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The old LA Flood Control District used to have cloud seeding iodine burners at various locations. I know there was one at San Gabriel Dam, I recall they were not very effective. Taking a wild guess, I wonder if ground based cloud seeding could be very effective effective with the inversion layer tha...

I don't think the big mountain cares either way.

Interesting. I used to sluice and pan for gold in the East Fork, mucho work and not a lot of gold. A great excuse to get into the woods. The comments to the article were really out there. Those worried about damage to the stream bed should visit the river at a peak flow after a good rainstorm. They ...

Thank you for posting this. May the crew RIP. They used those C-19s to drop water and fire retardant on forest fires. They used a large rubber bladder to hold the water and left the rear cargo doors open. The bladder had some sort of zip lock opening that could be operated by a crew member strapped ...

Does he publish his documentation? He does. He gives the history of the mine and documents the inside. On some of his videos he puts the general area (so in this case probably Mt. Mooney) but doesn't tell people how to get there or where it is exactly. Thanks for your response, does he have a YouTu...

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Joe_the_Hiker wrote: ↑Neither give away it's location

I'd like people to at least make a little bit of effort. Big hint: it's marked accurately on the USGS topo map.

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Wow how funny you should post a trip report about this mine. I've only seen info about it on LA gold mines and on one other website. Neither give away it's location. I've been searching on google earth for a while now looking for the shack. I have a friend who videos and documents mines in the San ...

Wondering how helpful the wheels were in getting this thing out to this steep trailless slope. I haven't been to that mine, however I suspect they used a highline to get that compressor set there. A cable is attached attached to a deadman anchor above the placement location and another at a landing...

Thank you so much for posting this.

Lots of changes since this trip:

http://socalhikes.com/2011/06/gold-doll ... in-triple/

This is one of my favorite Rock Python pix. Go Florida! https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/photobucket/i1118/albums/k601/benevole/dPeXW.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/1.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/SCw0w6PLujI/AAAAAAAAApY/j1zkfsVNfUs/s1600/snake+top.jpg Electric fences, keeping bad ...

Congratulations on your retirement.

I too am retired and living on that other coast in South Carolina. I grew up in Azusa and spent years hiking and working in the San Gabriels. Thanks to your posts and those of many others I have been able to (vicariously) enjoy the San Gabriels again.

I knew it was there, but never visited the site. I did hike over the ridge above and descend into Roberts canyon behind the Azusa stables (Now a housing tract). Some huge mountain quail took a few years off when they jumped up right in front of me. I was by myself and it was tough going getting down...

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing the link.

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑This Zerep company sounds like a bunch of real winners.

HJ

They should have named themselves: Slanimirc

Local politicians making money using public funds, imagine that! I do question the actual damage done to the riverbed. Any time there is significant rainfall in the San Gabriels the riverbeds are extensively rearranged. The extensive area grading resulted in the removal of habitat, altered substrate...

Enjoy it I did, thank you for sharing.

Brown's gulch is an interesting place. There are some ruins in Brown's gulch. They are downstream of the road crossing about half way to the spillway pond on the left side facing downstream. Further downstream there may still be some chunks of a VW that crashed many years ago. Myself and a neighbor'...

Slowest_Hiker wrote: ↑It does not look like the Southern California Legless Lizard that I saw in my yard. That one looked exactly like this example.

Could you see the underside? Could it have been a San Bernadino Ring-Necked Snake?

Correct, see: http://www.californiaherps.com/identifi ... ks.id.html

I cannot help but say, If you like your access to Angeles National Forrest, you can keep your access to Angeles National Forrest. Politicians rarely act without a political donor calling the shots. I don't see how more people can get access and not have more trash, graffiti and pressure on limited r...

Your first photo look likes it might have been taken close to the place hang gliders used to launch. They would fly down and ride the updraft above the quarry and land in the riverbed below the outlet works. Eventually they started flying all the way down to the mouth of the canyon near Azusa. Wow,...

GMR is an attraction itself, thanks for sharing. Your first photo look likes it might have been taken close to the place hang gliders used to launch. They would fly down and ride the updraft above the quarry and land in the riverbed below the outlet works. Eventually they started flying all the way ...

So it might all be about what they are excluding from 'protection' especially if this replaces the National Forrest and leaves those excluded portion open to development.

Two words: Professional Grade

VermillionPearlGirl wrote: ↑I predict this goes the way of other ANF transit projects -- where they spend a lot of money building it, until it crumbles, then they leave it there and walk away.

True! I can hear someone in the future say, "I found this concrete vent in a narrow little canyon, what the heck is it for?"

Why is it sad (unless that was sarcasm)? The guy was a husband and a father and what he chose to do was stupid and irresponsible and not representative of the ideals of his profession. He was an idiot, and now he's a dead idiot. These little "tragedies" make the world go 'round. I suppose...

If they ever start, mark my words, they are going to have huge problems with faults and geology. The study was conducted by Parsons Brinckerhoff, a New York firm considered a world leader in tunnel construction. I would be curious to hear from the geologist(s) associated with that $1.8 billion study...

bsmith wrote: ↑the toxicology report is back.

Well dam, that is so sad.

If a logical person was to look for a common thread in the responses, they would see a strong consensus: The facts as being reported do not add up. Period. Speculating as to which factoids being reported are true, vs. which is complete BS- is meaningless. G-I-G-O. (Garbage In, Garbage out) The guy ...

I know somebody who spoke with one of the Ventury County Sheriffs Deputies who was involved in the the recovery. This is second hand, but the source is solid, he said that the Deputy told him that they do not suspect foul play, and that Herdman was high as a kite. Autopsy is being performed today b...

That why it's called 'supposition' or supposing that this or that happened. At this point the only thing any of us knows is what we have read or been told by the authorities close to the situation. We also know there is just one soul that knows exactly what happened. I agree, people typically put th...