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Earlier this year I dropped my bike helmet off Rim Trail in similar terrain. Spent about 30 minutes looking for it, and getting really sketched out. Not surprised re: the bee warning. The local bees are becoming more aggressive. I've been stung more times the past 3 years than I have my entire prece...

That observatory is featured in the Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle classic "Lucifer's Hammer."

That's a very compact typewriter (Mr. Gotchy's). You could troll the Phillips Point people by posting photographs of their sign placed at the end of a random breakwater, like Marina Del Rey. Whole thing smacks of the Mt Thoreau/Mt George Davis kerfluffle. I've sworn off Bob Burd because of that. EDI...

It crossed CA-2 late last night. iMTBTrails - Fire Season thread - Scroll to the bottom for some good/heartening news. Web cams on Table show unburned pines, so...fast understory whipper again? (fingers'n'toes crossed for luck!)

GRIBBLENATION is a 'road history blog' I discovered when researching the El Portal->Foresta Road in west Yosemite. Last night, while reading about the various routes through the San Joaquin River wetlands and Sierra foothills, I came across this: California State Route 190; a Trans-Sierra Highway t...

Start them young, before they realize what you're doing! :lol: I was 7 and my brother 5 when we did the Tuolumne->Happy Isles trip in Yosemite. Bear entered camp one night, parents each grabbed a corner of our tent, and we were rudely awakened by the dragging sensations as they ran from the bear up ...

Probably wrong time of year. You might try Aliso (Zelzah) or Limekiln (Tampa). Those are 'park' and have good trail networks, cross the creeks a few times, always have frogs singing in the eve. West end of Vanowen, the 'south fork' of Bell Canyon, might have some. There are huge water tanks on the h...

Yes, Palm Springs. It's not like this anymore! Also, well worth the long drive out there. You're geology buff, so might be interested in the 'vertical aerial tour' it affords, very spectacular canyon on the way up.

Scene is from the Columbo episode Short Fuse, starring Roddy McDowall.

#3 could be Sulfur Springs CG, but could also be Kennedy Meadows area, or perhaps the mythical California Pines . This one should be easy, a classic, sorry not San Gabes is only clue. I was here probably the same year they filmed this. Very cliche adventure I had: we went for the snowplay, I decided...

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I read a TR (bike-based) about this area, down Cherry Creek and up Tecuya Creek. Many bears were encountered, and a large desert tortoise. You got some great shots, really captures the variety of the area. Thanks!

I have no recollection of those markers, but Hogee's was our scout troop's (T28 Van Nuys) favorite weekend hike. I know I've seen markers like that before, can't place any, maybe someplace outside Yosemite? Sure beats fiberglass for durability and enviro friendliness.

Here's Bob Pickering's 40th Mt Whitney Summit report. You're in good company!

I've only done Baldy twice, via Notch Backbone and via Pine-Dawson Backbone. Both were overnight trips, and the drive was the most arduous part of the ascent.

Nat Fire Sit Aware - Their hot spot detectors show something in Baldy Bowl and something on Thunder right now (15:56). I hope these are backpacking stove review and false positive.

EDIT to add: Alert Wildfire Cams in that area - of which Bailey Peak is one

One Man and a Mule was not very popular. Apparently there was a problem with exhaust fumes from the engine. (Seriously, I think I read this in a description somewhere...didn't make it up.)

EDIT:: Here it is, near the end of the article: The One Man and a Mule Railway

dima wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 3:57 pm I CAN trivially make it url-like. Do we want that?

Is it possible to decorate the resulting link, so it looks distinct from a normal URL? Syntax is easy to remember, so that's good.

Very nice! 36.2379,-118.3749 - this is using Sean's example with text, link works but no text subst.

Looks like you ended up on the Fish Tank Loop , so named because there is an old galvanized stock tank at the low point, filled from a reliable spring, and the tank is chock full of goldfish! I found this when I did a near identical route to yours, but exited the canyon earlier for my death scramble...

Saw this driving back from Mt Wilson yesterday. It was the most gorgeous day in a while, marine layer broken (finally!), and I had a good outing. Get on the road home, and I see the smoke. It's been heavy breathing all day here, Northridge, south of Newhall Pass. It's also raining a bit of ash. EDIT...

Beautiful country, thanks! I used to go up there a few times a year to climb/hike/ride/fish. Grumpy Bear is very good beef jerky, available only from the KM store or by mail. The junipers, while not rare, are not common. Pinyon is the predominant forest at the 6k-8k level in that area, with jeffrey ...

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Did not know we had turtles of that kind. Makes me a bit concerned I've bee blindly stumbling around the streambeds.

Thanks for sticking with it and getting this posted. Sounds like you were pretty frustrated yesterday. Great pics!!!

I have watched the upper Yosemite Fall miss it's target all day due to high wind. Ron Kauk is the only thing I've known to flow up Yosemite Fall.

Foggy days up there are the best! Your focus shrinks to the tiny world around you, peaceful and muffled, colors all different, cooler greens. I saw some tiny parasol-like mushrooms up by Little Jimmy few days ago, dozens sprinkled on a shady slope: https://a4.pbase.com/o12/90/496890/1/174581599.6cQR...

re: "Has anyone ever been to Loomis Ranch?"

Not I, but I read a report from MTB Bill, used the Alder Creek Trail as part of a route. IIRC, the ranch itself is still private, and doesn't look abandoned on the satellite views.

Great stuff, thanks! Quite a mischievous grin you've got there. I was just up to Islip on Sunday (5/19), and noticed it's the same 2 spots on that section of CA-2 that failed...again. So, that's 4 major patch jobs that failed within 2 years of completion: 2 near Little Jimmy, 1 near Red Box, and the...

Looks like he had to abandon at Morro Bay. That sucks, hope he's OK. What a spectacular effort though.

I'd say "Break a leg!" but that hardly seems appropriate in bicycle racing circles. Good luck!!!

Yeah, I thought that, too, when I saw the pic. It's the same spot. They spent a lot, did a lot of work, and it's broken again. Last time it was so bad, the only feasible bypass was to hoof it directly up-slope and meet the road above.

Wow, variety! It's been such a great bloom this year. Wife and I were at Rocky Peak on Friday, lots of flowers...and lots of bees!

re: snow I did the long, long, loooooong drive to Islip Saddle on Saturday (4-MAY). Snow is the theme. Cloudburst Summit to Islip Saddle, snow is 40%-70% coverage from 7000-8000 ft/2100-2500 m on north slopes, and above that it looks continuous. I altered plans and doubled back to Chilao, which is v...

Wow, that is some nice work! Thanks. Looks like spearmint in the foreground.