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From an unusual source, "Westways", an AAA -- not an AARP -- publication:
http://files.me.com/emanla/nf3s85

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Very cool 8) . Speaking of historical Baldy images, I would love to see what the cable "handrail" along DBB looked like when it was intact.

Dave, I have a picture of the handrail in an old 1972 hiking book called, "100 hikes in California" by Don & Roberta Lowe. Maybe on a hike with you & Norma in the future, I'll bring it along to show you.

Terry Morse wrote:Dave, I have a picture of the handrail in an old 1972 hiking book called, "100 hikes in California" by Don & Roberta Lowe. Maybe on a hike with you & Norma in the future, I'll bring it along to show you.

Deal!

I love when the full moon allows the Mount Wilson webcam to capture more than the security light below the dome...

Here's a novel approach to getting the image that you want which might be of interest:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/ ... hd-videos/

cool! did it catch the Atherians on Baldy last night?

Another scan from the San Antonio Hiking Club's log book. This is the Upper Falls Trail above Sturtevant Falls - October 10th, 1920...

The crew eating BBQ dinner at Sturtevant's Camp after clearing the Mt. Zion Trail in Big Santa Anita Canyon. Chicken, ribs, beans, rice, corn-on-the-cob, salad, and cake. Pancakes and sausage the next morning. All paid for by hiker donations, packed in on donkeys, and cooked by volunteers.

???

WTF

That's the bottom half of a mannequin that I packed into Winter Creek. The mannequin was used by the owner of cabin #130, near Hoegee's Campground, for training new guys at his job. The owner of #127 had planned on cleaning out the crawl space under cabin and #130 wanted to have these legs stuffed under there, apparently to cause an amusing heart attack. The surprise was successful (sans heart attack), and I'm sure #127 has a retaliation planned.

People have asked me about the strangest thing that I have packed. This is the clear winner. He is loaded on donkey Bill, who died last year at about 32 years old. He was the guy on which you could load anything, but even he looks a little spooked (note the upright ears).

Rest in peace, Donkey Bill.

Yeah, that is a bit strange. It would be fun to see people's faces as they watch you take that down the trail on Bill's back.

I did overhear some comments, but they were all in Korean, so I don't know what they said... I have nicknamed the Winter Creek loop the "Hoegee Min Trail"

PackerGreg wrote:I have nicknamed the Winter Creek loop the "Hoegee Min Trail"

Mike "The Fiddler" Pauro and his cabin/crossing...

Nice 1 PG - I would love to see more and more pics of the cabins in the Big Santa Anita canyon - particularly the ones along the Lower Winter Creek trail. Must be verrrrrrry interesting living in those cabins.

@ Outwhere: somewhere I have photos inside cabins #130 & #138 (old computer, CD,..?) in Winter Creek. I will try to find them. The old computer also may have photos inside #'s 115, 116 & 117 - also Winter Creek, just above Roberts' Camp.

Here are some of cabin #62 across form Fern Lodge, on the way to Sturtevant Falls. This cabin is owned by Glen Owens, president of the Big Santa Anita Historical Society and publisher of most of John Robinson's books. If you put a flashlight up under the kitchen sink cabinet, you can see a board that is inscribed by the lumber mill directing the load to be delivered to Charley Chantry's pack station in Sierra Madre!

Front of the cabin:


Living room looking out:


Living room looking in (I really didn't want to know about the basket chair):


Fireplace:


Chairs & Cuckoo clock:


Propane fridge & crank phone (both operational):


Counter & bedroom:

Cool vintage stuff! Is that refridgerator gas or electric? Does that old phone still work?

Thanks for the pics!!

HJ

Oh man, I can smell the apple pie on the windowsill as I type, hope the bears dont!

More charming than I ever imagined... lighting that up that fireplace on a rainy winter day, that would be a treat.

Thanks a ton for sharing those pics PackerGreg - I always wondered what the inside of some of those cabins look liked.

Then on top of it, there's a bit of John Robinson/Glen Owens history to it all - fantastic! Glen did a splendid job with that cabin - it's really got a feel to it...

Only problem with the pictures - I want MORE! [greed can be a bitch sometimes]

Tonks again...

Jim,

The fridge is an old Servel (brand) from the 1950's that runs on the propane that the donkeys pack in, and in the old days they used butane. Many of the cabins have these, although some are "newer" like you would find in an RV. The crank phone does work and it is connected to the other cabins, as well as Sturtevant's Camp and Adams' Pack Station. The phone system is thought to be the last of its kind in the US, after a town in Maine got "real" phones around 1985. The phones are a ten-mile party line where anyone can listen in. For that reason I dubbed it CT&T (Canyon Telephone & Tell everyone). The call boxes in BigSAC are also connected. One ring for the pack station (and emergencies), two for Sturtevant's, and three rings means everyone picks up.

Cool time-lapse of the Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/11673745

Deb Burgess, owner of Adams' Pack Station, holding her baby, Moonshine.

From last weekend's OCHC overnight just below the summit of Mt Baldy (not by me, by Elena):



Full size here.

Very nice!

Somewhere online I found photos of old trail signs from Big Santa Anita Canyon. These were the government issue before Glen Owens and the Big Santa Anita Historical Society replaced them with new etched stone tile signs in the... early 90's?

These would look good on the wall of the pantry inside my garage but, alas, I am not allowed to own such federal property; even if it would have been tossed in the garbage long ago. I wonder what ever happened to those signs?

It's a mystery where things like that go, isn't it? Glad you found those pics, um, on the internet.

HJ

I just found this.

http://www.cnsm.csulb.edu/departments/g ... ntains.htm

I've seen those - very cool! Also, a backdoor here on satellite images for the transverse ranges (including the San Gabes) @http://130.166.124.2/ca_panorama_atlas/page5/page5.html, as well as the rest of California (left column links).

Wow. It makes the San Gabriels look so small...