EISPIRATEN

Burbank invasion

Now I know why I haven't seen any coyotes in a long time. I live on the north side of the Verdugos and, evidently, every coyote has moved to Beautiful Downtown Burbank.

Zé wrote:

AlanK wrote: I can see Mt. Lukens from my front doorstep.

What about Russia?

Only if Putin annexes Haines Canyon.

I can see Mt. Lukens from my front doorstep. I used to hike it a lot but got out of the habit with the Station Fire and its aftermath. For years I favored the Stone Canyon Trail, but hiking it from Deukmejian Park got more and more attractive as the trails improved.

Yesterday, I did an old ...

HikeUp wrote: Probably doing 45 minute laps on Iron trying to keep up with Eric.

I have not been able to keep up with Eric for quite a while now. But I can still keep up with his niece.

HikeUp wrote: Hi Alan!

Hello and thanks for no stabbing noises.

I have heard gunshots on several Iron Mountain hikes over the years, apparently from Coldwater Canyon or somewhere in that direction from the Iron Mountain ridge that is the most popular "trail." I grew up in Azusa, so I figured that as long as nothing was whizziing by my head it was probably just a ...

We went up the Ski Hut and down the Backbone on Monday, December 23. NOMAN668 described the Ski Hut Trail well. There are more patches of snow on the backbone but it was easily passable at 11 AM. A couple of spots could get interesting after a cold night (hard freeze)

I wonder if something precipitated the fall. I guess we'll never know.HJ
I go to Inspiration point once in a while. I guess that the fall was from the Castle Canyon Trail because it has the steepest slopes. It never seemed particularly dangerous, but there are several places where a little ...

I too have used TOPO! for years (16). I took a look at AllTrails and was not impressed. I am looking into alternatives.

so the bright-headed solution of y'all is to charge some teens $100k+ and essentially wiping out their future. Can't wait till they are out on the street committing real crimes trying to pay back that debt.

How stupid is you?
You left out part of the plan.

Then we lock 'em up at great expense ...

cougarmagic wrote: I hate the smell of it. The good news is it supposedly dies off around 5 years after a fire, as the other native veg. grows back and crowds it out.

And we're coming up on 4 years this summer.

robnokshus wrote: I think I learned this from a thread on this board but the stuff really works.

"but" = "so of course"

cougarmagic wrote:

AlanK wrote:

cougarmagic wrote: Welcome! I went to college in Ithaca.

No kiddin'? Which one?

IC. Did you go to the Cornell vet school?

I went to grad school at Cornell "a while back." Not the Vet School, though. I was into inanimate stuff in the physics building.

cougarmagic wrote: Welcome! I went to college in Ithaca.

No kiddin'? Which one?

That's the ridge, but where the word "Falls" is on your map, the route stops climbing the ridge and traverses the cliff before dropping down immediately above the first falls. They fall along the traverse, or while trying to descend the very last part.

There are a couple sections of traverse that ...

A more familiar, comforting, protective, caffeinating structure.

Shindig 300 was a great event that materialized on the WPS Message Board. There was good representation from this board. Here is my WPSMB post.
Eric and I joined a group of nearly 40 people for the first, and only Shiindig 300, the official celebration of Shin's 300th ascent of Mt. Baldy. After ...

Those shelters don't seem very important in the grand scheme of things.
Why just yesterday I was sitting in a wind shelter on top of Mount Baldy talking to a friend about the fact that this trivial subject had resulted in a long-running thread on the San Gabriel Board. Sometimes, we (and I ...

Today:

Is that before or after they eliminate the ski lifts, the lodge and associated buildings, the parking lot, the service road, and, of course, the Sierra Club Ski Hut?
Sounds good to me. :wink:
I'll take that as an "after" because carrying those large rocks down the bowl will be tiring. :)

LNT is a great ideal. Or practice. So, you are right in saying that the shelters should not have been built in the first place.

But it is not "leaving no trace" when one converts a wind shelter to an obnoxious, and decidedly unnatural, pile of rocks. It's more like "my trace is better than yours ...

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought I was going to be happy. My first impression was that someone was going to be commenting on the vandalism on the mountain of building wind shelters on the summit.

Much to my surprise... it was complaints about damaging the wind shelters that ...

HikeUp wrote: True. Pragmatism triumphs over hyperbolic handwringing about a pile of rocks. Go figure.

Although hyperbolic handwringing can keep your hands warm if you forget to pack gloves.

HikeUp wrote: And if I ever make it back up there, I'll bring a jacket so it won't matter if the wind breaks are there are not.

On a practical note, my coldest, windiest visits to the Baldy summit are always at times when the shelters are filled with snow. So the jacket does come in handy.

HikeUp wrote: In that thread you linked to Alan they are saying that the windbreaks were re-built then torn down again.

I feel sorry for the rocks.

Yes, it looks like the rocks are cannon fodder in a battle of wills.

I guess it's time to fire at Will!