EISPIRATEN

I'm glad to see that the beer bottle opener is still attached to the tree.

It's their mating season. The hills are alive with giant, horny spiders.

The bad thing about being in Florida vs. California is the extra travel expense to get to the Sierras (or Death Valley): plane tickets and vehicle rental. So, I try to plan everything in advance to get the most bang for the buck. I tend to be ambitious about what we can do. That way, we can adjust o...

We were in June Lake at the end of August. The smoke was not bad. It was clear until late afternoon when a little haze and smoke smell would drift in. Coming from flat Florida, we didn't try anything strenuous. On the first day, we went to Yosemite to hike the Pothole Dome trail to the Tuolumne Rive...

Oh, anybody got experience with these tickets? I can ignore it, right? There're no facilities at that trailhead I got one once in Icehouse Canyon in spite of having the hang tag displayed. Cue up Three Blind Mice. I took a picture of the tag and mailed it in asking to have the citation cancelled. I...

Thanks for the pictures and the report. It's such a beautiful area. At least the trails you hiked look clear. We are scheduled to be in June Lake in 10 days. Hopefully, it won't be too smokey.

Any altitude sickness issues? Mosquito Flats is the highest trailhead in the Sierra, 10,250'.

There was a sword attack on Mt. Baldy back in 2008. See here:

https://manofstraw.wordpress.com/category/mount-baldy/

JeffH wrote: That time from the log bridge crossing to the Portal takes forever.

It's the longest part of any trail in the history of trails.

Super pictures. Thanks for posting. I just can't get enough of the Sierra. We will spend some time in June Lake in a few weeks if the fires don't get too bad.

I agree with Tom. We always took three aspirin before heading up Whitney.

Gingko has worked for us as well. We start taking it about a week ahead. The dose is whatever the label says. As for energy, there is always carbo loading.

DC is only about 60 miles to the closest point on the Appalachian Trail.

Cloud's Rest is a classic Yosemite hike. Thanks for posting the pictures. By the way, when we did the hike, it was a drought year. Most of the little creeks had dried up. But, the unnamed lake still had plenty of water.

Years ago, I worked with a fellow who had a nephew living on Prince William Sound. The nephew always carried a handgun when he took his garbage out just in case.

Thanks for sharing an area that many of us will never see. Were those grizzly bear prints? Did you carry pepper spray?

It has been many years since we did the Golden Canyon - Gower Gulch loop. The "no trail" signs are more recent. The hills were all being marred by use trails which spoil the view from Zabriskie Point. I imagine that the signs are trying to keep the ridge lines more pristine as well as prev...

If you don't get lucky in the permit lottery, you can always try for a "no show" permit at the visitor's center south of Lone Pine. Unclaimed day hike permits are handed out the day before and overnight permits the morning of. If more people want a permit than are available, then a mini-lo...

girlhiker70 wrote:

HikeUp wrote:I hate tap-a-crap

I second that!

Tap-A-Talk is certainly an awkward, non-intuitive interface even if it is free.

What about https://www.phpbb.com/ used on the Mt. San Jacinto board? It claims to be free. Of course, somebody would have to handle the migration.

Really nice pictures. Thanks for posting. I never made it into Black Star. I always heard that some locals never accepted that the forest service had an easement for public access.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of the grow operations now that pot is legal. The end of Prohibition put the moonshiners out of business.

Brings back memories. Some of these posters have not been here in several years.

I just leaned from the WPS board that Fred Beckey passed. The New York Times published this obituary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/obit ... .html?_r=0

That is just crazy wild.

Elon Musk (Tesla head) says A.I. is a bigger threat than North Korea. What if he is right?

I keep thinking about the case of the French couple who died in the White Sands summer heat a couple of years ago. Only their young son survived because they gave him extra water. The parents died apparently without realizing what deep trouble they were in. The son said his father kept telling him &...

That is one super report. Thank you.

We spent 4 days hiking around Mammoth Lakes. We had been there only once before in 2008 when we visited the Devil's Postpile. Our first day, we did a light hike to Rainbow Falls to get used to the altitude. The San Joaquin River is flowing from right to left in this view. At the left side is the bri...

Everest is its own game. Anyone who has the time and money to go there knows perfectly well that they could die. Either they think "it won't happen to me" or they knowingly roll the dice. Death Valley is a different situation. People who live in average climates have no idea how fast dehyd...

We watched the total eclipse from my brother's house in Tennessee. You had to be there. If you didn't see this one, don't miss 2024 that covers Texas to Ohio. Here is a picture.

What software is the Mt. San Jacinto board using? It looks more like the old MyFreeForum than tapatalk. If there is a cost, I think contributions could be raised to cover it.