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You have a really nice blog. Thanks for sharing.

No, I never worked at Turners. The guys who were big on hunting were, like me, computer programmers. They talked about Turners a lot. I think Turners sold some sort of guide to the hunting season timetable or maybe it was a free handout supplied by DFG.

The timetables for hunting season are buried in the Fish and Game website http://www.dfg.ca.gov/ , but you may need a lawyer to help interpret them. It might be easier to ask at a Turner's Outdoorsman store. I used to work with some guys who were big time hunters. I think the hunting season is gener...

I have never done this hike either. Thanks for the report. It will make a good guide.

We are not into ice and snow travel. So, we spend the winters in the Orange County parks: Chino Hills SP, Crystal Cove SP, and Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. For some reason, we have not hiked in the Santa Ana Mountains. A few weeks ago, we drove up Silverado Canyon to check out the trailhead and the...

This story from http://mtwhitneyhiking.blogspot.com/ Sunday, November 15, 2009 Kudos To Our Forest Service Volunteers As I traveled up Icehouse Canyon yesterday I noticed the spray painted rocks and trees were no more...we at least for a while. On the way down, I spoke with a couple of Forest Servic...

canoeman wrote:Just Imagine a ranger in the back country with his full gun belt, pepper spray, hand cuffs, gun, six spare semi auto magazines, baton, ticket book, and huge radio.

Imagine the Icehouse Canyon trail taggers encountering this ranger.

We did a 16 mile loop around CHSP today. It's mating season for tarantulas. We saw these two: https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/richardk.smugmug.com/Nature/Chino-Hills-2009-11-14/DSC03538a/713319197_ktHbG-M.jpg https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/richardk.smugmug.com/Nature/Chino-Hills-2009-...

I can't remember hearing about an adult death from a coyote attack. I have never seen a coyote in the ANF although they must be there. The Orange County parks have their share and sightings are rather frequent. A few years back in the inland part of Crystal Cove SP, we saw a pack down in a canyon fr...

There is a water availability report here

http://www.howlingduck.com/cgi-local/di ... er_data.pl

Fran and I visited Hidden Lake back in '03 when we wanted a light hike before doing Whitney. Navigation was easy with GPS and topo map. Hike the trail until you are due south of the lake and head north. We had the whole lake to ourselves. It is a real beauty spot. Nice report and pictures - thanks f...

What kind of license do you need to operate the unit? My fading memory thinks a Technician class where you don't need to know Morse code, but that could have changed since I last read up on it.

An astonishing physical achievement. Congratulations!!

Illegal motorcycle riders in a state park. Gasp!! Who knew that such things went on?
As for the pot farms, I vow to personally root out all of them.

Picture made February 16, 2008, east of San Juan Hill.

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We were short on time Saturday, but wanted to get a hike in. We did a 10 mile loop through the western end of Chino Hills State Park. It has recovered nicely from the fire. Most of the old oaks survived, singed but still with green leaves. At the western trailhead next to Carbon Canyon Regional Park...

I think this paragraph says it all:

Three weeks before the fire, the Forest Service issued a memorandum directing its Southern California managers to trim expenses by reducing the use of reinforcements from municipal departments and the state.

asbufra wrote:Isn't there an outhouse about 250 feet "uphill" from that spring?

So that's why the water has that whang.

Yeah, there is an outhouse up there, but I have drunk gallons from that spring at this point without ill effect.

A few hundred feet before reaching the Ski Hut, a spring flows across the trail in two places. The first is pretty thin, but the second has a good flow coming out of a small pile of rocks on the right side of the trail going up. The second is where we refill. I don't mind drinking water that comes o...

The spring below the hut and the creek beside the hut had a good flow on October 17. The spring water does not need filtering. We have been drinking it straight for years.

Wow! A near miss with a big cat! I have never seen a mountain lion, but I suspect that they have seen me. I wish I lived closer to the Los Padres. There are some nice hikes there. Thanks for the pictures.

Fire Weather Watch RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 956 AM PDT TUE OCT 27 2009 ...STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY AND TONIGHT... .LOWER DESERTS EXPECTED TO MEET RED FLAG CRITERIA BY MID MORNING TODAY AND CONTINUE DRY AND VERY WINDY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EV...

I found this article at http://mtwhitneyhiking.blogspot.com dated October 18. It's the first explanation that makes sense. I'd Like to Draw and Quarter the Idiot(s) I convinced my friend to go slumming with me up Icehouse Canyon. Little did I know I how accurate that statement had become. Both of us...

It is all about the steepness of the grade. Both gain around 6000 feet plus or minus. On Whitney, it's spread over 11 miles. On Baldy, it's only like 5 miles. It's a 10% grade versus a 20% grade. I can walk all day and all night on the flat and feel good about it. But a really steep grade whips me q...

Telescope Peak the hard way. What a monster hike! Congratulations!!

That's not tagging, that's the work of some asshat group leader. simonov - You may be right. Taggers don't make stripes. They do gang signs and slogans. Also, I can't imagine the average gang member hoofing it up that 15% grade all the way to the saddle. This abomination was done by someone there t...

Elwood - you do get out there. Good job!!

If the Marines poop out on this hike, what chance would I have??

There has been some graffiti on a few rocks at the very start of the trail - probably left by the non-hikers that you see at the creek. But, now some idiot has tagged the trail!? It would not do for me to carry a handgun while hiking. I would have to open a private cemetary to bury my own dead. What...

Happy Birthday Kathy.

Nice pictures - thanks for posting. We were at the lift when you were. Last Saturday, we parked at the bottom of the lift and walked down to Manker Flat to start the Ski Hut trail. That way, we are close to the car after descending the Devils Backbone and riding the lift down. As we were leaving the...