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Amazing pictures! You have to love the Southern Sierra.

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑OK, so when they replaced the spring box, they only replaced one of the pipes, is that right?

HJ

That is correct. The other pipe was under a downed tree.

Wow. That's really low flow. Aren't there two pipes? Was the other pipe equally slow?HJ At one time, there were two pipes. Unfortunately, a large tree fell over one of them during the winter of 2010-11. That pipe never produced much anyway. Then the other pipe dried up to a drip. Rangers constructe...

We hiked up to Kellys Camp today, 7/21. There is still water coming from the spring. It took 2 minutes to fill a 24 oz. bottle. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/richardk.smugmug.com/Nature/Kellys-Camp-2012-07-21/i-SC8Xd2Z/0/XL/DSC00535-XL.jpg There is a nice view of Telegraph Peak from this tr...

Sunset is a nice little peak. We enjoyed it the time we did it. Thanks for posting.

We missed 6 weeks of hiking due to crap at the house. (Anything that is not hiking is pretty much crap.) At any rate, we needed a couple of trips up to the Icehouse Saddle to get back in shape for longer stuff. I have never seen the trail so crowded. We were virtually never out of sight of someone e...

Taco wrote: ↑ I'm emotionally and spiritually drained. I'd really like to throw it all away and just leave, and go climb and explore and canyoneer and really live and stay the hell away from civilization and all the bullshit we've all constructed and accepted for ourselves.

I hear you.

I can imagine the looks you got from your girlfriend when a strange woman entered camp calling your name. Great reports. Thanks for posting.

Here are a few pictures of the Transit of Venus. I observed until about 5:30 at Fullerton's Mountain View Park when I had to bail. The transit continued still in progress at sunset. A number of sunspots can be seen as well. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/richardk.smugmug.com/Other/Transit-of...

Here are a few pictures that I took of the partial solar eclipse. They were taken at Mountain View Park in Fullerton. It was the nearest high point with westerly views to near the horizon. The camera is a Sony NEX-7 with a Thousand Oaks Optical black polymer solar filter. The filter provides the ora...

Everyone here has probably heard of the Germans that went missing in Death Valley in 1996. Tom Mahood of the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit developed a theory about the disappearance and subsequently found the remains. He has now published a facinating account of the event which can be found here: h...

I understand that the moon is in Uranus.

What is the difference between hail, freezing rain, sleet, graupel and snow? Thanks for posting the report and pictures. Here are the official definitions of your terms. Hail Showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 5 mm in diameter, falling from a cumulonimb...

For a current forecast, go to www.weather.gov and enter Mt Baldy,CA in the local search box in the upper left corner. They are expecting as much as 36 inches of snow over the weekend! I don't know if this will save the season for the local ski resorts. Here are the gory details: Tonight: Rain, mainl...

I carry an old Buck knife with two blades. One blade is smooth edge and the other is fully serrated. The blades can be opened, locked, and closed with one hand. Unfortunately, Buck no long makes this knife. I got a nice sharpener from AG Russell that is a wooden block with two ceramic rods. It will ...

Nice pictures and report. Welcome to the forum!

Last Saturday, we participated in the ranger lead Paleontology Tour in Death Valley. We were asked by park naturalist Charlie Callagan to not mention the location of the tour or to post any pictures on the internet. I will comply with that request because the area is too priceless to risk damage by ...

I have no problem with hunters who do so to put meat in their freezers. I once worked with two guys who were avid hunters. I ate some of their venison and elk. They would not kill a mountain lion just to have a trophy as a matter of personal honor and respect for the wilderness. One guy even had a b...

This subject has come up on the Mt. Whitney board in the past. As I remember, the first call should go to the county sheriff. It's the sheriff who has the authority to call out SAR. In the Lone Pine area, 911 gets the highway patrol who are oriented to traffic accidents not hiking/climbing incidents...

We hiked to Gilman Peak in Chino Hills State Park today. I found a cheapo (5 bucks!) battery for my camera on the internet. It actually worked. So, I was able to get pictures of two baby rattlesnakes. They were about 8 inches long. https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/richardk.smugmug.com/Nature/C...

At the risk of reviving the "Sierra" or "Sierras" controversy, this picture was part of the Tour of California route descriptions. It made me laugh when I saw it.

Super pictures! Thanks for posting. You just have to love Death Valley. It's hard to believe that 150 years ago the 49er's were struggling to get out of the place alive. Now it's a playground. By the way, check out Michel Digonnet's description of Bad Canyon in "Hiking Death Valley". I kee...

We hiked a 13 mile loop around Laguna Coast Wilderness Park today. Now, I didn't take my camera because the 8 year old batteries have stopped holding a charge for very long. I don't want to replace them as I am buying a new NEX7 as soon as production ramps up. The Sony factory that was making them w...

Richard, the argument of the plaintiffs in the above decision is that the FS has no authority under current law to charge "solely for parking"; and they, as the court agreed, make a good case as such. I have no idea what authority the FS has. The courts (maybe Supreme) will decide that qu...

Really not what it was meant for. it's not the USFS' fault on this, blame your elected politicans in DC. Yes, that is the problem. Instead of properly funding national forests, politicians of all creeds have cut their budgets and forced them to rely on the AP. There should not be an AP. You should ...

The 2012 Tour has another Baldy finish this year. The ski lifts are selling parking and lift passes for the day, Saturday, May 19.

Really super pictures! Thanks for posting!

Wouldn't it be nice if they checked things like vehicle break ins instead? Yeah, really. Break ins are so bad in the Palm Springs/Mecca Hills area that the guy who runs the hiking website http://www.hiking-in-ps.com said this in January: I have had several reports of cars being broken into and vand...

I have read the comments on the San Jacinto board about the Palm Springs tram closing early in high winds and stranding 17 people on top. It makes me wonder. What if you were riding the Mt. Baldy ski lift, summer or winter, and the lift failed in mid operation. How do the people dangling in the air ...

Would some kind of engine disabler or kill switch prevent this from happening again?