EISPIRATEN

Awesome story, there are many good people in this world.

The phone number insert is probably a grid idea. Many years ago I lost a wallet in the woods between Arrowhead and Arrowbear. The following week I canceled my CCs, spent two hours in line at the Baldwin Park (I think) DMV getting a ...

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Someday you might want to visit another wreck on the Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra.

Final Flight: The Mystery of a WW II Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra
by Peter Stekel

"In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in ...

Taco wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:08 pm No, I don't think it's warranted. It's government overreach. On top of that, it's overreach mandated by people who don't know a damn thing about nature...

Bravo! I could not agree more.

Sean wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:03 pm

Gene wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:55 am Door camera and cellphone video:

https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1878472127113826624

I figured out their address but won't reveal it here. It appears their house survived based on the high-res aerial imagery.

I hope so.

Door camera and cellphone video:

https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1878472127113826624

Mental endurance is a very real thing. I used to ride many century bike rides, both 100 miles and metric 100k rides. Before attempting my first 100 mile ride another member of my local bicycle club cautioned me not to watch the mileage on my speedometer as most century rides could never be exactly ...

it's not surprising, sadly, we all know what happens to rattle snakes that give you a warning to back off.

Thanks for such a detailed post of a great walk. Captions on the pictures are especially appreciated, well done!

Just in case...

Deconstructing 'Myths About Suicide'

https://www.npr.org/2010/04/28/126365907/deconstructing-myths-about-suicide

There are many myths about suicide: that it's an act of selfishness, that it's cowardly, that it's just a cry for help.

Psychologist Thomas Joiner has studied ...

This tree got a little confused about which way is up at some point (Clear Creek - San Gabriels).
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This looks something like a Cherokee Trail Tree sometime found in the South East.

https://relicrecord.com/blog/cherokee-trail-trees/

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A poignant vist to the cemetery at Manzanar. A few years back we visited the museum there. They had a display of log books of the incarcerated. and there it was, the name of of best friend's Father's family.

Easy as pie to explain.

Girl Hiker wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:59 pm I miss seeing the banner and the easy access of the most recent posted hikes. When will it be available?

Click on the "Quick Links" There is a "New Posts" link.

Because of the antenna tower, I'm guessing the shack is an abandoned amateur radio repeater.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Excellent, I'm watching the video as I type this.

Allison Gulch is a tough walk. The last time I did a hike to those falls a rock fell off the top just as I stepped back, it landed where I was standing. It was my last solo hike.

CrazyHermit wrote: I have a major scratch in the viewfinder from those beaver teeth. But I was noticing the same thing about their fur. Marmot coats might be the next thing.

I was thinking the same thing about a Marmot coat but feared the pitchforks and torches of the animal rights people. LOL

The Marmots have some really nice fur. I get the feeling they expected the camera to be edible.

i am curious, is radio silence after suicide SAR protocol, or media protocol? or..?
There's a whole science devoted to reporting on suicide. You could google it and find websites and articles. I don't know what the various protocols are for various media and SAR groups. I'm sure it's a difficult ...

On the topic of suicide, one of my sons and his buddy found the boys Father after he committed suicide. Needless to say, it left a mark on both boys. I knew the Father and was angry with him until I heard an explanation of suicide on NPR, Regardless of your politics, it's a great discussion ...

I had the pleasure of driving a restored 1915 White truck. Hats off for getting that mirror safely up Mt. Wilson. The truck had only rear brakes, mechanically operated. The brakes were so grabby they caused the truck to skid when lightly applied at very low speed on the slick concrete of a gas ...

Great video, going someplace I'd be happy to visit after just a few thousand more years of erosion. ?

Some really interesting erosion patterns.

The LA County Public Works operates the dam. The Forrest Services says you cannot fish in the reservoir here:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/ ... rdb5318019

"No fishing is allowed in Morris, Cogswell, Big Tujunga, Pacoima, or Bouquet Reservoirs." but nothing about visiting. I'm guessing ...

It would be a very "tough" world without tungsten cutting and machine tools and it would be mpossible to do any TIG welding without tungsten electrodes.

Fun to watch, but while watching my back wispered, "Try that once and I'll make you wish you were dead."

Not sure about today, but that block building used to house a water flow instrument and radio.

CrazyHermit wrote: LOL, thanks. Never again though. Makes me lean to the right every time I watch it.

Exactly!

Another epic adventure!

Typically, debris, i.e., other than silt and sand, are not included in the sluice gate flow. Sluice gates have a set of bars, called a trash rack, that catch the debris for removal during a slicing operation. The silt would be slushed out of the LA Basin into the ocean, where it actually belongs.

So they let the sluice gates get buried and now they can't remove enough sediment to make them work again? Is that what's going on?
No, that would help them operate, but they are usually hydraulically operated using a remote pump system. The government cannot stand the uproar of silting up river ...