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I've read about that fabled gully bypass in two different reports. Very discouraging if it doesn't exist. FYI - An experienced group, including Henry Chen and Ben Crowell, tried to use the bypass last year and couldn't do it. They had used the bypass successfully in the past. But this time had to t...

Really like the Lichen Tower. Did you climb it? Thanks! It may not be obvious from the photo, but the Lichen Tower is about 1.5m high. The photo actually shows a different face of the same rock I'm climbing in the Bouldering photo. The rock atop the peak was really quite interesting -- lots of whit...

Boy are you good at those selfies. Selfies? Selfies?! Aren't I a little too old for selfies? :P How long can you set your timer for? I have a Canon S90, which has a maximum timer length of 30s. On all but the roughest terrain, I find 30s sufficient for walking/climbing far enough away to make mysel...

Nice trip report, Elwood. :) Saturday morning, October 5th I set off on a modest hike... Right about here is where I start thinking I'm glad I wasn't along for this one... The weather forecast was for hot, and I was looking forward to baking on the largely exposed fire road. About here, I'm 99% sure...

Did you see any signs of previous visitors beyond Ontario? Register, ducks, clipped branches, etc? Very few. On the whole it is one of the most lightly impacted regions I've seen in the San Gabriels. Between Ontario Peak and what I labelled "Ridge End", there was a faint trail in places. ...

Damn dude, nice trip and awesome trip report. You and Moose Tracks write the most literary TRs I've ever read. You've got a gift with words. Thanks Uncle Rico... I don't write in this style very often, much less on a public forum, so it does feel like "putting myself out there" a bit. You...

Thanks for the TR Uncle Rico!

I've always heard about the boulders atop Pacifico, and have considered heading there for some uncrowded climbing. Nice to get a closer look at what's up there.

This is a slightly different photo trip report - all the photos are photospheres (Android's 360 degree photo capability). Very cool... thanks for capturing these places in a new (to the forum) way. Out of curiosity, how do you perform the capture? Does the app walk you through a prescribed series o...

Great trip report Jim... Note that the topo map is wrong . The topo map places the junction far lower. Nope. Switch to satellite view, and you can see the junction clearly. The topo map also labels the trail on the east side of the mountain as "MT LOWE WEST TRAIL." Um, no. Oddly enough, th...

When poring over topos of the San Gabriels, Peak 6857 had often caught my eye. A lonely perch well beyond the end of Ontario Ridge, surely it would offer commanding views of the basin. Yet in the eyes of the USGS, it didn't even merit a name. The scarcity of information offered in an old forum threa...

cougarmagic wrote: ↑Ringtail. Cool!

Thanks! Mystery solved!

On a trip through the Right Fork of North Creek in Zion National Park a few years ago, I noticed some remarkably clean and well-defined tracks in the sand . I've not been able to identify them with any certainty. They look much like the front feet of a variety of critters including beaver and racoon...

There is a time-delay of a week or so where you go from thinking "that was dumb" to "that was fun!". I think I agree with this, but Fish Fork is in my opinion right on the boundary between Type II and Type III fun . if you weren't exhausted and carrying a bunch of stuff That's e...

Sean, just wanted to offer my thanks to you and the other trail builders -- all your hard work is much appreciated. I finally had a chance to check out the Lone Tree Trail this morning, and now I'm wondering why I waited so long. What a great route! :D I can think of few if any other Front Range rou...

Nice job AW!

Have not posted here in quite some time but this will get me off the fence.

Fish Fork is a serious outing, and to do it solo... wow!

HJ, were you able to find out anything about being able to drive to Pacifico? Friends of mine hiked there from the Alder Saddle side Friday night. They had a great time, said it was nice up there and they had the place to themselves. I have to ask if they noticed if the gate was open though. Was at...

That looks like a reasonable plan to me. Though as AW notes, it could be quite warm... so pack light, with the exception of lots of water carrying capacity. Escape is never that far away on the route, and it is mostly well-traveled, so going a little bit lighter in the way of clothing and shelter pr...

mcphersonm80 wrote: ↑

This is fantastic... thanks for walking us through the analysis.

Steve (bluerail), Patti Jones, Tina (tinaballina), Kirk Belles, and I recently returned from an amazing multi-day wilderness adventure through the Right Fork of North Creek (Hammerhead Entry, Direct Variation) in Zion National Park. Local canyoneer and guidebook author Tom Jones notes that the regul...

Two big rapps, first one was 370ft, second was 350ft. We got a core shot on the second rappel. So, we had to pass it 200ft up in the air. It was uncomfortable, to say the least. Yikes! :shock: A few questions from someone trying to understand this a bit better... please don't take them as criticism...

Nice trip report AW! Love the sunrise shot... and that keeper definitely needs to be escaped sometime.

By the way, check out Michel Digonnet's description of Bad Canyon in "Hiking Death Valley". I keep hoping one of our canyoneers will take on it's 200 foot dryfall. A photo from Bad Canyon of a smaller (but much more aesthetic) dryfall down canyon from the 200 foot dryfall you mention. htt...

cougarmagic wrote: ↑ Rough ideas -the course would include one bagged peak, one geocache ... a rappel or two ... a bouldering problem

I expected better from the HSS founder.

Everyday, you're looking at the numbers incorrectly. I hope someone with more statistical skills or evidence-based means can chime in. I *believe* you need to look at the numbers from a per capita point-of-view or something along those lines. The metric I've personally found most insightful when co...

A few of my pictures from the trip are below, the rest are on Flickr . Ty on the approach... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1202924/6460220363_575bc66fa7_z.jpg Luke in the heart of the canyon... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1202932/...

I lost my SPOT device on a trail run in the Chantry Flats area this morning. :cry: Fortunately, it had first separatred from my body so I did not go missing with it. Alas, it cannot press its own buttons... It could be anywhere along the Upper Winter Creek, Hoegee's, and Lower Winter Creek trail loo...

Wow... those are really nice pictures!

They remind me that it's getting to be that time of year. Need to get up to Baldy sometime soon!

From the Caltech Alpine Club: Join us at Caltech in Pasadena Tuesday, November 1, 8:15 pm as Michelle Peot, who lives in Bishop, CA and works remotely for an internet search company, tells us of her solo journey across the magnificent ridge that has thwarted so many other capable climbers. The Calte...

Very nice!

On my morning trail run this morning I could see... ummm... Burbank Airport?

Admit it, though, weren't you at least a little bit tempted to keep on going over to the North Rim?

geez, they were very wordy back then. Perhaps. But they've apparently got more smarts than a Taco, a Turtle, and a Sweetstacks combined: In all the Sierra Madre there is no wilder spot, I think, than this region ... a mile above the mouth of the Iron Fork, the river is joined by Fish Fork ... A nar...