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The ANF should become a museum piece, where you can observe it from a far and tell museum-goers that back in the day people used to actually hike it.

So you're saying that there will be no crowds, if you hike this weekend?

Cool, remote area!

Your elevations maybe don't match up with the USGS scan on Caltopo(?) but I see the area you were in based on other place names you mention.


The person who put it up on Peakbagger used his GPS for the measurements, you can see the location of the peaks there.


The hike ...

Uncle Rico wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:32 am I know David's New Years resolution for 2025.

Ha, ha!

Next trip report will just be pictures, that'll show'em.

I have been interested in the old fire road that heads north from the saddle that takes you up to Warm Springs Mountain for a while. I just haven't had a reason to go up there, looking at Peakbagger I noticed three peaks that were identified and decided to give it a shot. It was going to be a bit of ...

The roads are open since the USFS does not manage those but the closure for hiking is in effect until 12/31/25.

Went up yesterday and yowzer, the recent trail work done is awesome. The trail is back to being in the shape it was 20 years ago. It may actually be better then before in certain areas. There were a couple of problem areas on the trail notably when you first left Stone, when you entered the canyon ...

They’re closed because they “provide access to other trails that did burn,” she wrote.

So based on that logic, everything needs to be closed when a fire occurs as all the trails eventually connect. I would say PCT down in SoCal should close after a fire wrecks the trail up in Oregon. It is all ...

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Here was my attempt and the OP back in 2016.

The Moon did get moved, it was that very obvious round bump you climb steeply that is shaped like the moon. Oh well more revisionist history.

Hadn't seen this write-up, it was easier going up there now without everything flowering. Now I can feel comfortable checking out the compound, when I go up there next time, thanks. The topos show a trail climbing from just before the compound through an obvious canyon which was the one I started up.

My fitness is moving along quite nicely so I decided on some possible xcountry exploration. I had noticed that there were a bunch of old trails that had existed between the 5 and Lake Piru. This area is pocketed with private properties in the middle of the National Forest but the trails definitely ...

This is a standard off-trail, HPS Sierra Club Josephine route. They have write-ups on their site with specific directions, how to do this one.

I' had a relapse of my cancer and am going under the knife this week to remove it. Hopefully it all goes well but I'll be out of commission at least for a month. See you on the other side, I hope!

The last couple of miles to Joe Elliot are in poor shape, there is a fellow who has been trying to get a group up there to fix it but it sounds all doable and if worse comes to worse you can xcountry much of it. Your exit strategy is more problematic, that old fire road is over grown and I don't ...

One of my new things is to decide to do a hike and have multiple options as far as what I am going to do during the hike. The original thought of this hike was to get to a viewpoint of the Cuyama Badlands. Much of this has been closed by the Forest Service since they don't want to fix the road that ...

I believe it is embers from the Bridge fire that got started up on Saturday with the Sana Ana winds.

Talk about coincidence I did Hawks a second time Sunday morning. There is a sign-in can still up there, not too many people go there, even though it is right off the fire road. Would have been funny if you made it and saw my sign-in.


Dang it, missed you. You must have gone early. How is the ...

Talk about coincidence I did Hawks a second time Sunday morning. There is a sign-in can still up there, not too many people go there, even though it is right off the fire road. Would have been funny if you made it and saw my sign-in.

There is an upper and lower trail above the falls, it sounds like you took the upper until it merged with the lower and came back along that one which follows the creek and goes right above the falls. Will have to get up there soon and try the firebreak to Manzanita Ridge and Mt. Wilson. It looks ...

No GPX but peakbagger.com has some mapping of these peaks and routes.

I need to post photos once in a while so I don't have to get the inevitable question.

Area near Hillyer definitely more brushier but manageable. Waterman area is all parklike except where the Bobcat fire burned.

View from the benchmark looking out at Pacifico.
View of the benchmark and the new stake put up.

I've always noticed that rock pile that is north of the 2 after you pass Three Points and wanted to go there. I manufactured enough peaks to make the drive out there worthwhile. I first started at Rosenita Saddle and took the ridge to the SE away from Hillyer. The first bump you get to is Peak 5,868 ...

Nobody mentioned the highlight of the hike, finding Cecelia's sunglasses. Nice to meet DN&M.

I decided to see what it would be like hiking a firebreak at around 80 degrees and see if I would like to do this next week. This ridge is one of the most iconic climb in the San Gabes. Everyone that does it says it is memorable and usually not in a good way which means it is awesome. It is famous ...

The change in weather is the biggest advantage to getting control of these fires. With the terrain, this fire will be smoldering for a long time but hopefully they can get a perimeter around it. Also just because we know the perimeter doesn't mean everything in that perimeter was burned so we won't ...

This is prime bighorn habitat, this may devastate the population after a great rebound over the last twenty years.

I remember the Mars Bonfire and George Wysup controversy. There was a lot of conversation about what constituted sumitting a peak as some HPS peaks required third class climbing. They were so worried about finishing lists and the conventional opinion was getting to the bottom of a climb was a summit ...

This guy takes it over the top calling destroying registers a crime. There are plenty of people that argue the registers are the crimes and have no business being in wilderness areas. The Sierra Club registers are bolted to the rock quite often. I don't care either way and most of these peaks named ...