EISPIRATEN

Mt. McKinley, ca
Elevation: 4,926 ft
Sierra Club Lower Peaks Section (LPS) List
34° 20' 22'' N; 118° 15' 53'' W
http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=13488

my best photos of the SG range, feel free to use any of them Baden Powell summit https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1415664/1.JPG Blue Ridge views https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1415665/2.JPG https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery...

Has anyone here done the Palisade traverse recently (T-bolt - Sill)? Ive studied the route but still need to clear up some things. Im planning to free-solo the traverse sometime next year (maybe a cheater's rope on T-bolt summit block and milk bottle). From the top of T-bolt to starlight, there's a ...

Distance (round trip, including routefinding mistakes): 50.2 miles Elevation Gain/loss (round trip, including routefinding mistakes): 13,000 ft Time (including sleeping): 1 day 19 hrs Most difficult climbing: short class 3 sections Types of terrain: nice trail most of the way, bouldering, scree and ...

A nice climb to start the season! On Saturday we hiked in and climbed both Merriam Peak (13103 ft) and Royce Peak (13253 ft), then camping at a small lake below both peaks. On Sunday we did the easy hike out. morning alpenglow from the parking lot at Pine Creek Trailhead https://eispiraten.com/image...

Tommey and I did our first Sierra hike of the season. We were surprised at how little snow there was. We were planning to do Ritter and Banner Peak, but ran out of time because the road to Agnew Meadows was closed due to fallen trees. We had to walk an extra 8 miles up and down along that nasty pave...

Ive heard a lot about the peaks on the ridge between Baden Powell and Islip and decided to check them out all in a day. Stats mileage: ~22 elevation gain: ~7,300 ft I started from Vincent gap at a little after 9am and took the trail headed towards the summit of Baden Powell https://eispiraten.com/im...

Video of the climb: https://www.youtube.com/embed/43MLGqrc0zI Indianhead is a towering jagged face located a few miles west of Borrego Springs. Its rarely climbed. The signatures in the summit register indicated that no one had been up there for a month! We started the climb a little after 9am and s...

a fun dayhike, scrambling up a ridge in the Anza borrego desert. We reached 2 benchmarks and climbed up Peak 5386 (aka. San Ysidro East Peak or Doghead Peak). At the start of the hike. The lower hill near the left side of the pic known as "Ode BM" was our first destination. https://eispira...

The plan is to walk about a quarter mile from the cars to the start of the ridge and follow the ridge to the summit

Cleveland National Forest has completely ruined Cedar Creek Falls. It used to be one of San Diego's local secret hiking attractions. The very existence was known by a very small group of hikers, including me, who would come out on weekends to enjoy the waterfall. It was a relaxing place to get away ...

Location: We will be starting from South Fork Trailhead, but meet up at Mill Creek ranger station first The initial planned route up the mountain was the Vivian Creek Route, which I have done several times. Since that trailhead will be closed, the approach will be South Fork. I have never done south...

a nice day hiking in a very remote area with off trail class 3 scrambling, total distance: ~15 mi round trip https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1192676/1.JPG https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1192677/2.JPG https://eispiraten.com/images-archi...

how much snow (in inches) was there at the summit? do you recommend snowshoes? Im going there friday

yep. more snow the better! snowed 6 inches last night on top of the 6 inches that was already there, another 2-3 inches predicted for thanksgiving day which makes for about 15 inches on the ground for the traverse

Is anyone interested in snow camping on top of baldy friday-sat after thanksgiving? saturday will involve a traverse to Iron Mountain

C2C is my favorite route in Socal, gaining 11,000ft in about 16 miles (one way). This is my 4th time climbing it and would be my first time climbing it with a group. 3 years ago I soloed this route at 12 years old in 9 hours to the peak. Its been a tradition to do it at least once a year ever since....

8/26/11 On Friday, Me and 5 other hikers went up to Idyllwild to start our 2 and a half day backpacking trip. On the way there we drove through a thunderstorm and got pelted with rain. At a stop at a ranger station on the way there, two dogs that were scared of the thunder ran into the truck when t...

Im wondering whats the fastest time ever done for an ascent of the FULL C2C (from the museum to the peak). There have been some rumors that people have done the portion from the museum to the tram in less than 3 hrs.

Ill go if I can get a carpool from san diego

hiked it just last month: https://eispiraten.com/viewtopic.php?t=4073

I hiked part of shasta with this awesome group who will guide you up for free: http://www.meetup.com/Sierra-Mountaineering-Group/

Last month I attempted to climb Mt. Shasta 5 times in 3 days, but only ended up climbing it 2 times in 1.5 days because of bad weather. This trip report took so long to post because the flash drive containing half of the photos fell under a car seat and it took me a month to find it. Trip Report: 7/...

Cedar Creek Falls in San Diego is one of the best in California!

a video I took a few months ago:

I will attempt to break the record for most ascents up this mountain in 3 days. The hiking will be between 6/25/11 and 6/27/11. I will be taking the avalanche gulch route on the southwest side of the mountain. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/1086285/1.JPG ____________...

this has been cancelled

did a hike up Vivian creek on Mt. San Gorgonio starting at 8:30 in the morning and reaching the summit at 12:30pm. I thought I wasnt going to make it at first and sprinted up the trail. Then I found myself at halfway camp after less than 50 minutes. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myf...