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My family wants to try their luck up Timber tomorrow. Anybody been up Icehouse this week? Is there significant snow on the trail? They don't have micro spikes.

hmm. thats weird. I thought it was common because I typically do have problems with these types of stoves (green propane can) when temps drop below 20f. I even went to Big5 there in Yucca Valley and picked up one of the single burner butane stoves (fuel bottle looks similar to a spray paint can) and...

Yup, those big green cannisters. This was a car camping trip over New Years that I'm referring to. I also went out there on an overnight recently but on that one my alcy stove worked fine just boiling ramen for 1. Maybe the white gas stove is the way to go then. I even thought about taking a very si...

great post! i was thinking about contacting you actually. i recently did a trip in JT where we struggled each morning to get coffee going for a group of 6 adults. Mornings were around 15-20f and the propane stoves we had would light up fine and then just die down to barely a sputtering flame after a...

memory lane. thanks for sharing.

i dont know how you found this. I was wondering what the story was behind all those flowers on the trail. would be nice if somebody returned within a few days to clean those up. or maybe they did, i dont know.

You must be having a friggin blast. looks great out there. get some!

my guess is the baldy notch trail will be no issue at all. its all fireroad and the trails are pretty clear up there right now, i doubt it will be an issue. a more interesting but slightly harder hike would be the trail from Middle fork lytle creek up to icehouse saddle. seem to recall its like 10mi...

Yum!

Hey everyday! what's up! looks like youre having a good time discovering all the trails up there. I will be watching this thread, running that 50 miler would be fun. It's a bit of a drive so things would have to line up right. I'll tell Craig about it too.

Personally, I would never tear down something that so many people seem to enjoy. But I do wish they were never built in the first place. I know i was disappointed to see those things up there my first time up. I also dont like damming creeks for swimming, placing rocks and logs for stream crossings,...

Is it possible they didnt know they were vandalising something? Are those windshelters official structures of some kind or are they just improvised shelters made by hikers? if they are built by hikers looking for a break from the wind, then is this really vandalism? Of course, if they truly were try...

I'm hoping I'm done with mine. Ran 10 miles yesterday with no symptoms. Started in April for me when I increased my weekly mileage during training for a trip. I trained through it with many different attempts at healing it, including excersises, stretches, foam roller, massage, hot tub, etc. only no...

if mommy grimaces when baby comes home, daddy is doing something right.

awesome report Jim! From a guy who has hiked with small children, I can tell you that your pack looks quite small. Glad you had a good time.

okay lets see if i dont flake, if i do im sorry ahead of time. email me your phone, i dont have it anymore. if i dont call you by 10am then it probably means i woke up in vegas with a tiger in my room. i'll check with craig.

dang, ive been running at dawn so much i totally forgot that i could start later in the day. never thought of that. :) but i want to go early because i have to be in altadena by 4pm to get, um, tired again. if the wedding doesnt make too, um, tired then maybe we can start at like 8am. i know you don...

Craig and I wanted to do Baldy this weekend too, maybe we could join you. but Saturday is my friends wedding so I might be, um, tired Sunday.

thanks for posting, gotta get up to Etiwanda some time.

excellent.

Tomorrow, Sespe with several others, swimming and hiking around. camping at bear cyn with my daughter. Next weekend, Me and several others are going up San J (the long way) and making a 3 day loop up there, two nights. Not sure about the details but it sounds like a fun route. Another idea is Mojave...

that is just a really cool website. love all the videos. this would be a fun thing to do sometime.

almost comical the way this went down, especially with that picture. too bad for kitty though.

thanks for the TR. i posted a report a few months ago about this area as well. We started at chantry in the morning and then found ourselves trying to wack our way up from Bear canyon to Tom Sloan saddle in the dark, and it was raining too. It was, er, interesting! we turned back after much futile s...

friend of mine went up last saturday with his 8yr old daughter. No treacherous conditions were encountered.

why would the sleeping bag be outside of the tent? Why would neither of the tents be standing? why would anyone leave without their whiskey?

Hey everyday, damn good run girl! you were strong! i was real glad to see you coming up safe, it was looking like hell when i saw your lights way the hell down there. thanks for joining us on this one and be safe exploring more of the canyon!

Let's get some!

I saw one running around in the Curry Village buffet restaurant in Yosemite. Those things are rad, what a treat to see one in the wild. Madagascar-looking critters.

Hi CM. Beautiful animals. Just curious, how are our local kitties doing? Does Socal have a good healthy population thriving here? I know some would say they must be doing fine since they are spotted all over, but I was wondering if the smart folks who pay attention to actual numbers would agree with...