EISPIRATEN

Sadie wouldn't be so rough on you

Sadie is very appropriate for a sadist like Zé who tortures us with imaginary peaks like this that simply do not exist. I must say that Zé is quite handy with Photoshop. I hereby Christen his (ahem) "peak" Mendacity Mountain.

Problem solved. Next, please.

HJ

LOL.

Here's my version of Mendacity Mountain...

I like Joe's Photoshop better. It looks more rugged and extreme. If you're going to go to all the trouble of photoshopping something, you might as well make it look really rugged.

HJ

LOL. More rugged but mine has snow!

Ze has gone mute so I'll offer another clue. This pic was taken from the same spot as the one I posted above...

I know where that is.... but WTF is that wash down there? Where the hell is that? Things aren't adding up.

OK, so I can see Harvard, Wilson, San Gabriel, etc. off in the left distance, and I can also see Twin Peaks and Waterman off in the right distance, so we're somewhere in the Eastern High Country which would make sense given the terrain. HikeUp's second photo (the "hint" photo) is looking down into what looks like some severely steep front country stuff. That kind of terrain is terrain that I'd associate with the Cucamonga Peak area.

Zé's original photo shows three bumps in descending height as one moves away from the point that the photo was taken. I would say Etiwanda Peak, but Zé said that the peak was a USGS named peak, so it can't be Etiwanda since Etiwanda is a "local name" not an official USGS name. Cucamonga Peak, Big Horn Peak, and Ontario Peak don't look like the photo with its three bumps. Maybe it's Buck Point, but it looks too high for Buck Point.

Anyway, eastern high country is about as close as I can get.

HJ

Hmmm...it's not Etiwanda or Buck Pt.. The 2 pics I posted are from the same spot - honest.

Baden-Powell?

nope.

looking in the opposite direction of the original photo

Ross?

Or grasping a straws here, Timber?

HJ

nope

Burnham? hot or cold?

cold. I can see Burnham in the last photo

okay okay, here's the summit

Can't be BHR or another southern ridge on Baldy.... or can it?

Cucamonga Peak.

HAH. I don't even care that it's near Harvard/Lookout, it's that stupid rod.

TacoDelRio wrote:HAH. I don't even care that it's near Harvard/Lookout, it's that stupid rod.

You should change your screen name from TacoDelRio to ThokTheEloquent. Yesh.



HJ

another image of the summit

Lookout Mountain (Lookout Mtn #2 on the HPS list).

HJ

yes! finally

Zé wrote:yes! finally

Sheesh.

I had myself convinced that it was over by Cucamonga Peak somewhere, and I wasn't aware of route 2 until I looked it up. Dang.

Are the first two bumps in your first photo the ones I've marked as "D" and "E"? And the photo was taken somewhere around "C" or south thereof? I originally discounted Lookout because the bumps in your photo appear to be of descending height, and clearly bump "D" is higher than bump "C".

HJ

yeah seems about right.

What peak (no USGS name) and where am I?



HJ

x4688 Muir Peak from toll road

Those trees look familiar...

Zé wrote:x4688 Muir Peak from toll road

Point x4688, yes. WELL DONE. Most impressive. You definitely identified the correct peak, but be aware that the USGS doesn't consider that Muir Peak.

However the photo, while shot from a road, was not shot from the toll road. Hikeup correctly identified the location where the photo was shot from.

As usual, here's a little AcmeFu. "A" is point x4688 (the peak in the photo). "B" is the location the photo was shot from, and "C" is Muir Peak.

OK, so tie breaker: I was doing a loop trip that day. It took me a good portion of the day, perhaps 10 hours of hiking, maybe slightly less. Where was I going and what might have my route been? My entry and exit point was the toll road trailhead, and the point from which the photo was shot was on my route.

HJ

LPS considers it "Mount Muir"

looking at old topos, can head north from point B down an old road bed that reaches Eaton Canyon just below Muir's SE ridge.

Yeah, and I've always considered the peak at the end of the ridge to be Muir Peak. I was actually quite surprised to see another peak named as the peak. Maybe the USGS screwed up. Wouldn't be the first time.

You're basically right on what I was doing. I used that old road bed to drop into Eaton Canyon below Idlehour Camp. That old road bed is generally referred to as the "Telephone Trail" because there are the remains of telephone poles along it. I then proceeded up the creek to Idlehour and then took the regular trail to the Toll Road which I then took back to my car. Here's some AcmeFu of the route into Idlehour. You'll probably want to zoom in a bit on that. I consider this to be a much faster way into Idlehour. The crux of the route is from "J" to "K". The drop in is not for the faint of heart.

Top 1/4 of drop in:


Middle section of the drop in:


Looking back up the middle section of the drop in:


Last third of the drop in:


Looking back up the lower third of the drop in:


Never know what you might find back in those canyons:


HJ

where am I?