EISPIRATEN

RE: continue to Lk Hughes Rd, yes. It's a shorter segment, and probably boring, haven't been that way yet. More FS road continues east from Lk Hughes Rd also, connecting to San Francisquito Cyn near Jupiter Mtn. The trailhead on that side is at the Warm Springs Rehab Camp. What I'm trying to researc...

Two weeks back (14-JAN-2024), I did another "Lived here all my life, and never been to..." adventure. I'm hoping the trend picks up steam. Here's a short report with some pics. This was a bike journey, roads only, excepting that the route is 'going feral' and turning to singletrack in plac...

Nice shots, thanks. Looks like a super-mellow day. Is that a 'gate-crashing' eucalyptus in the middle shot?

It's possible by the next date I will have a suitable bike. Thanks!

Wow! I've seen some of your fellows posting on TrailForks the past couple years...crikey! Dig the format, almost a geocaching thing.

I've never been to Josh in the snow, but used to go every winter for family camp-out. Looks positively magical in the snow, even in the dark. Thanks! I suppose you could show the videos to someone and tell them you snuck into Area 51 to look for bigfoot's UFO. :) Long ago I attempted Olancha Peak, p...

re: "Make some vodka?"

Use those potatoes to make one glass of vodka, or plant them, and have enough for a lifetime supply?

Teach a man to be a fish...I think that's how it goes.

Whenever I pass a certain mile marker on the Mt Wilson Rd, I always think of math jokes, and who got that one, who instigated?

Ah, thanks. Will try next.

RE: the flick, true story, guy forges land grant deed, he and wife leverage to take over nearly all of Arizona territory. One of the best Vincent Price flicks, and a great non-stock western.

This looks like the kind of stuff that is incredibly important, and should have multiple copies archived somewhere, but...dang if I know what to do with it.

Did you ever see that old Vincent Price flick "The Baron of Arizona"?

The upper part of Pacoima Canyon, right below Lightning Point, was quite a magical area before the fire. There was a grove of huge incense cedars, nearly sequoia-sized, along the Pacoima Canyon Trail before it climbed south to Mendenhall Road near Indian Ben Saddle. Anyone who can smile like that wh...

Fall color is sslloowwllyy turning in the upper West Fork area. It's quite nice, though!

I made it up there today, but thought it unwise to burn anything. Jeepers, that's a long drive! I'm 818-based, so used Big Tujunga -> Angeles Forest Hwy -> Upper Big T -> CA-2 to Islip. The road has been resurfaced from (at least) Upper Big Tujunga junction to the easternmost of the Sally Saddles. C...

Congrats! Your super power is no sleep, eh? Hmm...

Half a mile from Tucson, by the mornin' light
One man gone and another to go
My, ol' buddy, you're movin'
Much too slooo-oooow

There's a guy who camps in one of the upper loops that looooooves his Styx. A few times I've been up there after dark, I could clearly hear some cosmic soft rock wafting through the oaks. "Come sail away... Come sail away! Come sail away with me, lads!" On the lower Islip Ridge Tr, there w...

You mean take into consideration elevation as contributing to how the mass is distributed throughout the mt range? I thought about that, but I'm not sure how one would go about the calculation...the elevations (as we all well know) are wildly variable throughout the mountains....hence them being mo...

If you manufactured several Centroid Detection Templates from different materials with a range of density and mass distribution, perhaps a better center point could be determined. You could thereby increase the chance of access, and decrease the chance of excess tiredness. Sounds like you're doing t...

I hope someone finds this hilarious. I was descending Kenyon Devore Trail, almost to Gab junction, and there is a freshly unearthed boulder in the trail. I stop to move the boulder. Fifty angry bees emerge from a hole in the ground...where the boulder had been recently...until some bastard bear pull...

Sean wrote: ↑I don't know when people started calling the bumps by those names. It might predate the internet.

Certainly before Internet. I knew those names when I was in Scouts, early to mid 1980s.

SoCal’s most scenic toilet seat on South Hawkins. AKA, The High Can! :) RE: Tree People, the original use of the moniker was applied to 'gate crashers' who would invade the forest behind the Greek Theatre to watch 'free' concerts. My parents were among the Tree People attending for Neil Diamond's f...

"Yucca can leave painful red swelling..." Hmm...good call. I've had similar mild reaction from a yucca stab. That's a delicate part of the body, and if you puncture a ligament or something not muscle, it can get very bad. Good luck, Anthony. That's 'gonna leave a mark' as they say. Hope yo...

OK, I'll see if I can allay your fears... It was worse! There were dozens of these things marching about all over the road, and possibly a second species with long scissor-like pincers. They were milling about like a bunch of robots with scrambled control signals coming through. My 'lobstrosities' i...

Here's a shot from today (below). There is an obvious 'leak' in the middle of the slide, and it looks like they are doing something, vehicle on a mound. The wall from the previous repair is missing/buried. The water tank reference point is upper left. The drainage to the right and above the slide is...

"I don't think we have scorpions around here do we?" I got bit in the back by one near Mt Wilson (sat against embankment) and didn't feel much at first. By the time I got back to my car, my face felt weird itchy-tingly. I looked in the mirror and it was classic puff and pink...scary! Drove...

There's much more on up the road, too. Many washouts, slides, sinkholes, cleaved lanes.

It's one of the bare patches in HikeUp's photo, right of center. The slide is in a western fork of Valley Forge Canyon, one ridge over from what looks like the more likely basin. The better angle is from the Wilson Rd between Eaton Saddle and the big cliff straight with stone wall. I was by there to...

After having a look from a distance (Wilson Rd), it is my un-expert opinion that Lawlor-Barley Flats segment of CA-2 is doomed. The huge slide on Lawlor that was repaired recently has re-slid and consumed the road again. It is unclear if the road and debris wall have left the site, or if they are si...

Some general notes on West Fork San Gabriel River as of 01-AUG-2023: 1) Water - It is still available almost everywhere. Most small side canyons have at least a trickle, and the West Fork itself is flowing well starting somewhere above Camp Happy Helmet. 2) Trails - Most have been worked recently, i...

Damn, looks like that trail's in the closure zone? It didn't occur to me that the closures were in part due to unstable ground. I always assumed it had to do with not disturbing the vegetation. The root systems often burn, leaving 'ant-hill' cavities that are a man trap. I almost fell in one up by ...

The 'Projects' menu on their website lists some things. Also, they are active on Trailforks, and posted a bunch of pics recently.