EISPIRATEN

I had in mind specific days you experienced, and ones that you could link to their respective TRs ideally :)

Here's the TR for Rattlesnake... https://eispiraten.com/viewtopic.php?t=1014

Beta is useless now because it was 17 years and several fires ago.

I started early and was passed by Tim (a ...

My three favorite hikes (as adventurous as I usually get) in the Gabes are:

a) Will Thrall (900' gain in last half mile+)
b) Rattlesnake
c) Mostly cross-country ridge walk from Three Points to Vista Campground via Waterman and Kratka Ridge.

Not difficult but real nice hikes through the mountains ...

Thanks for the trail condition info! A few members of this forum have been helping out with the trail work.

How much of the work you guys put in has been undone?

Probably 90% has been undone. Two locations where we re-routed the trail have mostly survived (i.e. weren't covered by slough). Most every thing else has been buried by slough. The rain so far wasn't enough to do any harm, but tomorrow's rain ...

It's a blank slate. I will lobby for permission to build a righteous trail. I know people who know how to do it right!

Sean wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:22 pm Well, that sucks. Is water coming out of the spring above the cascade?

That pipe is buried, but there was a weak flow over the cascade. So not sure!

Post-Eaton Fire pictures, taken Feb. 11, 2025...one month and 4 days after it burned Bailey Canyon.


This used to be a bridge...
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First before/after of trail below cascade...
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This is/was/will be again the cascade ...

Uncle Rico wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:27 am...I felt quite fortunate to still be alive, but I had cheated certain death by hiking the only place in Southern California that is safe from the ravages of wind and fire.

Sell your soul to the devil did ya?

Let's build a wall around the ANF

Yikes. I was here the last time the EC Nature Center burned down too - 1993.

We evacuated last night from Upper Hastings Ranch (NE Pasadena). Back at house now. Can still see fire to the east. This neighborhood lost a few houses reportedly.

The forest service has official trail designations but they are just alpha-numeric gibberish. For example, Three points to Twin/Waterman saddle is 10W04...this link shows the forest service map with road and trail designations indicated...

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.34048,-117.94952&z=15&b ...

David R wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:46 am The hike took just under 6 hours.

Including the 2 hours it took to take pictures?

AW~ wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:16 am Btw, where do you park for this Alder Creek trail, cause its a lot of no stopping signs.

Those signs stop about 1/4 mile east of Alder Creek crossing, a big dirt turnout on the north sife of the road.

Also a picture looking up Lynx Gulch from the ridge to the east...

Iron #3 in center, Rabbit on right in the distance...

I have been about 450' above the mine's location on Iron Mountain's north ridge - your last picture - which is an easy stroll from Monte Cristo campground. I posted a question about the Dora May claim marker I saw on this ridge and @Terry Morse prompted me to find a few links. No worky any more so ...

blah blah blah...where's my wine, bitch?

I can't read (or write). Instead, can it draw little pictographs that summarize the TR? Also, have it pour me a glass of Pinot Noir.

Why separate? What did I miss?

No disrespect intended.

"...trail Karens..."

Removed above ground part of fig tree stump and groomed a bit.



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edit to add a story: early last month I went up to remove the stump (level it off at ground level), but a young man came along and asked if I was going to transplant the fig tree. I said no, just going to level it off ...

What a hike! I found your swag up at rabbit peak a while back when exploring the area myself.

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Cool to see that a group like this exists!

I also ran into the owner of the Monte Cristo Mine who gave me a nice welcome and offered me a ride to the ...

JeffH wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:47 pm What are you testing?

I think he failed

This is a link to an old post all about Cole BM.

https://eispiraten.com/viewtopic.php?t=1139#p11511

Fun hike despite having no point.

I did the Emmas the same way. The Karen on Old Emma looks like it has been knocked about a bit!

Circa 2009...

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The BM on Cole is (was in 2009) attached to a rock that has been kicked around the summit so god knows where it is now. I found the ...

JeffH wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:42 pm I have not. Curious about what you were searching for that caused the YT algorithm to think you would also enjoy it.

Ha!

I was tipped off to this movie by a bartender at a gin distillery in Savannah. I think you should ask him as to why he recommended it. lol

I told Sean that he'd like it!

Hundreds of Beavers

In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness. Can he go from Zero to Hero, become North America's greatest fur trapper, and defeat hundreds of beavers?

My memory of the route is that there were a shit ton of arrows, dots and other marks of various colors that went in all sorts of different directions. We just followed boot prints and logic. I got nervous at only one location where we could see straight down the north face (1000+ feet). A mistake or ...

Nice peak bagging trip. Cool pics.

I walked up to Monrovia from Monrovia Cyn Park 16+ years ago...

The HPS site doesn't have an official route description for the west ridge. The only description is in the TR that you have seen.

It describes bypassing the ephemeral waterfall on the right and ascend the subsidiary ridge up to the main ridge. I stayed in the drainage and ended up on the wrong ...