EISPIRATEN

Cool photo! Action shots FTW.

Went on a drive today to get out of the house. Pretty warm out there today.




Helped two of these guys across the road. One was relaxed, the other became aggressive when I tried to pick him up by the tail (supporting him with a wrench)



Cleanup on aisle six.




I typically pick up a bunch of trash where GMR and GRR meet. Sick of people just throwing shit down like it's their house or something.

Nice gopher snake. Why would you pick one up with a wrench? Was it a rattler?

It's a gopher snake?

I pick snakes up carefully because I know f-all about snakes. When you know nothing, EVERYTHING is dangerous! (This goes for most things in life)

The ultimate Ontario Peak ridge panorama:



Click on photo for more sizes, including 6842 x 1819 pixel original size.

That's a great shot of Ontario! I like the other pictures too. What did you use to photograph this?

Elwood wrote:That's a great shot of Ontario! I like the other pictures too. What did you use to photograph this?

I usually carry a Canon PowerShot A590, it fits in my pants pocket.

Panoramas are stitched together in Photoshop CS2.

Super cool, Simonov!

Cool Towercam weather pic:

Nice!

Here are some cool pictures of climbing in the Swiss and Italian Alps
http://teotaglia.com 8)

The Pickett Range in the North Cascades - Twin Needles first ascent
http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/5 ... scent.html

Most excellent!

Thanksgiving cruise on Glendora Ridge road at 1am:

Mazda RX8

It felt colder in the city/valley than it did up at 4kft. Strange how this works, I guess.

love the new board main page photo! yeah winter!!

One of Elwood's shots from his recent trip up Baldy.

Good choice Taco and excellent shot Elwood.

I was playing in Photoshop and photomerged two of the Baldy shots taken from the same location. Kinda' interesting results:



Convert to greyscale, adjust contrast and brightness:

Elwood,

Try duplicating the image twice (original, and two duplicates), change the blend mode of the top layer to "Multiply," and the second layer to "Screen." The results might seem a bit dark, so you can reduce the opacity of the "Multiply" layer. The result is known as a "digital sandwich."

Me and my sister (who now calls herself 'River') at Echo Mountain circa... well, it's obvious (1975?). We didn't take the Sam Merrill Trail. Our father and uncle made us climb up the old Rubio Canyon incline railway bed!

Great post, thanks. Interesting to see the faces of so many placenames: Charlton, Heaton, Lukens, Newcomb...

Roped up on Strawberry Peak--I love it! 8)
What a rich history we have in the San Gabriels. When I see these old photos and consider all who have gone before us, I sometimes wonder if there is a single square foot on the Angeles which has not yet felt a hiker's bootprint? If only tree and rock could speak--there would be epic tales to be told, I've no doubt.

Super cool, thanks Ze.

I'm gonna start the MORE!!! chant here and now

Can someone get to the Santa Anita Canyon Hermitage photo sooner than I can... woulda been fun to run into that character back in the day

i'll do more

perhaps i'll go chapter by chapter to make it a little more organized

As Zé mentioned, the photos come from John Robinson’s The San Gabriels. It is a nice book and I also recommend getting a copy if you are interested in San Gabriel mountain history. Robinson has similar books on the other two big local ranges.

okay first 4 chapters of the book

This is the book that covers from Soledad canyon to Lytle Creek...

Frank "The Hermit" Volvin in Big Santa Anita Canyon. You can see the cotton he wore in his left eye socket...



The Place family of Sierra Madre visiting The Hermit...



The cabins of Max Arnold & Frank Volvin in BigSAC - now buried by Santa Anita Debris Dam...



Photo from LA County Flood Control District of The Hermit's cabin in 1935 - after it was abandoned and before it was buried by debris from the 1938 flood...

Very cool.... thanks for sharing the sights & history.

More Hermit business:

Obvioulsy this isn't the local mountains, and its not a picture of me, but a friend of mine found this and neither of us know where it is but I thought it was cool enough to share. Crazy exposure it seems. Enjoy.