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Just kidding. Which route was the ascent and which was the descent? What gear was required...snowshoes? crampons? etc.

Awesome.

If you rent out your PLB, there might be a potential for confusion as far as who it is they are looking for! How do they deal with the I.D. information?

... but there is worse(such as Horse Flats trail @Eaton)... LOL... the horse trail is a necessary evil since the 2005 land slide covered the toll road. Short and steep, but it gets you to where you're going...up! A bitch on the knees on the way down though. The Mt. Wilson Trail out of Sierra Madre ...

Did you find any remnants of the plane crash? I guess it would have been hard to with the snow, Yeah, I didn't feel like going down into snow (rapidly melting snow) covered brush looking for snow covered airplane parts. I was in shorts and my boots were collecting enough snow as it was :oops: . I d...

What route did you take? I started at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center (~980') and took the Mt. Wilson Toll Road up to where the ridge from Bailey Canyon/Hasting's Peak intersects the road. Literally about 50' further up the road there is a steep but very short use trail on the left that goes up to t...

After talking about Mt. Yale last October, I finally made it. Took advantage of the break between storms to head up to Mt. Yale (4760'). First snow was at about 3800' on the north slopes and shaded areas. Above 4500' there was decent accumulation. I was one of the first few to leave tracks in the sn...

Can anyone in the LA area see the snow level elevation? Must be around 3000, from the reports about the freeways. Here is a picture taken from the train platform at the Gold Line's Allen station in Pasadena on Friday afternoon (2008-01-25) around 4pm. Snow level is at about 4500' depending on which...

Following comment seen on the Mt. Wilson Cam page this morning... Solar observer comment posted on January 25, 2008 at 8:24 P.S.T. Observatory weather: mixture of frozen rain and snow; fog; breezy; 31° F. At least 2 feet of snow on theground and much higher drifts. Thursday morning (4-5 am'ish) ther...

Forget it, he's rolling.

KathyW wrote:Monrovia sounds perfect for this time of year - thanks for putting the idea in my head.

Go do it!

Nice TR. What's it like to be a human voodoo doll for the buckthorn bushes?

Thanks, the mutt seems fine. Kinda funny to see a dog trying to walk as it is coming out of anesthesia! Walked right into a wall

BTW, long pants and some desert gators are good advice for these "trails".

Thanks, for the info Travis. I had seen your TR before and figured a January trip would be a bit easier as far as temperatures and bush growth than when you went in July (are you nuts! :o ). I got a very late start (dog had to go in for surgery) so all I did was a short loop hike -- went up the Bill...

Which comes as a relief to those who run in the Arroyo regularly. My better half runs in the Arroyo a lot. This past Sunday she was startled by the yelping of a pack of coyotes less than 50 feet away in the bushes - probably celebrating a kill. That along with today's lion sighting has her re-evalu...

Thanks for posting Alan (I thought I had heard you worked there, but I wasn't sure).

Big pointy teeth too, I imagine.

Friends at JPL in Pasadena have forwarded pictures to me of a mountain lion seen "below the bridge coming into the east lot around 8:55 this morning" (Wed. Jan. 16th). This is in the Arroyo Seco area of the San Gabriels. I will try to post the pictures. I certainly wouldn't want to see thi...

I wonder if they are planning on opening up the ACH as far as Dawson Saddle instead of keeping the closure at Islip Saddle. They've done all the road improvements and Dawson (if I remember correctly) is a relatively large turnout area that would make for a good parking/turn around area. Are there ex...

I am planning on hiking up to Monrovia Peak (via Sierra Club Route #1) and wondering if anyone has been up there recently and can report on conditions of the firebreak leading up from the top of Bill Cull trail to Clamshell. Anyone interested?

Zoiks. That was a fast comment! :D I don't have a camera, but will get one soon. Gives me a reason to revisit all the peaks again! This link shows Brennen's route up the west ridge. There are two class 3 sections along the ridge. They are fun and the final one up to the peak has some surprising expo...

Hiked up to Strawberry Peak from the Colby Canyon TH to Josephine Saddle and up the 3rd class west ridge, descending via the east ridge to Red Box. Took a car shuttle back to Colby. Trail is in great condition. Quite a bit of snow (6 to 8 inches in some areas) left over along the ridges but didn't p...

Going up Saturday morning from Colby Canyon TH at 8. Say hi if ya see us!

TacoDelRio wrote:Then that gets old, and you take up alcoholism, have a stroke, and die.

Preferably 5 minutes before your liver fails.

Thanks for the story/link HJ.

Taggers = poo-flinging sub-human chimps.

Just to clarify...I was joking. Why else would I hike up Hoyt Mt?

Nothing wrong with shameless peak bagging

I had to bivy in front of the Rite-Aid on Route 110 for about 5 minutes waiting for it to open. I needed supplies - Coke and a candy bar.

Yep....I climbed Jayne's Hill ! Elevation 401'. Brutal 250' climb, including 2 crossings of Route 110 in 40 degree overcast skies. No crampons or snowshoes required. A downed tree blocks the main trail from the east about 100' from the graffiti covered peak. Too cold for the local degenerates to be ...