EISPIRATEN

I have faith that collectively we'll find a great purpose for hiking the Ken Burton Trail. Maybe next year I'll go up on race day and hand out Eispiraten stickers to every biker. Thanks for the report!

Thanks for the report. It sounds like a cool ridge, and it's thoughtful of you to remember Zack.

I've added several of Lonnie's TRs from 2005. After hiking Whitney and San Gorgonio, he developed a bone spur and stayed away from hiking for over a year. This is probably a good place for me to take a break as well.

San Gorgonio Mountain August 31, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt I've been wanting to hike the Vivian Creek Trail to San Gorgonio Mountain all year, but something always seems to come up to stop me. Last week I headed up here only to find the permits were all gone at the ranger station's self-issue desk. I ...

Mount Whitney (14,497') August 11, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike Stats from GPSr: Distance: 21.35 Miles Starting elevation: 8,443' Lowest elevation: 8,376' Highest elevation: 14,498' Total elevation gain: 5,570' Total elevation loss: 4,976' I got a permit for the Mount Whitney Trail for September 15 ...

Mount Langley (14,026') and Cirque Peak (12,900') August 2-4, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike Stats from GPSr: August 2, 2005 (Trailhead to Cottonwood Lake Three): Distance: 5.53 Miles Starting elevation: 10,056' Lowest elevation: 10,032' Highest elevation: 11,119' Total elevation gain: 1,072' Total el...

Mount San Antonio (aka Mount Baldy -- 10,064') and West Baldy (9,988') July 28, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike Stats from GPSr: Distance: 13.20 Miles Starting elevation: 4,499' Lowest elevation: 4,499' Highest elevation: 10,046' Total elevation gain: 5,108' Total elevation loss: 5,061' I had planned t...

Tahquitz Peak (8,846') July 14, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike Stats from GPSr: Distance: 8.77 Miles Starting elevation: 6,593' Lowest elevation: 6,466' Highest elevation: 8,818' Total elevation gain: 2,038' Total elevation loss: 2,248' I really wanted to head into the San Gorgonio Wilderness to finis...

San Jacinto Peak June 8, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt After reading Wingding's report on the San Gorgonio Backcountry Bulletin Board about her hike to San Jacinto Peak the previous weekend, I decided to go up there myself. There was a little more snow there than I was expecting, but that just made the tr...

Turtlehead Peak May 4, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike Stats from GPSr: Distance: 4.67 Miles Starting elevation: 4,352' Lowest elevation: 4,206' Highest elevation: 6,299' Total elevation gain: 1,849' Total elevation loss: 1,958' (Those numbers don't add up! The difference between the lowest and highest...

Old Mount Emma and (new) Mount Emma April 20, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt Ashley was finally ready to tackle a decent hike, so we headed to the Emmas, a couple desert peaks near Palmdale. I had done these two before, but they were new to Ashley. To make things a little different for me, I took a differe...

Mount Wilson April 14, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt I was sick most of the past week so Ashley and I didn't get any local conditioning hikes in until the day before. She was still a bit slow on that four-mile trek through Griffith Park, so I decided to do another main hike without her, and I headed to Si...

Rabbit Peak #1, Granite Mountain #1, Round Top and Iron Mountain #3 April 6, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt I've created a monster! Well, that's what my track looks like when plotted on the map, anyway... I had originally planned to hike Mount Emma and Old Mount Emma again, adding a couple more peaks to As...

Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe February 3, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt This hike took us through some of the Los Angeles area's history as we climbed Mount Lowe, passing through Echo Mountain, the Mount Lowe Trail Camp and Inspiration Point. All of these sites were made famous by Professor Thaddeus Lowe, ...

Manzanita Mountain February 1, 2005 By Lonnie DeCloedt I know it may seem like we haven't been hiking much lately, but Ashley and I have been keeping ourselves busy with our usual after work hikes in Griffith Park, the Verdugo Mountains and Runyon Canyon. I just don't document those since we do them...

