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Alice in Wonderland house?
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Stoddard summit
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Baldy from Stoddard Peak
Since I started early, most of the road was in the shadow of Ontario Ridge, making it cold. In a few more miles, the road became overgrown and shrunk to a single track. It also lost elevation continuously from Stoddard Flat to the base of Frankish. There was a cairn marking the use trail up Frankish. The use trail eventually merges with another dirt road that winds around Frankish. That road leads to the top, but I took a steep firebreak that was more direct.
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Broken gate buried in dirt on the way to Frankish
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Ontario and Cucamonga from Frankish. The pano doesn't capture how dominant Ontario is from this vantage point. It looked gigantic.
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Hazy view of the Inland Empire from Frankish
I found a use trail heading out to Spring Hill on the way back. I was surprised to find a metal pole with what looked like a tin foil flag, and an unusual LA County benchmark. After looking at it, it apparently marks the boundary between LA County and San Bernardino County. It was a lucky Friday the 13th after all. The peak of Spring Hill was still almost 0.2 miles away and I was energized about finding something. The use trail faded and I followed animal trails until those faded, and the last 200 feet was just nasty bushwhacking. I was disappointed to get to the small summit clearing and find a steaming cup of jack squat.
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Burned tree, start of use trail with Spring Hill in background
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Pole and benchmark on the way to Spring Hill
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Boundary benchmark between LA and San Bernardino Counties
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Disappointing Spring Hill summit
Full report:
http://ironhiker.blogspot.com/2013/12/s ... -hill.html
I made a custom Google Map of all my hikes linked to trip reports:
http://ironhiker.blogspot.com/p/map-of-all-hikes.html