EISPIRATEN

Taco wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 6:32 pm “… after climbing among some of California’s most remote and daunting mountain peaks.”

Wouldnt it be great if journalists looked at a map once in a while?

Pifff, that would reduce their reports to actual facts.

Excellent detective work!

What a break to see the actual surveyor's notebook. Those sketches and the lettering are beautiful.

I took surveying many years ago. Our instructor, Mr Sands, a licensed surveyor, was very clear that notes had to be written carefully, completely and legibly, not my ...

They just are lazy af in these mountains and don't wanna burn the calories necessary to use their rattle.


But what happens to buzzing rattlesnakes? They get killed and the quiet ones survive. When I used to live and work in the San Gabriel mountains I used to say you'ed be mortified by the ...

I've scrambled through Devil's Canyon. It's no picnic, especially without a picnic basket full of food and critical supplies. I did it on purpose, prepared, within a day. Unprepared, it took Eugene Jo a week to escape the canyon's clutches. If that's where Monica ultimately landed, any number of ...

Another summary video by the Lore Lodge.

^ LMAO...

I haven't a clue what you're talking about.

Sounds like he's explaining how a Sasquatch crew planned and executed this kidnapping using social media and magic. I mean, that's the best theory I've heard so far.


Yes, magic...



This what happens when we assume .

When I mentioned ...

For the conspiracy theorists, the trail crosses a dirt road that might have provided access for abductors.

The life saving message of SAR...and the people against it, including Trump.
The grabbers in selected spots..they are devious. They planned and picked a meetup to interrupt. So if it were ...

There are so many possibilities, a slip down the hillside, a bump on the head, disorientation and wandering off in a confused state to collapse far from the trail.

For the conspiracy theorists, the trail crosses a dirt road that might have provided access for abductors.

The Fall Guy series filmed several stunts at San Gabriel Dam. The intro to the series that showed a white car going over a cliff was filmed there. A stunt driver drives a car off the quarry cliff and is lifted out of the car just as it goes over the edge, by a helicopter. At 4:55 in the video below ...

David R wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 9:19 am I used to get more gold when I panned as a kid at Knott's Berry Farm.

I did too, and in my third turn in line, they asked me to leave. Apparently they don't like people that know how to pan.

Someone has the fever and the only solution is more cowbell?




Nope, more pay dirt.

Regarding the trout: are they still there? Old newspapers have countless articles about people going to the upper areas of the East Fork and "catching the limit" within a few minutes. This thread says that humans fucked this up.


It has to be fishing pressure, the rivers have flooded annually ...

Anyone fretting about individual prospecting operations needs to visit the the rivers during a high rainfall when the river is moving large boulders down river, you can actually hear them grinding their way downstream, to observe how high flows rearrange everything in the riverbed. At the same time ...

Very interesting history. I wonder if they used more of the overburden rock from the quarry to actually build the dam. The article doesn't mention the clay and concrete core with rock rubble piled in steps on either side of the dam so they may have changed the design.

Speaking of rock quarries and ...

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/

https ...

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.