EISPIRATEN

Captures the moment when freezing in cold wet clothes..

Just like Bear Grylls did in the Patagonia episode after lowering himself into a moulin ..

That's because he got soaked to the core from the rain, before we even got to the trailhead ... https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/mpnet/DSC03152.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/mpnet/DSC03173.jpg https://eispiraten.c...

Nice pix AlanK!

Last weekend was probably it for clear trails this year.
Welcome Winter!

A week of this and we'll have a fine base for the winter!

Nice pix Kathy!

Beatiful clear day yesterday ..

Gorgonio had quite a bit of snow on the upper southern slopes yesterday ..

Also look at Kathy's Pix from Baldy yesterday, good view of general conditions on nothern and southern slopes ..

Nice TR ..

JMunaretto wrote: ~ 4200 ft elevation gain in 12 miles. A pretty tough hike, one of, if not the toughest in the Bay area.

How does Mount Diablo compare, it has to be the greatest vertical in the Bay Area ..

Very nice Dudley!

406 wrote:I take it black and it always is way to hot and taste burnt to me.

That's why it's been dubbed Charbucks.


Seriously, sweetened drinks make the profits!

Huge soccer ball or a very small bear ..

Very nice pix, RichardK!
Recently watched a show on the HUGE electrical storms they get there and of the doomed party in ~79 that got hit on Half-Dome.
Wild stuff. Still haven't been there yet!

Very nice Tim.
I'd like to scout this out myself and eventually do it in the winter.
Cheers!

With a pack, harness and roped in, I dunno how I'd fit a DSLR into my gear. Every ounce becomes crucial .. Did you sleep at the Clever and then summit or did you go up from Muir? Camped at Muir for two days and started for the summit at midnight. Good thing we didn't move up to camp at the Flats as ...

Negative, those last two pix are from the Rainier climbing website with updated conditions. This was my 3-person rope-team at the end of June: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/Rainier%20june%202008/DSC09870.jpg These are above the Cleaver en route ...

Nice Everest Panorama on the Astronomy Page : https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/Rainier%20june%202008/everest_mackenzie.jpg Hires What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll rig...

Very awesome Taco & 135driver!
We could use some good winter recon help in the near future!

Nice TR lilbitmo! :D https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2822952430_2257c22998.jpg Cowlitz Glacier – If you look really close you can see the moved the trial leading from Camp Muir to Disappointment Clever from just above this to much higher above this Crevasse. The C...

TacoDelRio wrote:The lower cave is behind the snow with that stick. You can see the entrance just barely.

Yeah, that duck almost got ya there!

Nice pix, looking forward to winter climbing there ..

Nice! See any Sheep?

FIGHT ON wrote:

TacoDelRio wrote:

FIGHT ON wrote:HEY! ONLY ONE ROPE!?

?

the guy that died was only using one rope.

So using twin ropes prevents deaths?


Check this out: Climbing Ropes Explained

And what guy are you writing about?
Btw, hikers are also known to mortally succumb to the perils on our trails ..

Nice pix! :) A couple more, from that other angle .. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/DSC00422.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/DSC00430.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/...

HikeUp wrote:Is it possible, when returning from Etiwanda, to contour around the north side of Cucamonga to avoid some elevation gain? My guess is it is probably not worth the effort.

Direct is better. We tried going around north last year.
Huge detour, turned around after gaining even more elevation ..

I want to climb Etiwanda next time I am on Cucamonga but I am not sure how to get there and whether it is marked. There is a trail, but not well traveled and difficult to find most of the time. Like Jim wrote, follow the ridge to Etiwanda. Try not to get too close to the edge .. :wink: https://eisp...

Don't know if you've read the TR on this one ...

Great video simonov!



Some cool stuff on that site, check out the 29th (and 13th, 9th, 5th etc.)

The thing about magnitude is that it isn't representative of total energy released respecive to periods of vibration (duration), amplification (ridge shattering, liquifaction etc.) and the projection of various waveforms through heterogeneous soils (localized schists and basin fractures). Still, it ...

I'm leaving in three weeks to go to Camp Muir on Mount Rainier and would like to know if anyone has been up there this summer? Yeah, though you seem to be going late season. It's hot now and things are really opening up. Two, what should I expect? Lots of sun, heat and slushy snow. The glaciers are...

AW wrote:something near Cajon/Devore. There is all those mountains there and canyons, it would be easy to name the hike..."The Big One"...

It would be, given that it's right on the San Andreas fault.
One day it's gonna swallow the I-15 right along the Wrightwood exit.

Simonov's gonna have to go to Cucamonga again and report on the trail condition.