EISPIRATEN

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 ...

Here's google street view at point C.

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Thinking back on my approach from 22.45, it was a loose scree and steep climb that was only getting brushier and brushier as it went up. I hadn't done any prep other than "park at 22.45", so I said screw it. Although thinking back on it, the ...

A is mm 22.45 where I started in a failed attempt.
B is mm 22.95.
C is where I think you are proposing to start from.

There is mention of mile marker 22.95 as a starting point. Matt Maxon mentions it on this forum.

I'll post some pics I took of the upper portions of the ridge (from the summit) when I get a bit more time tomorrow.

My best advice - ignore most of what I have said on this forum!

I tried once in a half-hearted manner. It didn't go.

Member @Travis (or maybe it was member @Augie ) did do it at some point in the past (prior to my "attempt"). You can likely find his (there) report or route info on summitpost (does ...

Sorry I missed it.

Devil Peak, the observatory and Mt. Mooney used to be heavily forested with no views except from parts of the road connecting the three. Which fire burned all of the trees? The station fire?

From April, 2009...

I' had a relapse of my cancer and am going under the knife this week to remove it. Hopefully it all goes well but I'll be out of commission at least for a month. See you on the other side, I hope!

I hope they get it all. Gotta give the drugs their best chance to work.

I switched from Keytruda ...