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Ron and I went up the South Fork this AM. 4 wheel drive need from Angelus Oaks to the parking lot. About 6" of new snow at the trailhead, 18" at Poopout Hill and 3' in the meadows. Snow is heavy and wet. Postholing 6" or so with snowshoes. Took turns breaking trail, 5.5 hours to get t...

Wow! That looks like the area between Ice House and the village?

I think the 38 and 18/330 are closed also. I wonder what part of Angeles Crest HWY was destroyed this time?

at least the sierra is getting some, mammoth reporting: Since Friday, the storm total is 8 1/2 feet to 12 1/2 feet of snow! Mammoth received 27” of snow in the last 24 hrs and is expecting at least another 1-2 feet throughout today. This storm is only 5 inches of snow away from being the snowiest De...

Bens Weather is a great forecast for the Big Bear area. http://bensweather.com/

possum with leaves stuck on his rear? I once saw a lizard with an acorn stuck on his head. (he was alive and running around with it on)

Very cool. I am always hoping to see one. I have seen more wildlife mountain biking than hiking, I guess because you are going so much faster and sneak up on them.

Great trip report and reminder to us all. Where exactly did you end up?

Amazing pictures, the coyote pics and the self timed shots are awesome. How much water did you carry?

Very sad.

That clip of the hound running scared is hilarious. I like how you captured that lion from 2 different angles.

Nice trip report, that looks like a lot of fun. And those cinnamon rolls look really tasty!

bertfivesix wrote: ↑Some course suggestions..

No ice axe air guitar technique?

Good idea Taco

This was on the San Gorgonio Wilderness forum: Summited Baldy via the Bowl today (11-27-10). Arrived at 11:00am and ran across SAR on the Sierra Hut Trail. A middle aged man had a stroke and fell off the trail below the Hut. Unfortunately he did not survive. A group of hikers who witnessed the fall ...

12 people on a holiday weekend, amazing! They must have been at Walmart fighting over buy one get one free t-shirts.

bertfivesix wrote:....strapping on some 'pons and charging up the hill like you were taking out a machine gun nest?............the edge going to the ice axe for it superiority as a melee weapon and air guitar

Some of the best advise I have ever seen on this board!

norma r wrote:........ Making first tracks and breaking trail all the way to the ski hut was our reward!

Sure made my hike easier! And I was lucky enough to be just behind 2 snowshoers. I might start doing more of these late AM starts.

I have been trying to hike new peaks and explore other places, but I couldn't resist checking out the snow from the weekend storms. I had to work for a few hours in the AM, but after a stop at Chipotle on Mountain Ave, I arrived at Manker Flats at 11:45. It was warm for the first few miles of the hi...

Looking good this morning!

I have went down that way many times and nobody ever said anything. I even found a ski under there once and gave it to the lift operator. He didn't say anything about not being under there. It seems to me if you can walk down the backbone through the resort and up to Thunder Mountain to the 3 t's tr...

this was the view from Ross Mountain today:

Maybe we should come up with some possible domain names? I know zero about web pages and all that but SteveC on the whitneyzone page has done basically what is proposed here. He started that forum, and took some of the permanent info type threads from the portal store page over to the new site. He m...

I don't think the forum is going down. It seems to go in waves. I bet once the first big snow comes activity will be back up. Towards the end of summer and fall people get tired of posting/reading about a walk up Mt. Baldy in Sunny and clear weather........ I like the idea of creating a better url, ...

simonov wrote: literally take decades in corrupt east coast states.

In defense of the east, they don't have the luxury of near perfect weather almost all year long like we do.

I like the sunset picture. I couldn't handle the constant thought of a collapse while being inside.

The Design team literally worked around the clock for seven days on the bridge just to find the proper equipment that would not damage the bridge, but strong enough to lift and hoist the drilling equipment over the rails and down to the riverbed for the drilling operation........ That's not really ...

Looks like fun, and that rabbit you saw is neat!

Zach wrote:I was decending a riverbed wall/slope........the finger was just hanging there

Where was this at?

Ouch! Lets hope for a full recovery.