EISPIRATEN

British climbing fatality in Alps

UK Daily Mail news story

Hikin_Jim wrote:I'll have to let her know that.

Please don't mention my name.

Hikin_Jim wrote:marriage is all about compromise.

HJ, you've already made an earnest effort at compromise. You no longer air your sleeping bag, tent, ground cloth, and other hiking gear in the living room 5 days per week, and you now carry an electronic panic button "just in case."

FIGHT ON wrote:

HikeUp wrote:If I ever go hiking with you people, I'm leading!

what? then you'll miss all the fun!

When FIGHT ON says XC, he means he missed another switchback.

my car was parked outside the Visitor Center. .... up Bear Canyon Rd. .... My GPS could not receive any signals .... it didn't start recording until he dropped me off. I've ascended BCT 3 times and each time been unable to get a good jumping-off GPS fix at the Visitor's Center. My Garmin says it ac...

Thanks, HJ. So the real Meadow is the lush vegetation growing along the banks of the western-most creek branch? I'll explore uphill on that side of the trail camp the the next time I pass through.

Finally got a decent turn-out for one of my OCHBC n00b overnights to John's Meadow this last weekend. My son told me that he wanted to soak his feet in a mountain stream, so we made Johns Meadow our destination for July 19-20. Simonov's recent photos, together with a long, detailed write-up on John...

FIGHT ON wrote:Look how big the paws are.

FIGHT ON, I edited the post adding a photo showing the underside of the bobcat's paw.

So a mountain lion is brown all over and has rounded ears, while a bobcat has some stripes and pointed ears? :?: In 2002 when we were tent camping in an RV park north of Idyllwild, this critter made himself at home in our campsite. Children tip-toed for a close look; however, he did not eat any of t...

Who can identify the location and brand?

Ski lift tips

1. Remove backpack and place on ski lift seat next to you.

2. Stow hiking poles in backpack.

Other tips?

if you had to spend a night outside in our local mountains... . . somewhere up high preferably off trail .... ? A paranoid friend challenged me to pre-plan my get-away hide-out, just in case some Hollywood-style excitement should enter my life. (I must admit, while hiking I've found a lot of beauti...

Tim, artful use of screen shots.

. . . . Gangbangers who grafitti all the rocks with gang signs written in Spanish. Last month between Baldy ski lift and Manker Flat, I noticed a rock spray-painted "Welcome to Mexico." That irritated me. I've literally seen 50 vehicles parked in no-parking areas, without Adventure Passes...

Joe, great TR! Thanks for posting. Your first altitude symptom was headache, and from what I've read, that's breathing-related, therefore KathyW's suggestion of pressure breathing should help the next time you go up. (You did not report fatigue as an impairing issue, so I guess that your blood corre...

Homemade large print editions are a welcome treat for old eyes.

This discussion forum is approaching the milestone of 5,000 posts!

135driver wrote:Did you, or do you fly them?

In 1970s I enjoyed being a passenger on a few T-34 orientation flights over Padre Island, Texas.

T-34s are still flying?

135driver wrote: You would sit in the back of the aircraft, and be able to open the canopy in flight

Good to be able to open the canopy. I remember a couple of small but smokey electrical fires . . .

Speaking of logging, if you know a teacher, ask him or her to consider attending Forestry Institute for Teachers (FIT) , if not this summer, then maybe next year. Duration is 1 week at one of several Northern California locations. My wife attended in 2007, and she reported that presentations were ba...

Peter Hillary Summits Denali, Completes Seven Summits, Dedicates Denali To Sir Hillary Posted by Jason A. Hendricks on June 20, 2008 | EverestNews is reporting that Sir Edmund Hillary’s son, Peter Hillary, has just finished completing his bid for the highest summit on each of the seven continents. ...

My wife wants me to stay in touch with her at all times . . . cell phones and pagers don't work in the mountains. So far, my wife has no interest in getting a Ham radio license and monitoring a home base station while I'm hiking. In the meantime, I added a small Ham transceiver to my list of essent...

TacoDelRio wrote:I've been to the summit of Iron Mountain 75 times. (True)

I guess we all have our default hikes. Why? What's yours? Groundhog Day, all over again.

In the romantic comedy movie "Twenty-seven Dresses" (now on DVD), a woman falls secretly in love with her boss who is not aware of her affection. In his first scene, the boss reports that he just returned from hiking Whitney where he set a new personal record for fastest round-trip (10 hou...

I hate it when someone takes my favorite parking spot. :) Head count at Baldy Summit @ 11:30 a.m. = approx 30 (It was difficult to count heads because most people were taking shelter from the brisk S-SW wind.) On my way down DBB trail, when I reached the saddle between Baldy & Harwood, I turned ...

Heading east from Mt Harwood summit, is there a trace trail that intersects with DBB Trail? I didn't see one -- maybe I didn't look in the right place. As I stepped carefully down off the ridge to DBB Trail, I was concerned that I might cause a small rock slide that would take out an innocent hiker ...

On 5-31-2008, after Baldy, I tagged Mt Harwood, then went sightseeing along the ridge to the east of Mt Harwood. That left me looking for the secret stairway down to Devil's Backbone Trail. Is there one?

On Saturday, 5-31-2008, there were LOTS of cars parked at Manker Flats -- the most I've seen. Maybe 100 cars?

Great close-up photos of the snow bug!

The software being the Mapsource stuff? Is this just for the computer, or also to access maps on the GPS unit? Sorry for being dense, I just have never used a GPS before. But I do think I can 'acquire' that sort of software pretty easily. It's good to ask a lot of questions about the software. When...