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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dr. Drew on firebreaks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 507
Re: Dr. Drew on firebreaks
I've always assumed that we don't do firebreaks any more is because now we use helicopters and fire retardant. It's a lot of money to support firebreak maintenance.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Pt. 3,650 via South Ridge
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1875
Re: Pt. 3,650 via South Ridge
Wow, it looks like you did a lot of clearing! I'm not usually that ambitious, just enough to squeeze through is enough for me. Since you did the hard work it's now my kind of hike.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Orchard Camp
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2171
Re: Orchard Camp
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!
Thanks for the invite!
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Now It's Mine!
- Replies: 172
- Views: 27802
Re: Now It's Mine!
I feel pretty fortunate that none of the tree branches broke while I was climbing.
Re: Sasquatch
REI now carries a guidebook.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Bike riding: 2024/01 LA Tourist Race
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3954
Re: Bike riding: 2024/01 LA Tourist Race
Pretty amazing event, nice job just to finish.
The book pages are the same method used in the Barkley Marathon.
The book pages are the same method used in the Barkley Marathon.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Potato
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2418
Re: Potato
This was the most recent collection on the summit. I forgot to grab a trash bag this trip so I left them up there.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Idlehour via Poles Trail
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2340
Re: Idlehour via Poles Trail
Cool pics. How far upstream did you have to fight before reaching Idlehour camp?
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Potato
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2418
Potato
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 ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Dudes on Burnt Peak
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2424
Re: Dudes on Burnt Peak
Just a few more pics, once again a nice reminder why we like to live in SoCal.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Iron wandering
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2249
Re: Iron wandering
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...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Iron wandering
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2249
Re: Iron wandering
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 ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bigfoot coming to Sierra Madre!?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1496
Re: Bigfoot coming to Sierra Madre!?
We gotta go! We can make it a group hike.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Fish Fork
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2841
Re: Fish Fork
Right decision even if it wasn't the original plan. You still got to see some nice country.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Iron wandering
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2249
Iron wandering
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Now It's Mine!
- Replies: 172
- Views: 27802
Re: Now It's Mine!
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)
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)
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Now It's Mine!
- Replies: 172
- Views: 27802
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Now It's Mine!
- Replies: 172
- Views: 27802
Re: Now It's Mine!
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. ...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:26 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Sunset on Williamson
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3814
Re: Sunset on Williamson
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.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OnlyCairns
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8355
Re: OnlyCairns
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.
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Pirate Hikes for Pre-Schoolers
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9402
Re: Pirate Hikes for Pre-Schoolers
I'm hoping you can work that acorn dessert into a group hike...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OnlyCairns
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8355
Re: OnlyCairns
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.
Related question - when did it grow? For years the elevation was 9399, now the signs both say 9407.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Flora, Fauna & Fungi
- Topic: Dead Animals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5325
Re: Dead Animals
It's the water drainage.CrazyHermit wrote: ↑What's that hole in the ground above him?
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:24 pm
- Forum: Flora, Fauna & Fungi
- Topic: Dead Animals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5325
Re: Dead Animals
Squirrel at Henninger Flat area.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:00 pm
- Forum: Flora, Fauna & Fungi
- Topic: Shroomies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6064
Re: Shroomies
Near Idlehour.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OnlyCairns
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8355
Re: OnlyCairns
This was helpful for my circumnavigation of Lake Sabrina.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Sierra Nevada
- Topic: Seeking color
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1811
Seeking color
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...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: San Gabriels
- Topic: Grilled Cheesing Mendenhall For Jeff's Birthday
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1952
Re: Grilled Cheesing Mendenhall For Jeff's Birthday
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...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: News & Conditions
- Topic: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)
- Replies: 641
- Views: 20159
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Sierra Nevada
- Topic: GEM LAKES & SPECTACULAR FALL COLORS IN BISHOP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1721
Re: GEM LAKES & SPECTACULAR FALL COLORS IN BISHOP
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.