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Rick M wrote:I was taking their rubber tired subway "trains" around the city. They were packing them in like sardines. On one, the pick of my ice axe got stuck on a ladies purse while I was trying to get out the door

You mean those Green VW Buses that pass for Mass Transit?

Nice TR simonov!
I hope your nose is feeling better ..

Looks like you went with the Argon 110.

Yeah right! Nothing on it but some rotten snow. Next winter... if a "pure" approach is in order, it'll be ludicrous. Probably gonna do something a tad easier to get to it. But yeah, SEF. :twisted: something like this perhaps? 8) https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/album...

Nice pix Mike P!
Looks beautiful up there ..

I had my eye on an Osprey last year but ended up buying a Gregory instead (after fitting the two packs in the store with weight/bulk stuffers). The Gregory fit my tall frame better with weight bearing nicely on my hips. The Osprey has a very comfortable and customizable belt, but was too top shifty ...

Nice TR JM!
2.5 hours, very good time indeed.

In all my years of hiking, I have never, ever seen a ranger in any SoCal trail. Did they say why they were there? Were they checking permits? They never asked for permits and said they were checking the 'conditions of the trails' and nodded us on into neve penetente/bushwacking misery down below Ma...

Looking for the other +11.5K peaks in SoCal ... 8) https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/San%20Gorgonio%2020080503/DSC08242.jpg Suncups, then worse .. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/San%20Gorgonio%20...

It would be nice to have an igloo or two at one's disposal at, say, Dry Lake. Maybe use the forums to sign up to use them. Speaking of Dry Lake, again, ... Kathy Wing got a pic of one there at the end of - March (time flies): https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/kathywing.smugmug.com/photos/26955...

Déjà vu, the pictures you have look just like a scene 20 years ago below Dry Lake. Dry Lake it was, last December 9th. Happy Birthday Rick; Cheers! :D Question on the snowstorm topic - does an igloo vent exhaust gas at the peak? What about cooking from the vestibule of a tent in a storm, that's wha...

Have you taken your cartridge stove out in serious winter conditions? https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/current/DSC05555.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/current/DSC05556.jpg 15F at 9,000+ fee...

Nice TR Dudley Heinsbergen!
Our own Cucamonga Wilderness Glacier too ...
Niiice
8)

I remember the arclite fireball while Bert was cleaning/priming or whatever he was doing to his MSR white-gas stove on top of Harwood, December 15th.
Momentary flashburn. Almost melted his vestibule, hehe ..

Not particularly impressed with white-gas stoves for applications is SoCal.

Fixed that for you:

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Nice pix, calicokid.

Rick M wrote: ps I did have a pack of raccoons attack me once while in my bivy.

got any pix of that Rick?

Thanks for posting the link Terry.
Great TR, makes me want to roadtrip down to California Sur again ..

Water good.
Nice TR JMunaretto!

Alright! Dawson Peak 'Give a Dog a Bone' route on Saturday, April 12th: Heading up highway 3N06B .. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/current/80412%20Dawson%20Peak/DSC07607.jpg The approach .. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/a...

Where's your loose leaf Li-shan oolong? Traitor. That's what I do, Osmanthus Silver Needle or Snow Sprout buds right into my jetboil at 160-180F. Though the bags do look a lot like big fat sacks of ganja. 8) https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i12/albums/a213/greg2129/Tea/2.jpg Almon...

DUDE I LOVE IRON MOUNTAIN. WANNA SEE SOMETHING NUTS? LOOK UP RICK KENT. AND SEE HIS TRIP ON HEATON FLATS TO IRON MOUNTAIN TO MANKER FLATS AND BACK IN ONE DAY. SUPER MAN!!!!! Indeed, we're quite aware of Mr. Kent's feat(s). Imagine, all that on a pint of water and three Brazil nuts for emergency rat...

Classic!
Well done.

Wohoo!
I'm still waiting for a 3 day arctic downpour before this season ends.
Right now it's just predicting Showers for next week.

Nice, looks like you stepped it up with a helmet, Mitch.
Good idea.

The backbone from the notch to the summit -is barely a spur of a spine in comparison to the spine going up Pine Mountain from Wrightwood enroute to Baldy. On the Harwood portion of the BP one would have difficulty falling in summer conditions. Granted, but I thought that route was called the 'North...

dhstein31 wrote:Harwood is a peak ---on the fake backbone from Baldy Notch.

I always understood the Devil's Backbone to be the entire route from San Antonio via Harwood to the Notch.
If anything, Harwood's got the back to the backbone.
Nothing fake about it ..

https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/img/albums/v101/He219/photobucket/current/winter20training-078.jpg Hires CHUGACH MOUNTAINS, Alaska -- A 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) mountaineer climbs out of Worthington Glacier during the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) Master...

Nice TR guys! :D simonov, remember that story I told you about my friends on that same hairpin-curve section 10 years ago on black ice waving off and trying to stop people but only getting blank stares as car after car accumilated in a huge pile-up? Your post makes me think of it .. Nice Imperial fl...

nice shot!

Dudley Heinsbergen wrote:this is me jumping the lower falls that same day...

Nice pose there Dudley!

Some pictures of North DBB: http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj26 ... north3.jpg http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj26 ... north1.jpg That's like a bunnyhop in-a-pea patch for TDR, pilot. He likes those ball-buster climbs more like that NE face of Harwood .. see: http://www.summitpost.org/trip-...