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I'd say it's still too early. You'd need an ice axe and crampons and the experience and training to use them.

Some people, or so I've heard, call the Devil's Backbone portion of the Notch to Baldy hike the "fake" DB because of the "other Devil's Backbone" that one goes over when one comes in via Pine and Dawson. Apparently some feel that the backbone on the northern approach is the real ...

Anne Marie Brown rating of 9 Sturtevant Falls Trail Canyon Falls Anne Marie Brown rating of 8 Switzer falls Fish Canyon Falls Anne Marie Brown rating of 7 San Antonio Falls Eaton Canyon Sturtevant offers the best fit for your criteria IMO, however it is year round, whereas Trail Canyon tapers out b...

Wow. Pretty serious. Plastic boots, crampons, ice axe, pickets, both snowshoes and skiis -- the whole nine yards. That's pretty out there for the Army which usually lags 10 - 20 years behind civilian climbing technology. The thing that surprises me is that they appear to be wearing their regular cot...

Hey, Taco, thought you might find this post interesting. I think may you already know most of the areas he's talking about, but ...
http://www.palm-springs-photography.com ... .php?t=734

TacoDelRio wrote:Allah's Saddle.

"Allah's Saddle?" Oh, have you ridden Allah lately? And how do your Muslim friends feel about that?

I enjoy referring to it as the "Saddle I'll not like to visit again, but will likely return to if going down that way from a different way up Iron Mountain." Shortened to... SINLTVABWLRTI ah whatever. Maybe we could shorten SINLTVABWLRTI to just SIN. The saddle of sin, I kind of like that...

This falls has a really nice pool: http://www.dankat.com/advents/dvloop.htm Itsa purty dern good swimin' hole if ya goes in da summah time. I did it as an out and back instead of a loop since I didn't have a shuttle available. It's a work out. Plan on a full day and getting your feet wet. Getting to...

I enjoy referring to it as the "Saddle I'll not like to visit again, but will likely return to if going down that way from a different way up Iron Mountain." Shortened to... SINLTVABWLRTI ah whatever. Maybe we could shorten SINLTVABWLRTI to just SIN. The saddle of sin, I kind of like that...

Um, well, I was hoping I could have Sundays off...

Yes, but wouldn't you be an hour ahead in a week or two thereafter when we hit the old DST cutover date?

I guess you could just adjust it again. LOL. Pretty high tech. We've got this vast, sophisticated internet out there, but we're still setting the time by hand.

Yeah, pretty mind-boggling. Personally, I think automotive identification is far easier than flower identification. :D The problem with common names for plants is that they vary from guide to guide and region to region. If you were to travel about the country, you'd probably find at least three oaks...

How come the forum is still on Standard Time? Is the software using the old dates for DST? Will it correct itself in a week or so?

Dude! Glad you're still with us.

I was in the Chantry Flats/Big Santa Anita Canyon area today. The snow level was low, maybe 3000 to 3500' but minimal accumulation. Saw some really cool rainbows. Was definitely cold. Probably topped out in the 40's. Supposed to be down to mid 30's at 2500' overnight.

Photo 1: Don't know Photo 2: Indian Paintbrush Photo 3: Don't Know Photo 4: Lewis' Monkeyflower Photo 5: Don't know Photo 6: Don't know Photo 7: Wild cucumber Photo 8: Lupine Photo 9: Ceonothis (sp?) Photo 10: Don't know Photo 11: That is a "rust" and you are correct it is a parasite.

Chapman is an older name for Timber. There's a metal gizmo embedded in a tree there that says "Chapman" on it. Chapman was a person who was pretty well known in that are if I remember correctly. The upper trail in Icehouse Canyon, the one that goes through Cedar Glen camp is called the &qu...

Allah Ahkbar!

I wonder if it hardened up after they started crossing it? They said "experienced hikers," but I'm not sure that they're super experienced if they want to cross ice in steep terrain w/o gear. :shock: That kind of sucks that SAR told 'em to turn back and they didn't and had to call SAR back...

I'm not even going there.

I was up there a month or so ago with a Boy Scout troop. It's not that bad this time of the year, although I think it would be baking in the summer. There's a little creek flowing down the middle.

HikeUp wrote:How do these threads keep getting off topic?

Hey, you got your topic; I got mine.

AlanK wrote:Jim - where did you take that picture? Did you also meet them last weekend hiking up the Baldy Bowl? We didn't notice you -- no offense.

That's OK, Alan, I didn't recognize you (in drag) either.

WHAT IT IS?! https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i6/albums/y222/TacoDelRio/20080311%20Mini%20Burro%20and%20Bear%20Creek/DSCF0156.jpg The blade of grass thing. Lots of them on the small peak south of Burro Peak. Usually just one blade of shiny grass, and that's it. Oh, OK, I think I k...

HikeUp wrote:The whole enchilada.

It's above Hoot Owl Flats, so maybe Hooter Hill?

Well, it is about the right shape ...

I say this strictly as a devotee of geometry.

NOTE: If anyone knows the name of this peak, or has ideas for a name for it, go for it. Might as well give it a name instead of the boring and depressing "Pt 3100" or whatever it may be. Or "Mini-Burro", which also kinda sucks. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/...

I support your right to arm bears (or to bare arms for that matter).

If it's got a sharp point on it, which in this photo it appears as though it does, it's Our Lord's Candle yucca yucca whipleii (Latin spelling approximate)

Sierra Madre is a great team. One of the guys here at my office is on SM SAR. You have to live within a 20 min. drive of the station in order to be a member.

Terry Morse wrote:He said there is a new forest suprvisor in this area and that some long neglected maintenace is going to happen.

WOO HOO!