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Very cool. Felt like I was climbing up it reading the TR and seeing the photos.

Nice hike. Looks like a fun day out in the Mountains.

Photo of the chopper landing near harwood: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i825/albums/zz171/Illusivethoughts/Pics/IMG_3664.jpg Photo of the backbone, almost no snow: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i825/albums/zz171/Illusivethoughts/Pics/IMG_3666.jpg Photo of t...

"CA: Hiking trip turns fatal http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosa...5/c ... fatal.html "A Rancho Cucamonga man fell about 360 feet to his death this weekend while hiking in Cucamonga Canyon. San Bernardino County sheriff's search and rescue personnel on Sunday found Sean Davis, 26, about two ...

The water has been running through both campgrounds all last year and there is plenty up there now too.

I think any mention to the creek's being seasonal is during some of the droughts and dry spells we had a few years back.

Funyan005 wrote: ↑Gonna go ahead and bust out the nerd in response to illusives post. Druids>wizards at kiting in everquest. Haha I played that game way too long

lol....good times.

Great TR Jim, looks like you had just as perfect a view as we did when we did the hike last month.

Sounds like baldy was the place to be on 04-30-11.

MattCav wrote: ↑Way cool, Jason. I'm planning on going up thataways between monday and thursday this week. Hit me up if you're in.

For sure. I'd like to summit baldy via the ski hut and also from bear flats, as I haven't done either route yet.

simonov wrote: ↑The sliced sausage soup indicated the presence of Pavel, and sure enough there he was in the last photo.

Yes indeed. He was a very nice guy to meet. Showed me some video's of a young buck carrying up two half keg's of beer to the ski hut, and the snow storm 2 weeks ago as viewed from the ski hut.

LoL.

Nothing special, I bet everyone else on this site has gone up to the ski hut before. Well guess what not me! My first time and my g/f first too :D We took off around 4:00 pm and hit the ski hut around 5:45. It was great, We were generously given some hot soup, with potatoes, carrots, broccali, slice...

crazy!

That's crazy. Which campground I wonder. 2n40 is the paved section before the dirt road where the trail splits to hoegee's or spruce grove

Did the snow melt from the fire under your feet?

4 hours up in the snow is blazin!

Went for a cool mountain day up to Timber via Icehouse canyon. I wanted to get out of the heat in the valley today and it worked out great. Hit the trail around 11:00 with temps in the low 70's at the bottom of Icehouse canyon. With all the snowmelt the stream was a raging river, the highest I've se...

Thanks for the info on the spring. How much elevation gain between Columbine Spring and the saddle? As previously stated it adds about 900' in decent / acent. The spring is at about 6600 feet. I also made an error on the direction of the spring. I tend to think of things behind me on a trail as sou...

Thanks, Hikeup. The pics are tremendously helpful! Is there water or a creek near Deer Flats? I am wondering about a future backpack for my scout troop. We saw 2 creeks/streams running when there was still 2-3' of snow on the ground. Which was March 26th. They were at points "A and "B&quo...

Cool, thanks for showing the route to the start of the ridge trail.

I was up Castle Canyon on April 7th and saw the same waterfall / drainage. Haven't ever seen it up there before too. Took a short vid here:



Glad to see it was still running / falling for your trip.

The pics from Cucamonga and Timber look great. Looks like you have a great trip.

I love to see hikes that traverse multiple environments, from stream beds to mountain tops. The stats suggest the hike itself was quite epic. Congrats, and beautiful pics.

https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i825/albums/zz171/Illusivethoughts/Pics/Turkeylegmmm.jpg Name: Jason Forum handle comes from a very long history of online gaming. Specifically from the original Everquest around 2002 which was a very fun quad kiting wizard. The name is usually my ...

Knees eh? Are any of the hikes mentioned above near this trail? I am trying to think of a back up hike if those i am with sent comfortable with the water level. Thanks for the help! You could hike up 3.5-4.0 miles up towards Iron Mountain via heaton flats and turn back before you hit the harder cla...

I want to camp at Kelly's Camp and hike the 3 T's and Cucamonga Peak. Probably start from Baldy Notch and do the 3 T's first, camp, then Cucamonga Peak, then down Icehouse. I'd like to have water at Kelly's, but no snow or ice on the trail. I'm thinking mid-May? What do y'all think? Your best relia...

We started up from crystal lake ascended the Ridge Trail up to Islip. We tried to clear some of the medium to medium large deadfall that we could off the ridge trail. It's actually in pretty decent shape. We lost the trail I think 3 times in the large flat sections about half way up. Thankfully its ...

Imagine seeing that guy crawl up out of the stream.

jeebus, glad you made it home.

How/why are they destroying it?? wouldnt that be illegal? call the cops/warden watevers. or just tazer em at least :twisted: I've seen people go so far as to even haul their propane house barbeque's down the paved road along the west fork. The whole place gets trashed very badly from garbage and wa...

think we'll hit any snow/ice? Nope it should be barren from looking at it atop smith mountain the ridges looked quite dry. There were a few patches in some of the canyons. It should be exempt from snow by Tuesday. Also they closed the main road past the snack bar, that was open when there was 3ft o...

The flying insects were out pretty fierce from the saddle up to the summit and on the summit. Couldn't really enjoy it being swarmed like that. It was strange that they were so severe at the saddle / summit and non existant before it. Thankfully we found a nice big flat rock on the east slope about ...