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Just be careful -- wasn't Acme the company that Wile E Coyote used for most of his purchases?

I have never been on a Sierra Club or ODC hike, but I have encountered quite a few of both and believe that they both do great things. I have organized, and otherwise participated in, some informal group hikes using message boards like this one. I think that it is important that, at the outset, ever...

I like that loop too. I am also having trouble recalling any 1000' chutes, but I have never done that route in winter, when such things tend to stir up one's self-preservation instinct. Besides, it doesn't take a 1000' fall in an icy chute to kill a person. It must have been pretty high up on the as...

It appears that this was an ODC hike: The hike: http://www.outdoorsclub.org/Pasttrip/Pa ... eek&area=1 The ongoing dicussion: http://www.outdoorsclub.org/forum/displ ... Position=1 Very sad, we all must remember to stay safe! Sad but illuminating discussion -- thanks for posting the link. Does ...

Jim -- my son came across that route when running in Haines Canyon. He talked it up, so he and I did Lukens that wat one day after a storm a few years ago. We hit snow at about 4500', then it started raining. We came down Haines Canyon pretty well soaked. Nice outing overall, though. 8)

I got back form a trip last week and had to stick near home. (Given some of the events of the weekend in the mountains, that may have been a good thing.) Yesterday, I did manage to do about half of the loop reported in this thread -- up the Viper Trail and down Whiting Woods Fire Road. Except for a ...

Bob Rockwell just posted on the San J board that Ellen was found and is ok. She spent 2 nights in the San J summit hut.

Good goin' guys! I just got back form out of town and was stuck near home, but you looked lie you were taking full advantage of the pleasant weather.

I certainly agree that a real avalanche report would be of great interest. I think we'd all like to learn from tragic events like these and more detailed information would really help. Also, to be fair, I looked at a broader range of media coverage and have to agree that a lot of it was pretty bad. ...

In reading the news coverage, mostly in the LA Times, I did not get the impression that the victims of the avalanches (plural) were doing anything "insanely risky." Out of bounds skiing was mentioned, of course, but so was the fact that the victims were very experienced. I make no claim to...

This story was in today's LA Times, complete with one of Matt Dickie's pictures.

This was the lead story on the front page of the LA Times today.

Anyone making plans for enjoying the large quantities of fresh snow in the near future should keep in mind the liklihood of avalanches.

Here is a story about a serious one at Mountain High (Wrightwood area) -- 3 people rescued, 1 missing. More here.

406 wrote:Can anyone in the LA area see the snow level elevation? Must be around 3000, from the reports about the freeways.

I am in the northwest corner of Pasadena and am looking out at snow down to somewhere in the 2000-2500' range.

It could be a lot worse! Imagine being a major POTUS candidate and saying in public that you heard a speech by the German President Vladimir Putin. It happened just yesterday. (I won't name the candidate since this is not a political board -- it was presumably just an embarrassing slip anyway.)

There are many ways to one up on historical lore. Movies like Animal House are of immense value in that department. "Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now! Cause when the going gets tough....

That was quite a saga.

A 5 hour hike up Baldy under those conditions is moving!

BTW, and completely unrelated, here's a fun video I just found: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6xozV-E9CUw "Guys will be guys." :lol: When I was a kid, we used to love anything connected with fire, explosions, or projectiles. We drew the line at human subjects, though. What cowards we were...

Thanks for posting Alan (I thought I had heard you worked there, but I wasn't sure). Big pointy teeth too, I imagine. I imagine the same thing, although I don't believe that anyone checked. With all of the deer that roam around the Lab, I would think that the local cats are well-fed and don't see m...

Hikin_Jim wrote:I've read that a lot of mtn lion sightings are a case of mis-identification. No doubt on this one, though.

It's true -- some people are prone to exaggeration. We wouldn't pull your chain that way, though!

I am at JPL. Matt Dickie in our lab sent around 3 pictures of the lion. He saw it at 8:55 AM today as he was walking over the bridge that leads from the East Lot to the lab. It was in the arroyo under the bridge. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/alank.smugmug.com/photos/244114037-L.jpg FWIW, M...

Rte. 39 is passable on bicycle and on foot. I know prople who have ridden it. In 2005, my son and I did Mt. Islip from Islip Saddle during the winter. He talked me into bushwacking down to Rte. 39. We then walked about 2 miles on the road back to the saddle. I mention that episode because we saw a g...

Yeah, I'm not betting on it, just hoping. Route 39 would be nice as well, but that' hasn't been touched much since what, 1968? Rte. 39 went out in the winter of 1969, which was a messy one. I was living in Azusa at the time and, in addition to what was going on in the Crystal Lake area, and there w...

One would be hard-pressed to follow the precise Ski Hut Trail above the Hut right now, but there are many tracks in the snow. Some go through the woods near the trail and some go up the open part of the Bowl. Like Jim, I owuld urge caution about going alone. However, assuming decent snow conditions ...

Fritz taking a picture of me taking a picture of Fritz taking a picture of me taking a picture of Fritz taking a picture of me taking a picture of Fritz taking a picture of me taking a picture of Fritz taking a picture of me taking a picture of Fritz. You guys are good -- you pulled that off withou...

I went up Mt. Baldy via the Ski Hut trail today. I didn't get started until nearly 10, and there were quite a few people on the trail, not to mention a huge number of cars at Manker Flat. This suggested that the hardest part of the trip would be the drive down the hill in the afternoon. That turned ...

I can recall one time a few years ago when they were making everyone put on chains at the ranger station at the intersection of Rte. 2 and the Angeles Forest Highway. But conditions can't be anywhere near that bad now. The snow stopped last Sunday!

Happy New Year, Travis -- and everyone else on the board! :D It's great to see people showing their small kids the beauty of the mountains. I followed my 18 year old son up the Skyline Trail on San Jacinto on Sunday and it's quite easy to remember carrying him up mountains on my back not so long ago...