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Taco wrote: ↑Sean didja see the UAP whistleblower report from the guy recently?

Yeah, wild stuff. Nowadays I tend to agree with the debunker Mick West. He has some good stuff on the video footage too if you browse through his videos.

Thanks for the "report"? I keep telling myself I'll start writing my reports in Google Docs before copying them into Tapatalk, but I never do it. Thus, periodically I'll lose some text to the Trickster Demon of Back Buttons. But I've learned to at least periodically copy my text to the cli...

Don't be Phillip Carpenter! Are you saying we should blow off our fingers then? Back in 1917, young Robert McCain couldn't wait until the Fourth to blow off his fingers. He did it a full two weeks beforehand. Screenshot_20230705-093212-469.png (Los Angeles Herald, June 20, 1917) Of course if I had ...

A few years ago, the observatory had its hundredth anniversary of 'first light' on the beautiful 100-inch Hooker telescope. Very cool that you made the event. In 1917 the poet Alfred Noyes attended the first trial of the telescope. In the prologue of "Watchers of the Sky" he describes the...

At least five SAR groups are looking for him now. I was privately informed that SAR has reason to suspect that he made it to upper Millard Canyon, which means they have a huge area to search. Assuming SAR has walked all the trails within ten or fifteen miles, odds are he went or fell off trail.

On the 4th of July, some people blow off their fingers with fireworks, while others fall off a trail and die. Unfortunately Phillip Carpenter did the latter in 1927. Don't be Phillip Carpenter! Stay safe out there!


(Imperial Valley Press, July 5, 1927)

That would be my guess.

The Crystal Lake Visitor Center has reopened. Volunteers will be staffing it on the weekends. Anyone know how long it was closed?

Altadena SAR is looking for Albert Zisook. He was last seen yesterday morning near Chaney Trail and Loma Alta.

KCAL News mention:

On July 1, 1917, Jack Stoner of the International Mack Corporation drove a Mack truck to the summit of Mt. Wilson. His load wasn't any ordinary load. It was the one-of-a-kind, 100-inch mirror for the Carnegie Institute's new telescope. Stoner took on this responsibility himself, trusting no other wi...

That's hilarious. Half Moon Bay is a city, Mavericks is the surfing spot/beach. Looks like surfers named the spot after their dog, Maverick, or so the story goes.

That is so interesting! He doesn't go into why the renamings were happening. I wonder. After reading many old articles, it seems that there were two, competing conventions for naming things: man-centered versus nature-centered. Those oriented toward man, they preferred naming natural objects after ...

On June 30, 1921, a forest fire threatened the homestead of Ida Greenfield in Placerita Canyon. All alone, she tried to fight the fire with a shovel. The heat probably overwhelmed her and she unfortunately succumbed to exhaustion. Screenshot_20230630-080946-802.png (Los Angeles Herald, July 1, 1921)

On June 29, 1887, the Los Angeles Herald published a letter from W. A. Goodyear. Watson A. Goodyear was a well-known geologist and surveyor for California. Among other things, he's credited with the first ascent of San Gorgonio (called San Bernardino back then). And he was part of the California Geo...

...the frequency of accidents is proportional to the number of people who visit the area. I don't think this is accurate. What numbers are you basing this claim on? It seems to me that more people hike Baldy in the summer with less serious accidents, while less people hike Baldy in the winter with ...

Was there a heavy storm going on the day he disappeared? Yes. He went up in the middle of a series of winter storms. A woman died on Baldy the week before he went missing. SAR initially had trouble looking for him due to the storm. The storms were so bad that they didn't find his body. People don't...

I forgot to mention that now is the time to do the Crest from Crystal Lake, because the ACH closure makes it nice and peaceful up there. No traffic noise!

...it would be good to learn if there is some hazard or mistake that he succumbed to, which others can avoid. Don't go up Baldy during a winter storm. Based on early photos from West Valley SAR, I'm guessing he went up the Ski Hut Trail. He probably became disoriented in the storm, couldn't see shi...

Found these specimens south of Mt. Hawkins. Thanks to Uncle Rico for help IDing them.

On Sunday a few of us drove to the Crystal Lake Recreation Area. The place was packed with campers, not many hikers. Cecelia and I stopped at the Cafe for an Adventure Pass and hot chocolate. Then, around 7 AM, we joined David R, Uncle Rico and HikeUp at the Windy Gap Trailhead. It was a very pleasa...

Only a few days after putting prisoners to work on the Manker Flat Highway, county officers lost track of two criminals. Roy Brown and Bill Rich escaped the prisoner camp at Manker Flat on June 21, 1926. Brown was later re-captured on June 27. I couldn't find more info on Rich, who was still at larg...

Thanks for the report. I just tore my favorite backpack on a tree branch. What gives?

On June 20, 1886, the Los Angeles Herald reported that E.W. Giddings had claimed a peak above Millard Canyon. He raised his white flag presumably atop Peak 4704, to honor Joshua Giddings, the famous abolitionist. I think Joshua was EW's uncle, but don't quote me on that. Screenshot_20230620-144919-5...

This thread is for all your raven needs.

I met a Raven on a bridge,
He asked me for a word to pass.
Alas, the bird's now in my fridge.

In 1926, June 17th marked the start of the planned Manker Flats highway. The grand dream included a scenic motorway over Mt. Baldy, connecting San Antonio Canyon with the North Fork of Lytle Creek. Ultimately the project failed due to landslides. There were smaller issues and problems, some of which...

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Sean wrote: ↑I don't know the exact route of this trail. But it does sound like he was sending it close to Crystal Lake, as the lake is a source for the San Gabriel River.

Crystal Lake has no outlet, right?

That's right. No above ground outlet. I wonder, though, if it drains under ground to the north fork?

On June 17, 1915, Edith Wiley walked into the county courthouse and told a tale fit for the movie screen. With her mother, sister, and seven puppies, she rented a cabin in the Arroyo Seco. For their first night's entertainment, two mountain lions attacked the cabin, hoping to borrow some puppy meat ...

Girl Hiker wrote: ↑Do ants count?

You could start a different thread for ants.

I don't know the exact route of this trail. But it does sound like he was sending it close to Crystal Lake, as the lake is a source for the San Gabriel River.

dima wrote: ↑How's this?

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Is that a sand dune? What's a bee doing on a sand dune!