EISPIRATEN

Excellent work!

Nice danger worm pictures!

Friendly worms too.

The manzanita is a beautiful plant. There are, (Were?), some epic examples along the beginning of the East Fort trail to Iron Mountain/Allision Gulch/Widman Ranch trail.

CrazyHermit wrote: ↑If you listen close to that clip you'll hear me pulling back the trigger on a gun. That bear was veering my direction for awhile.

A bear has to eat, but not you. ?

I'm watching it right now, excellent.

Note: A bear has to eat too.

Wow, I hope he recovers.

As is so often said here, there has to be more to this story. With the canyon geography of the San Gabriels, there are not too many places it is difficult to find your way. Thanks for sharing the story.

Alternate origin of Carins, the Fae:

WTF...if you're smart enough to build a dam, you are smart enough to know that sediment builds up behind every single god damn dam in the world. Ask any beaver and he'll tell ya so. If someone builds a dam and doesn't think of sediment removal then expect that dam to fail 'cause that guy's an idiot...

HikeUp wrote: ↑He'd make his case just a teenie weenie bit more credible if he would stop conflating backpack tax and backpacking tax.

Still...I'm in the "go pound sand you f'ing moron" camp.

The tax author is would likely say, "Good point, we'll tax'em both!"

Let me be clear: taxation is theft. That said, whoever came up with this idea likely reviewed how the shooting, fishing, and hunting sports are (heavily) taxed to support wildlife, habitat, protection, and management. In most cases, the entire costs are paid directly from taxes on these activities a...

Thank goodness it didn't fall down the canyon, if not for that live oak and brush...

RIP Bill Ewasko

It would be interesting to see the location and determine why the original searches failed to locate the body.

When I was a little guy we lived in La Paz, Mexico, my Father built the ice plant there. Anyway, we were driving over to the Pacific side to Todo Santos and had a flat tire. My sister, who is older, and another kid her age, were playing while my Father changed the tire . I was running up a little hi...

What a climb, glad to see folks heading/pulling up that trail.

I really like the video, especially the various view of the peak in black and white.

Hey guys, it has been a privilege over the last nine years or so to be part of this small but inclusive group of hikers with an unhealthy obsession with our local mountains. I am hoping that this will not be my last post but I was just diagnosed with a terminal cancer and may not be around much lon...

Much admiration for those that fight the fire monster,

Another excellent video!

HikeUp wrote: ↑

Taco wrote: ↑Maybe california should ban fire.

Ban fuel.

Rimshot!

Another winner, thank you for sharing the video.

It looks more like a Western Fence lizard. Death Valley is outside the current range of the Gila Monster.

Whoa! The video quality is top level, excellent job!

"The best yet, excellent video and very "arty" the view at 14:06 would have made Ansel Adams jealous."

I think the compressor was actually a hit miss engine, e.g.:

The video was fantastic!

It's a small world indeed, thank you for sharing the story.

The small concrete building at 0:09 in the video is a stilling well for measuring the river flow. At 0:15 the cable car is used to measure river flows above 1,000 cubic feet per second. Many years ago I spent some wet hours in that car cranking up and down on a 75 or 100 pound torpedo weight with a ...

Good advice, well except the hiding part. ?

A knife.

On the next to the last floppy disk, "Disk error abort or retry"

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless ...

Trail to the Dawn mine on Iron Mountain?

Makes me curious as to when they changed the name from Rattlesnake Trail to Kenyon Devore Trail. I think it was in the late '90s after the trail's namesake had passed away? Nice profile of the gentleman for whom the trail was renamed while he was still among the living: https://www.latimes.com/arch...