, and that's what matters. Anyway, I was thinking of hiking a section of PCT along Blue Ridge over Memorial Day, and wanted to head up there early, on say May 18th or 19th, in order to drop off a cache of water wit...

We spent Thanksgiving weekend exploring Death Valley National Park, visiting many of the main tourist attractions like Badwater, Artists Drive, the Twenty Mule Team, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Ubehebe Crater, and the Charcoal Kilns, as well as a few less traveled areas like Marble Canyon, the Tel...

Just read a fairly complete article on yahoo news (that said it was from USA Today)

https://news.yahoo.com/apos-down-apos-g ... 41974.html

Nice TR! The Charltons don't have the greatest views but the hike is still fun. The one I like best is talus-topped Shields Peak, which is unlike all the other nine peaks in the range. BTW - those registers have been damaged since 2012 (or earlier) as I discovered when I backpacked all nine peaks an...

I found the time. I think I'm getting better at gpx files these days. ? Caltopo Map: https://caltopo.com/m/78V5 From the page's stats, it says 205 miles. 26,300 feet uphill and 26,800 feet downhill. 200+ miles is truly a Death March. More of an exercise in mapping than anything. Kids, please don't t...

And if you're looking for more suffering, I once calculated the mileage and gain/loss for bagging the SoCal Triple Crown in one long hike via the PCT. Thanks for the comments! Just out of curiosity do you remember what the numbers came out to on that? It would be one hell of a hike, but never say n...

Great TR! Well-written and a damn good read. You were already in the Hall of Heroes here on the forum, but now we may have to erect a pedestal... Personally, I think you should simply call this the San Gorgonio Death March and consider it a success. Great Job! And if you're looking for more sufferin...

HikeUp - Yeah, I suppose that's a risk of anything online, nothing lasts forever. Aside from wanting to actually have some discussion, that's part of why I post my reports in full both here and on /r/socalhiking. I've thought about copying them over to a blog as well just to put everything in one p...

Uncle Rico: Thank you so much for not wearing them in the second photo!

You had me worried there for a moment...

I use the Gaia GPS app which costs $19.99 - pretty pricey for an app, but it was one of my better purchases. I've since given out app store gift cards to both my son and my brother so that they could buy it also. I don't want them getting lost! By paying more up front you get to download all kinds o...

Thanks, Sean, for putting together a fun day in the mountains! It was great getting to meet you and Elwood. My son also had a great time and was happy to bag three new peaks (Harwood, Baldy, and West Baldy) as well as drink some beer with his Notch Burger. Unfortunately, his desire to bag West Baldy...