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20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:40 pm
by Taco
GREG?! Didya guys go? Brought some soju for ya.

Went up to meet Greg and his buddy, whom I told that Bear Creek might be a nice camping spot.

Killed time by going up this small peak. It's got scrambling up the southwest ridge, with some sections you can climb that go at about 5.2 or so, just fun easy stuff in trail runners kinda stuff. 5.easy, I should say, so I don't get my head bitten off. :lol:

Headed down, went to Bear Creek, and hiked up until I felt like turning back, probably 3/4 mile past the San Gabriel Wilderness sign. My goal was to meet Greg either on the way in or back, have a drink and eat some of their precious food, and shoot the shit.

And take pitures of Twin Peaks for some adventure climbing this Spring. 8)


NOTE: If anyone knows the name of this peak, or has ideas for a name for it, go for it. Might as well give it a name instead of the boring and depressing "Pt 3100" or whatever it may be. Or "Mini-Burro", which also kinda sucks.


PICS


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The small peak. Route goes up the ridge right there.

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From the small sub-sub-sub-peak to the south that overlooks the West Fork bridge. Big, chossy face right there is about 1,000ft high, according to Google Erf.

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Climbing up. This is the fun scrambling/climbing section. I encountered one move where I turned off and went through some bushes up a class 2 section. If I was roped, I would have pushed that move.

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Looking down

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Twin Peaks with what I call "Zebra Wall" below.

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Baldy

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Ontario and the reservoir

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The awe-inspiring summit. I'll put a register up here for those of us who enjoy obscure peaks.

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Going down

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This scree onramp is the way up and down. There are a few that work.


Then, headed down the road to Lower Bear Creek.

There is a sign on the bulletin board at the trailhead near the bridge that states that anyone on Upper Bear Creek Trail will be fined $5,000-$10,000 bucks and 6mo's in jail because of the washout!!!! My opinion on this is rather obvious, and I need not elaborate as to why this angers me so much.

A washout. SCARY STUFF. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Anywho...

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Looks like a fun, very small sport climbing wall. Only about 20ft high or so. I'd hit it. "Garbagecan Crag". I'm sure there's some sorta ordinance against bolts though, since grafitti is more important locally.

Blah blah blah, went up Bear Creek, and took photos of Twin Peaks for fun this Spring!

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Awesome. I cannot wait. FWIW, I am no planning on reaching any one point. I merely plan on going up to whatever point (or points) in the south and climbing up to whatever we can reach. "Adventure climbing". No specific goal other than to explore and document this area.

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The sign on the way back.

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Legs

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Water

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Another small wall that looked "20ft perfect", in automotive terms. Had some small crack systems that might go.

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HAH!

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One of the campgrounds

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Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:42 pm
by Hikin_Jim
TacoDelRio wrote:NOTE: If anyone knows the name of this peak, or has ideas for a name for it, go for it. Might as well give it a name instead of the boring and depressing "Pt 3100" or whatever it may be. Or "Mini-Burro", which also kinda sucks.
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The small peak. Route goes up the ridge right there.
Don't like "Mini-Burro?" Should I state the obvious? Burrito! Doh!
TacoDelRio wrote: Image
The awe-inspiring summit. I'll put a register up here for those of us who enjoy obscure peaks.
And of course for this one: Taquito.

I'm losing it.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:50 pm
by Taco
Badum CHING!!!!!

Hmmm.... Burrito Peak...

Going once! Going twice!

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:58 pm
by HikeUp
The whole enchilada.

It's above Hoot Owl Flats, so maybe Hooter Hill?

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:14 pm
by Hikin_Jim
HikeUp wrote:The whole enchilada.

