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Wow! Good job. I get tired driving that road. I saw a bunch of bikers riding up to Rock Creek last weekend. It looked like some kind of organized race?

Tim wrote: I lost my motivation and just turned around.

I have had days like that. A few times I have started hiking then just turned around because I wasn't into it that day.

Your pictures are great! I like the waterfalls and low light pictures.

PackerGreg wrote:How difficult could it be? The road....................

Tell us what you really think. Good stuff I like it.

From the OC Register: http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/files/2010/06/MtLionTracking.jpg He was known to scientists as “M56,” and by the end of his short life he’d had plenty of contact with humans. A radio collar allowed scientists to trace the young cougar’s path as he threaded his way through hum...

Awesome Tim. I was up Galena a few weeks ago and looking at possible routes. I want to try that route next winter or spring.

simonov wrote:Your own safety should be uppermost in your mind...............not a place for macho games.

I agree. Its more dangerous to pull out and let 1 or 2 people in a hurry pass than it is to keep going at a reasonable speed.

What bothers me even more is the idiots that think driving three inches from my bumper is going to make be use the turn out. I usually do 5 or 10 over on a mountain road. If some clown comes up behind me and rides my ass, I don't use the turn out just to piss him off. If he keeps doing it, I slow do...

Do you have a copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills? You can get a used copy on Half.com for like $3.00 http://product.half.ebay.com/Mountainee ... QprZ786679 Scroll down to the bottom.

Sounds like up were unsure of being able to self arrest if you slipped.

At least you guys have an excuse to get back to the Sierra soon! Its nice to have an entire area to yourself. I wish we would have spent 2 nights like you did. Doesn't look like to much has melted up high in the past month, but everything down low looks a lot greener.

kristo5747 wrote: The guy was wearing a white sheet or cloak over him.

Must have been a klan meeting in the area.

Great pictures! Did you need crampons?

Great way to spend a birthday!

Didn't see any ice. There were very deep drifts at the top of that couloir and we could hear lots of rock fall from camp. Just your style!

I climbed Split Mountain last weekend with 4 others from the SoCal hikers and Peakbaggers meet up group. We met in Big Pine at 6am on Saturday and took the McMurry Meadows Road to get to the Red Lake trailhead. We started hiking about 7:30 and it was already getting warm. The trail starts at 6,500' ...

Sorry to hear about the camera. Wasn't there a tent that had the same fate a month ago? I wonder if anyone found it yet.

Seems they are out in full force this year. I have seen 3 already.

I think someone cut a switchback.

Phil B wrote:Was there still much snow on the traverse to Mt Baldy?

I saw you yesterday. You past us on your way down on your first trip, then we saw you again on your way up on the second. I was the one that asked you what you were training for. Good job!

Nice shots. Its always good to have the summit to yourself. I saw similar patterns in the clouds on a very windy day at the end of November.

Fun Fun Fun! That short cut you took can be miserable if you hit soft snow. Postholing into those prickly plants is no fun, but it is a great way to go when the snow is firm.

Blue Dick
Canterberry Bells
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Fiddlenecks
Wild sweetpeas
Indian Paintbrush

Nice route!!!

He219 wrote:A skantily clad 20 year old girl shivering in the cold and wearing only a skimpy Cavewoman outfit

Pictures??????????

So your tent is still MIA?

Very Cool! Was it warm in your cave? Its been cold and windy the past few nights. Were you post holing a lot on the way up Mill Creek?

GigaMike wrote:
hvydrt- I think you might be in this picture I took...
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I think I am already on the ridge. I got to the ridge about the same time as the first group of skiers.

no compass, no map, no phone, no GPS, no spot, no radio, no familiarity with the area to my knowledge. When I was near the ski hut on my way down yesterday, I counted 32 people climbing up into the storm. I remember thinking how many of those people knew what they were doing and how many are just d...

I went up the regular way but turned around when I got into the clouds. I wasn't in the mood for getting pounded by the wind. Pictures are here

GigaMike wrote: You need one of these...

Great movie! I might be up there tomorrow. Maybe I will see you guys.


Doesn't Taco have a hat like that????