EISPIRATEN

Great trip report. I have been thinking about doing a portion of that road on a biking camping trip. We have recently been to Lightning Point and Mt. Pacifico campgrounds and Messenger flat, and all three of them survived the fire and are in great shape. One correction: where Santa Clara Divide Road...

Jane and I visited this site today and found the ruins of the cabin. It was a little farther north and east of what you said: Outhouse, I presume, was at 34 21 9.86 by 117 55 28.302 Main cabin 34 21 10.398 by 117 55 27.648 Some weird mechanical contraption in front of the cabin by some yards: 34 21 ...

I will work on that, and post it some time soon, it is in several files. What are you most interested in: the canyoneering rappelling routes, the hiking routes that don't require rope, both, hiking from Vogel & Stoneyvale, hiking from the 2 or the fire road?

Perhaps some day we will do that. We just hiked up there last weekend to see if we could discover where his error was exactly. I think it was a fork in the road where a tree had fallen over the correct fork to take, and the clear fork was the wrong way to go, but the trail/road still looked very goo...

Thank you for your kind words. We are very concerned about the safety of that trail between Stonyvale and Grizzly Flat. Only 2 weeks before Ertug went missing we were talking to the USFS volunteer coordinator to find out how we might help do some much needed maintenance on the trail. I think this un...

If it is any consolation to anyone, he died in what I consider to be one of the most beautiful places in the Angeles Forest. I have often looked up at that exact place and said to myself, "this is a very beautiful canyon." https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/gallery.myff.org/gallery/135...

We discovered his body in Vasquez creek about 2/3 of the way down, below 4 or 5 waterfalls that one usually needs to use a rope to descend safely and above the last two waterfalls which absolutely need a rope to descend safely. He was missing one shoe and his glasses. May he rest in peace. After exp...

It appears he is not a canyoneer. He arrived at about 8:30, contrary to some earlier reports (just spoke to a guy at S&R about this) so it's more likely he went on one of the trails. no he didn't leave an itinerary. some S&R people were dropped at condor today around 9 to walk down from the ...

Did a three day hike to lightning point and back from big tujunga. Trail canyon past the first major waterfall is quite overgrown, but a gps track led us up the correct streams to big cienega. I wouldn't attempt that without a good map or gps, as I was surprised by some of the turns. From big cieneg...

A hiker named Ertug Ergun (look it up) was lost in the vicinity of Stonyvale picnic area on June 17, 2012. No one knows where he was headed, but Fox-Condor is one possibility, so peer over the edge on some of those precipices and see if you can find him. We and Search & Rescue have covered the r...

waste deep Nice typo! Just to the west is silver creek and the next one over we've nicknamed "silver on the side" because it's between silver and suicide. In silver on the side, we found a pot garden in 2007, which included a 3 foot tall mountain of human poop right in the creek bed, so &...