It's above Hoot Owl Flats, so maybe Hooter Hill?
Well, it is about the right shape ...
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I say this strictly as a devotee of geometry.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:39 pm
by Taco
Hmmm... :twisted:

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:47 pm
by AlanK
Jim - where did you take that picture? Did you also meet them last weekend hiking up the Baldy Bowl? We didn't notice you -- no offense.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:11 pm
by HikeUp
How do these threads keep getting off topic? :wink:

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:50 pm
by Hikin_Jim
AlanK wrote:Jim - where did you take that picture? Did you also meet them last weekend hiking up the Baldy Bowl? We didn't notice you -- no offense.
That's OK, Alan, I didn't recognize you (in drag) either. :shock:

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:51 pm
by Hikin_Jim
HikeUp wrote:How do these threads keep getting off topic? :wink:
Hey, you got your topic; I got mine. :D

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:15 pm
by pilot
Hikin_Jim wrote:
HikeUp wrote:The whole enchilada.

It's above Hoot Owl Flats, so maybe Hooter Hill?
Well, it is about the right shape ...
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I say this strictly as a devotee of geometry.
Nature does have a way of creating lovely shapes...well that and doctors in Beverly Hills. But as a fellow enthusiast of geometry I say nature is still number 1!

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:44 pm
by AlanK
Hikin_Jim wrote:
AlanK wrote:Jim - where did you take that picture? Did you also meet them last weekend hiking up the Baldy Bowl? We didn't notice you -- no offense.
That's OK, Alan, I didn't recognize you (in drag) either. :shock:
I call it "incognito." :roll:

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:49 am
by 406
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I love it.
Is the tree shitting out the rock or is the rock fucking the tree?

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:25 am
by Hikin_Jim
I'm not even going there. :)

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:42 am
by Taco
The answer is yes. This tree knows no boundaries.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:05 pm
by AW~
Thanks for the pictures....looking forward to be back to bear creek.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:10 pm
by Mike P
Taco, what was the name of the campground in your pictures?
Thanks

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:59 pm
by Taco
Mike P wrote:Taco, what was the name of the campground in your pictures?
Thanks
Sorry Mike but I do not know. It is a mile or so up Lower Bear Creek. There are several like it, basically just big open areas shaded by Live Oak.

AW, do you know if it has a designation?

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:39 am
by AW~
I think its name is called Bear Creek (wilderness) trail camp. It is not a USFS maintained campground, but is used quite often by Boy Scouts, thus is in excellent condition. Im not exactly sure where it is...somewhere between the 6-10th crossing of Bear Creek from the WF San Gabriel river....about 1 mile or so from the West Fork SG river. Before this campground is another space that had a couple of tents, but its easy to spot the difference as one is a lot smaller, the real one is significant space.

There supposedly are 2 more wilderness campsites upstream. One at the WF Bear Creek and another by the Upper Bear Creek trail confluence. There was certainly a lot of space just before the WF Bear Creek to make a camp, but I wouldnt call it a wilderness campsite, more like just a super large boulderish area to camp out. Trail at that point was quite intermittent at best.

The only drawback would be the parking situation overnight, which soon it would be that time of year again for more break-ins. During the day, it seems to be one of the safest places to park, checked regularly for adventure pass parking violations.

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:12 pm
by 406
TacoDelRio wrote:The answer is yes. This tree knows no boundaries.
HA!

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:23 pm
by Taco
Got a mountain page up for this peak:
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... -2510.html

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:36 pm
by HikeUp
...be aware that lots of folks come up here from the city to drink, fornicate, shoot, and cause problems
Garden spot indeed. Sad.

What's even sadder is I'm nearly up to 200 posts...I'm going hiking...back later!

Re: 20080311 Mini-Burro Peak and Lower Bear Creek

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:24 pm
by Mike P
TacoDelRio wrote:Sorry Mike but I do not know. It is a mile or so up Lower Bear Creek. There are several like it, basically just big open areas shaded by Live Oak...
AW wrote:I think its name is called Bear Creek (wilderness) trail camp...
Thanks guys! I would like to do a through-hike backpack up to Hwy 39 someday as Chicken Legs was alluding to in an earlier thread.