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Cy Kaicener wrote:Three hardy people made it up to the peak last Saturday in below freezing temperatures win a gale force wind - See Activity report
http://www.outdoorsclub.org/Pasttrip/Pa ... ney&area=1

THat Scott Swaney is an animal, takes determination to continue to the summit in conditions like that.

Tom and I headed into the San Gabriels today for a quick hike up Mnt. Pacifico. Weather was beautiful, a little frosty be so clean and clear. We hike up via the PCT from Mill Creek and hiked down the road. Had fun at the top climbing the 4th class summit block. There is a video of the summit block a...

Great trip repor Augie, as usual!
You should post the video I took of you on the summit,
download it to youtube and add it to the report.

Great, I am looking to get out for a wuick hikeSunday morning and would love to hike in some fresh snow,

what are your plans? Baldy?

travis

Ok, I wanna know too! I'm even on one of those videos but I don't remember what he was using. This video of Rodgers is the one time I used my chest mounted pouch to hold my digital camera while recording the video. The pouch was very simple, I found a black, zippered pouch used to stow my cordless ...

Most of you have probably seen Travis' videos here: http://www.gpsmountaineering.com/mountaineeringvideos Some of them are pretty harrowing! On all or most of them he seems to have the camera attached to his body or to a helmet, since his hands are obviously free for scrambling. I am thinking of ri...

... possibly on my way to Gleason from Tujunga Canyon road. Hmm...what do you have planned? Sounds interesting. One of these days I want to do a car shuttle and leave a car at Mount Gleason and drive back to Tujunga canyon Road and hike all the way up, including Gleason, Iron, Condor (maybe little ...

MikeSash wrote:Super ugly pot farm on the way down though, lots of trash. It dumps you off right at the start of Lower Fusier Canyon.

Did it have actual plants growing or just the remains of an old farm?

Augie wrote:The second "t" in Activities is missing in the "Winter Activities" topic heading.

thanks, I fixed it.

Anyone know whats up with peak Condor Jr? Its a peak about 500ft lower just south/southwest of Condor. Once I make it out to Condor, I was thinking of going there too, since its nearby. Strangely, I have never seen a picture of Condor Jr from Condor and if there is a firebreak going toward Condor J...

Hey Travis, I just had to smile when I saw our route to Drury on your GPS track. It does look like an interesting route we took. Yep, it was a little "round about" wasn't it:) I should have had the "go to" feature on, I made a wrong assumption that this was not the correct peak ...

I know it is not within the San Gabriels, but the San Jacinto peaks offer many good 3rd class scrabling options, and many have 3rd or even 4th class summit blocks.

We finally got around to completing this 7 peak dayhike Saturday. It was great, perfect weather. We caught the 8 am tram up and 5 pm tram down. The route was pretty close as planned (except for my screw-up on the way to Drury), here is the actual GPS Track. You can download the GPS track and view in...

Buck Point and San Sevaine Lookout I am planning on hiking these 2 peaks soon. Anyone know if the road is open to drive to them from the I-15. Anyone aware of alternative (aka more interesting) routes? It looks like it would be a good hike to Buck Point from Icehouse Canyon over Etiwanda Peak. http:...

Travis: I went to take a look at your Google map, but I got the following message: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. You can generate a new key for this web site at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ ". Maybe it's just me? HJ I found the...

HikeUp wrote:Did you notice any hunters in the area?

No, I actually didn't anyone except a two guys camping along the trail just past the PCT turnoff. Nice and peaceful.

I am working on that, thanks for letting me know. I also did up a Summitpost Page for Goodykoontz.

http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... -Peak.html

Nice page!

I was able to get the OK from the family to hike Sunday morning with the condition I was home by noon. I decided to finally hike Pacifico from Alder Saddle off Santa Clara Divide Road, however I found that the gate was closed just after the 2nd camp. Change of plans, I headed to Goodykoontz instead....

why do you think they are paving the road? It doesn't seem like the ski hill is popular enough, are they going to build condos and a ski lodge at the summit of Baldy?

The following website can convert most common GPS files to KMZ. http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ Also, if you use Mapsource software, and have the latest version (which is free, go to help menu) you can also select "view" then "view in Google Earth..." and save in KMZ format. And I ...

hey, where are the close-up photos of your meal? lol

Had a lot lately. :? In a bit of a funk. Oh well, more time to research more junk. Ooooh, rhymes. 8) What you need is a good adventure. I am trying to get my wife to be OK with me hiking all day this Sunday so I can hike Olancha with Tom and others, but it doesn't look good. I am also still plannin...

thanks for your comments and praise, very much appreciated.

thanks, I definetly plan to do this traverse. I meant to reply to you in my last post, not Taco. Sorry

Travis

Since you all had such great questions, I wrote up a Trip Report to answer them all, http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/3 ... verse.html And Rick, no, we did not do the Galena to Little San G traverse, but we checked it out and I want to now. Had I known we would have incldued it in this traverse...

We originally planned to hike Olancha ysterday, but since it was a long ways to go with a threat of bad weather, we hiked 6 peaks in the San Bernardino Mountains, the opposite ridge as the 9 Peak Grand Traverse. It was fun, rain threatened but never materialzed. http://www.gpsmountaineering.com/yuca...

Crazy, I was planning on hiking Olancha yesterday, but the risk of snow turned us away and we did a hike in the San Bernardino mnts instead. Thanks for the post,

I AM REALLY ITCHING TO GET OUT INTO THE MOUNTAINS. I WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE THIS HIKE ON THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE MOUNTAINS ARE OPEN AGAIN. SO FAR AUGIE AND TACO HAVE CONFIRMED..... Nov. 11th or Nov. 18th.

:lol: Travis, I'm not sure about how to get back. Since R39 is closed, I cna't exactly stash a bike in good time. So, good question... I figure I am game to go up the east ridge as far as Triplet Rocks then turn back the way we came, going all the way up and over Twin Peaks looks to be too much of ...