EISPIRATEN

It was a really good day to be on that trail, I feel like every other time for me it's been hot. Real hot, which is why I always say I don't like it. After taking the lower route along the creek I might be starting to change my mind.
Thanks for the invite!

I feel pretty fortunate that none of the tree branches broke while I was climbing.

REI now carries a guidebook.

Pretty amazing event, nice job just to finish.

The book pages are the same method used in the Barkley Marathon.

This was the most recent collection on the summit. I forgot to grab a trash bag this trip so I left them up there.

Cool pics. How far upstream did you have to fight before reaching Idlehour camp?

December 28, 2023 Officially I had the week off - although I spent time every day doing work stuff - so I tried getting out a little more. This one was easy, drove up to the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park to start. The fire road is unspectacular, although my early weekday start meant that I didn't ...

Just a few more pics, once again a nice reminder why we like to live in SoCal.

Followup to this report.... December 22,2023 While I was driving toward Mt Wilson Missy sent me a message saying the Gleason gate was open again and it could be a good opportunity to knock this pesky peak off the imaginary list, so we headed that direction. This time we bypassed the first couple bum...

The upper part of Pacoima Canyon, right below Lightning Point, was quite a magical area before the fire. There was a grove of huge incense cedars, nearly sequoia-sized, along the Pacoima Canyon Trail before it climbed south to Mendenhall Road near Indian Ben Saddle. Fires have changed a lot of the ...

We gotta go! We can make it a group hike.

Right decision even if it wasn't the original plan. You still got to see some nice country.

Sunday I met up with Missy and we headed out to explore the area along with a visit of Iron #2, which definitely needs a better name. First we drove along 3N17 and visited Little Gleason before taking the road for a short while toward Big Buck Campground. Unfortunately a large deadfall ended this th...

Up on Mt Gleason:

They seem a little small for me. They might work as a head warmer. Although I did try to model them. (Don't know how to get videos to show in here)

Found this little guy while walking down from Icehouse Saddle. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231125/7ae5ae83642d7ae8055cef647e97d57e.jpg Lots of discussion on Maverick forums about what to do with the odd little cubby in the dash so now I have something in there. ...

I don’t remember Williamson being flat and open on the summit. Now I’ll have to go up there and look again. Thanks to your extra work I get to save the extra walking to sign in.

Wilderness Park in Claremont. This is next to the unofficial trail which used to have a marker - find a picture of that in the triangular markers thread. That's the fire road right below this stack.

I'm hoping you can work that acorn dessert into a group hike...

Is this a cairn? Baden-Powell summit.
Related question - when did it grow? For years the elevation was 9399, now the signs both say 9407.

CrazyHermit wrote: ↑What's that hole in the ground above him?

It's the water drainage.

Squirrel at Henninger Flat area.

Near Idlehour.

This was helpful for my circumnavigation of Lake Sabrina.

October 22-23, 2023 My friend invited me up to Tahoe last week and I couldn't make it, looking at her photos made me want to get one last trip up to the Sierras for some fall color. Turned out I was probably a couple weeks late but I still managed to find some yellow Aspen. While up there I walked a...

First off, thanks Sean, CC and JJ for coming out on a birthday hike! There was a couple places going up the first ridge that we all were laying down trying to avoid some wind, inevitably when we got up to walk again the wind would pick up. Still a fun day, it feels like you can almost see forever fr...

Nate U wrote: ↑......THE CENTROID. Great news. Now lets hope our El Niño Winter doesn't wipe it out all over again. Knowing the Gabes, it probably will...

Don't jinx things!

Little Lakes Valley is one of the best hikes in all the sierras. If you scramble up the rocks behind that Gem Lake with the snow patch there is a hidden lake which gets hardly any visitors.

Nate, these are fantastic. I know what you mean about the small mundane things being interesting - I've been taking the grandkids out for night walks and rain walks and pond walks and we explore all kinds of neat places.

I didn't realize this was Jeff's bday hike. I would have braved with wind had I known that (which didn't really look too terrible from Sean's vid). Sorry Jeff. About halfway up the ridge I was ready to send you a message saying you were right to stay home. It knocked me over once - the uneven footi...