Tom Kenney wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:27 pmI suppose you could show the videos to someone and tell them you snuck into Area 51 to look for bigfoot's UFO.

Oh, I forgot that we actually bumped into Bigfoot in the canyon. Here's photographic proof.
We said hi but he ignored us and kept walking.

JakubRZ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:12 pmWas that your gear I found?

No, but apparently Idlehour is where you go to abandon gear. I hauled a bunch of stuff out of there a few months ago.

The Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree warms the soul, except when you're stuck in a snow storm in the middle of the night. Then it freezes the soul. But we escaped alive, and started fresh in the morning. While Cecelia tried to sleep in the car, I walked around the Park entrance and enjoyed the su...

On Saturday Cecelia and I drove to Joshua Tree in the afternoon. IMG_20240106_152427588_HDR.jpg She wanted to see the famous sculptures, Simi Dabah and Transmission, along Sunfair Road. IMG_20240106_155305825_HDR.jpg IMG_20240106_161938709.jpg I wanted to bag Quail Mountain, the highest summit in Jo...

Thanks for the report. Idlehour is like a second home to me now. I've taken the Telephone Trail many times, and put work into it too. But I haven't gone that way in awhile. The waterfall down there is called Hildur Falls, named by one of the original cabin owners.

Thanks for the report. Cecelia and I were out in the wind too. Pretty nasty right now.

Thanks for the report. That's more colorful than I've ever seen a hike to Potato. Should we have a forum hike to Potato where we ascend some stupid way and leave pirate-themed spuds on the tank?

I added four of Lonnie's TRs from 2004. The WayBack Machine saved partial content for a few other hikes that year, but not enough to create a satisfying reproduction of Lonnie's gallery-based reports. After I'm done with years 2005-08, I will reconsider the miscellaneous material and possibly publis...

San Bernardino Peaks October 6, 2004 By Lonnie DeCloedt I hadn't been in the San Gorgonio Wilderness for a little while, so I headed up there to take the Forsee Creek trail to San Bernardino Peak East (10,691'), San Bernardino Peak (10,649'), and if I had time (I didn't) Anderson (10,840') and Shiel...

Mount Langley Attempt August 24-25, 2004 by Lonnie DeCloedt Hike stats from GPSr: Leg 1 (Trailhead to Cottonwood Lake Four) Distance: 5.95 Miles Starting elevation: 10,030' Lowest elevation: 10,030' Highest elevation: 11,110' Total elevation gain: 1,240' Leg 2 (Cottonwood Lake Four to Mount Langley ...

Cirque Peak Attempt August 11, 2004 by Lonnie DeCloedt Hike stats from GPSr: Distance: 10.0 Miles Starting elevation: 9,963' Lowest elevation: 9.910' Highest elevation: 12,023' Total elevation gain: 2,186' Sierra Nevada Mountains (Golden Trout Wilderness) 20040811 Topo.jpg It had been a while since ...

dima wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:31 pm Nice! I've wondered about that ridge above Royal Gorge. Can you see down into the river from there? Is there any sense you're above a "gorge"?

Yes, you can look down into it from the trail. It's very steep around that section of the ridge.

Mount Baden-Powell June 11, 2004 By Lonnie DeCloedt Hike stats from GPSr: Distance: 8.24 Miles Starting elevation: 6,647' Lowest elevation: 6,647' Highest elevation: 9,347' (Normally it's much more accurate than this!) Total elevation gain: 2,556' 20040611 Topo.jpg I noticed Angeles Crest Highway wa...

Madison, Jeff and I celebrated the new year with a hike to Peak 3221, which is near Switzer, off the Gabrielino Trail. Lizzie Miller, in her 1895 book The True Way, referred to it as Burnt Peak. Lizzie Miller - The True Way page 213.jpg Based on minimal scouting, I thought we'd encounter a quarter-m...

I was just wondering because I went up the Sunday before. :lol: I left an Eispiraten sticker under one of the two rocks on the summit as a little gift but apparently it must've blown away. I noticed a few prints when we initially hit the ridge but figured they were from hunters. I didn't notice roc...